11/85Rank of Richard Nixon masks among the best-selling Halloween masks bought by adults: 1

Little Jack Horner Joke and Magic Shop (Boston)

10/89Estimated total value of the candy distributed last Halloween: $1,000,000,000

Ogilvy & Mather (N.Y.C.)

10/94Rank of Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon, among the best-selling president masks last Halloween: 1,2

Morris Costumes Inc. (Charlotte, N.C)

10/96Amount Disney spent last Halloween outfitting Tipper and Al Gore as Beauty and the Beast: $8,365

Office of Tipper Gore (Washington)

    Percentage of this amount for which Disney was reimbursed by the Democratic National Committee: 100

Office of Tipper Gore (Washington)

10/97Rank of Hillary Clinton, among the best-selling Halloween masks last year at Washington’s Backstage costume shop: 1

Backstage, Inc. (Washington)

    Rank of Bill Clinton and the Cryptkeeper: 2,3

Backstage, Inc. (Washington)

10/01Number of George W. Bush Halloween masks sold nationwide last year by a New York distributor: 15,811

Cesar Inc. (N.Y.C.)

    Number of Al Gore masks sold: 15,739

Cesar Inc. (N.Y.C.)

10/05Months that a Louisiana state judge was suspended for wearing an Afro wig and blackface to a Halloween party last year: 6

Louisiana Supreme Court (New Orleans)

10/08Percentage change since 2005, due to helium costs, in the price to rent a floating twenty-foot Halloween “scary pumpkin”: +54

Big Events, Inc. (Oceanside, Calif.)