John McCain's Halloween nightmare;  "Trick or treat, it's Bob Barr!!":   Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr says Republicans are so afraid that he will spoil things for Sen. John McCain that the Republican presidential nominee is shadowing him, scheduling appearances in battleground states to match Barr's own campaign events.

 

"I suppose it's a compliment," Barr told editors and reporters at The Washington Times. "It confirms that the states where we are spending our time are really the critical ones, in which the gaps between Senators McCain and [Barack] Obama are smaller than what we are polling.

"The two states we just found out about today are Ohio and New Hampshire, where McCain apparently added stops to his schedule in order to shadow us," said  Barr, who in months past had polled in the high single digits in some states.

McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds dismissed the claim.  "This from the same man that also believed Borat was a Kazakh journalist," he said, referring to British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who interviewed Barr in the guise of Borat for his 2006 spoof movie.

It's interesting to note that "Borat" also interviewed independent presidential candidate and professional noisemaker Alan Keyes in the same movie.