D.C.

WITH HALLOWEEN AND ELECTION DAY coming so close together this year, it's sometimes tough telling them apart.

Both political parties are trying to scare up votes by portraying the opposition as frighteningly dangerous.

"He'll raise your taxes and give you socialized medicine," screams George W. Bush.

"He'll draft your children and send them off to fight in new wars while he destroys your Social Security and Medicare," shrieks John F. Kerry.

Nowhere is this demonizing strategy more apparent than in the search for Jewish votes. Simply put, it says: if you can't convince 'em, scare the hell out of 'em.

That strategy has been particularly apparent on the …