What’s Halloween without a little politics? And with little more than a week until Election Day, you can’t blame me that I incorporated it into my jack-o’-lantern last night, when I joined my family to carve pumpkins.

Inspired by a recent Gallup survey in which President Barack Obama and former President George Bush were virtually tied in a measure of approval, my get out the vote pumpkin for 2010:

Miss him yet? Then volunteer in the waning days of the election, when door-knocking and victory calls are most critical.

(And yes, I did actually spend upwards of two hours carving that pumpkin. It was cathartic.)