( CNN ) -- In this high-stakes election , Americans are making use of every available opportunity to get the word out about the candidates and issues . For some , that means making Halloween political . Oliver Smith and Matt Fett created these impressive pumpkin portraits of Barack Obama and Sarah Palin . Many of these people shared their Halloween politicking on iReport.com . A few of them , like Mark Weyermuller of Wilmette , Illinois , have gone all-out , turning their yards into full-on political displays . Weyermuller 's features life-size figures of Barack Obama , John McCain , Hillary Clinton , and Sarah Palin , and he says he 's waiting for his Joe Biden mask to arrive in the mail . He also has a sign up -- held by a witch , appropriately -- that reads `` Witch do you like for vice-president ? '' `` We do this every year with current event figures , '' said Weyermuller , adding that `` The political characters tend to scare the neighbors and the kids more then most traditional ghosts and goblins . '' Weyermuller even added a figure of Joe the plumber to the lawn after the final presidential debate . `` He is now the star of the election , Halloween and this front yard , '' he said . iReport.com : A political yard for Halloween . Melissa Cruson 's family builds a giant spider web in their Colleyville , Texas , yard each year for Halloween . But this year , they decided to give it a political twist at her daughter 's suggestion . `` While buying the supplies that we needed for the web , my daughter , who is in the sixth grade , mentioned that 'this year we should put Obama and Hillary in the web ! ' We thought it was a great idea and went with it , '' she said . So this year , in addition to the traditional giant spiders , the Cruson family 's web features a smiling John McCain sitting in front of the web , where Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are trapped . `` The comical part of this [ is that ] my husband and I are just about as nonpolitical as you can get , '' Cruson said . `` Yet it appears that we have made a pretty loud political statement this year with this display and the attention it has received . But we do know that this is a very critical election for our country . '' Cruson said her family continuously receives visitors who want to pose for photos with the political web . Staffers at the local Republican headquarters even heard about the display and `` went crazy over it . '' iReport.com : Caught in a political web . Perhaps the most elaborate political Halloween display we 've seen on iReport.com can only be seen from the air . Baggenstos Farms in Sherwood , Oregon , created a corn maze with the theme `` Election 2008 . '' The maze features likenesses of McCain and Obama along with the candidates ' names and the word `` vote . '' Greg Hughes , who is studying to become a pilot , was on a training flight near Portland , Oregon , when he spotted the display . He grabbed his video camera to capture the maze as his instructor flew the plane . `` Now that 's a yard sign ! '' said one of the commenters on Hughes ' iReport . iReport.com : A political crop circle ? Other iReporters are displaying their candidate of choice on Halloween in simpler ways . Political pumpkins displaying the candidates ' names , likenesses , and slogans are becoming popular with Democrats and Republicans in the days before the election . Matt Fett of Ames , Iowa -- who clearly has some experience in pumpkin carving -- created a portrait of Palin for his jack-o'-lantern this year . He says he likes to carve `` something that 's relevant '' each year , and as a Republican , carved Mitt Romney last year . iReport.com : A Sarah Palin pumpkin . Oliver Smith of Tulsa , Oklahoma , carved an equally professional-looking pumpkin portrait of Obama . `` Basically , I just found a picture of him that I liked , tweaked it to find the parts to cut , carbon copied it to the pumpkin , then chiseled away parts of the skin , '' he said . `` The whole process took about 4½ hours . '' Unfortunately , he says , squirrels chewed his jack-o'-lantern to bits just hours after he completed it . But Smith , who supports Obama in the election , says he 's not giving up on a political Halloween . `` I plan on making another closer to Halloween , '' he said . `` But I 'm not giving the squirrels any more food until then . '' iReport.com : 'Pumpkins for change '
Many Americans using Halloween to express their political views . Pumpkin portraits of presidential and vice-presidential candidates abound . Elaborate displays include a political web and a giant corn maze to get out the vote . iReport.com : Are you displaying your political affiliation this Halloween ?