This year’s Halloween costumes should be Sarah Palin and Joe Plumber — a GREAT couple’s costume idea. Please help us spread this, so Palins and Plumbers rock every Halloween party across the country. 

We highly encourage everyone to dress up like this and hit as many parties and bars as possible, go to as many shopping malls or festivals as you can.

Because every election season, the most popular Halloween costumes predict the winner of the presidential race.

Cindy McCain already won the Family Circle cookie bakeoff — another indicator (which hasn’t been wrong since it started back in 1992). Her delicious oatmeal butterscotch cookies beat Michelle Obama’s bitter, clingy, arugula and caviar shortbreads, hands down (claws out).

Based on what we’re hearing here in Boystown, there are going to be a lot of women (and some men) dressed up as Sarah Palin on October 31st. So, we have a feeling McCain/Palin are going to win this indicator as well.

We also believe Sarah Palin’s bit on Saturday Night Live tonight will be Halloween-themed: Palin has dressed up as Tina Fey for Halloween before, so we imagine they’ll run a Halloween party sketch, with Palin dressed as Fey and Fey dressed as Palin. It would be a great Parent Trap/Patty Duke moment with loads of potential for mistaken identity farce.

Palin will, we’re sure, knock it out of the park.

Can’t wait.