What’s more frightening, Halloween or Trump being reelected? 

OK, that one was too easy. 

In the past month, I’ve met a lot of worried, apprehensive and/or downright scared people while working as a volunteer down at Democratic headquarters near Don’s Pharmacy. (We ran out of Kamala yard signs some time ago).

Many of our Dem visitors think “The Orange One” will get elected. Maybe he will, egads, but I doubt it. 

Their worries are largely because of TV commentators daily and repeatedly telling  us how “razor-thin” the Presidential race margin is. 

But having worked in and around  the TV industry for years, I can also tell you why I think this photo-finish, tired news angle has been ubiquitous the past few months.

It’s because advertisers and broadcasters want it to be close — or to appear close.

Do football fans stay tuned in when a game is a runaway for one team? Of course not. If the presidential race is seen as a landslide, Nielsen ad revenues plunge.

Don’t pay too much attention to the polls, which are always tight-appearing and notoriously inaccurate, or to commentators using terms like “horse race,” or “razor-thin.” 

It should ease your mind to know why the race has been alleged to be so close.

I’m with political commentator James Carville, who has a splendid track record for predicting political races. He wrote in the New York Times last week that Kamala Harris would win handily, and he explained several reasons why. Look up this story.

Worrying is not going to change this crucial outcome — that’s  what I’ve been telling the fretful voters down at Dem headquarters. Knocking on doors just might. And, of course, voting. And making calls.

I first became alerted to grandstanding, publicity-hungry and narcissistic Trump in Spy Magazine some 50 years ago. Spy referred to Trump as — I still like this term —  a “short-fingered vulgarian.”

When I saw the dreary Republican nominee recently trying to dance to gay anthem “YMCA” in a ridiculous spectacle, I thought, as many did,  it was time to take away his car keys. As funny morning radio personality Stephanie Miller (whose father was Barry Goldwater’s running mate) put it about Trump: “He’s made it OK to hate an old man with dementia.” Then came Trump’s bizarre, juvenile Arnold Palmer blathering. 

One of the funniest writers around, “Commander in Cheat” ultra-talented author RickReilly noted, “pro golfers do not shower together. Trump totally made up that scenario.” 

I will (kinda) miss all the late-night and other comedy that the clueless Trump generates. New Yorker clever headline writer Andy Borowitz, for example, posted this after one ridiculous Trump photo op recently: “Trump refuses to admit he lost McDonald’s Employee of the Month.” 

I kinda fear losing a buffoon like Trump and all the jokes he inspires.

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel, after “The Orange One” spoke to a women’s group: “It’s the first time ‘Groper Cleveland’ has been around this many women since they started unlocking the doors at Miss Universe.”  

Still, I know many of you are still worried about the elections next week. I admit the fact that one of our children lives in Canada is comforting. 

I do look forward to never or rarely ever seeing or hearing about Trump again. After he ineptly tries to steal this second election, that is. 

The worst thing that could happen to this clown with the cantilevered hair is not to get camera time or his name all over the place. To him that would be almost as bad as going to jail.

Hey, it could — and should — happen.

Political pundit/humorist Rick Wilson, a cofounder of the hard-hitting Lincoln Project, says that that while the Harris polling numbers are promising, the race is far from over. “It’s still going to be close in a lot of places,” he said.  “There are divided states where voter sentiment remains volatile. Trump is going to contest the election no matter what, but we’re guardedly optimistic with just two weeks to go.” 

Port Townsend humorist Bill Mann has had fun laughing at The Orange One for years. He’s Newsmann9@gmail.com