Grapevine: Oct. 31, 1988

TRICK-OR-TREAT POLL. Card shops around Brevard County, Florida, a G.O.P. stronghold and home to the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral, are having difficulty maintaining their stocks of a Halloween card with a political tinge. BUSH WINS declares a newspaper headline on the front, while the inside * reads, “This is the scariest card I could find. Happy Halloween.” A version with the headline DUKAKIS WINS is hardly selling.