I don't know. AQ does tend to do what they've done before, especially if it worked. They hit Spain just weeks before their election and definitely changed the outcome of the election giving power to the doves instead of the hawks. Then they did it again in the U.K. and they got rid of Tony Blair.
They may think that a strike on the U.S. right before the election will work on us too. And they might be right. We Americans have a short attention span, and there will be a cry of blame on us, for having taken the fight to them. Obama will leverage the "chickens coming home to roost" angle and could sweep into office in a landslide.
I do expect another attack, just before the election. What scares me is that it might work.
Read Bill Roggio’s “The Long War Journal.” We captured 4 top Iranian S/F guys including a financier this week alone. Things are getting interesting.
Also, Wretchard posted a story from Spengler about the unrest in Iran (that is a year old)—like major unemployment and huge inflation.
Maybe things are playing out in slow mo?