Mini Poll: Tricks or Treats in the City?
Current Totals:
What are your plans for Halloween?Stay at home and pass out candy: 44%
Escort the kids (or grandkids/nieces/godchildren) for trick-or-treating:
10%
Attend a Halloween party:
6%
Turn out the lights and pretend not to be home:
16%
Last minute canvass for the candidate of my choice:
3%
No plans:
22%
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If you were dressing up for Halloween, what style costume would (or will!) you wear?Something traditional, like a pirate or a cat: 37%
Something trendy, like an Avatar or Twilight costume:
4%
Something imaginative, like the Red Water Tower or an iPad:
19%
Something tasty, like a chicken leg or a grilled cheese sandwich:
2%
Something already in my closet, like a bridesmaid dress or sports gear:
29%
Something anti-social, like a mascot costume with a big fur head:
5%
Something complicated, like a two-person horse:
5%
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How many trick-or-treaters do you expect at your door this Halloween?Fewer than 10: 36%
11-25:
16%
26-50:
25%
More than 50:
23%
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If you have kids, on what night will your kids do most of their trick-or-treating?Wednesday: 36%
The prior Friday:
1%
The prior Saturday:
2%
The prior Sunday:
1%
The following Saturday:
0%
No trick-or-treating for my kids:
1%
No kids/No kids of the right age:
57%
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Will you go to a haunted house this year?Yes: 4%
No:
72%
No, not unless you mean City Hall:
24%
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Do you support the St. Louis tradition that trick-or-treaters should arrive with a Halloween joke or riddle?Yes: 73%
No:
15%
No, but: "What happens with a ghost who gets lost in the fog? He is mist.":
12%
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At what age does trick-or-treating become "unseemly begging in a sheet"?10: 13%
12:
23%
15:
49%
20:
8%
31:
2%
Never too old to trick-or-treat:
6%
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Should lessons about Halloween be part of the curriculum at public schools?Yes: 26%
No:
22%
No, and fire the guy who wrote that question:
51%
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Which of the following is the scariest movie?Psycho (1960): 22%
Night of the Living Dead (1968):
4%
The Exorcist (1973):
24%
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974):
6%
Halloween (1978):
4%
Alien (1979):
9%
The Shining (1980):
26%
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984):
3%
Paranormal Activity (2007):
1%
Cloverfield (2007):
0%
Zombieland (2009):
0%
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If St. Louis dressed up for Halloween, what character would we be?Chicago. We already have neighborhoods to wear: 8%
Cincinnati. We already have the red team uniforms and the whole northern industrial river thing:
7%
Paris. We already have plenty of fleur de lis and Frenchy street names:
33%
New Orleans. We already have plenty of Mardi Gras beads:
39%
Sarajevo. We already have plenty of cevapi and burek:
3%
Kansas City. Oops, too scary!:
10%
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Note: Due to rounding, results for some questions may not total 100%.