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Thursday is the Traditional "October Surprise" Day in Presidential Elections
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Posted on 10/29/2008 11:19:10 PM PDT by Chet 99

Thursday is the Traditional "October Surprise" Day in Presidential Elections ...

Consider:

1992: Bush 41 is surging in the polls, and even overtakes Clinton in some tracking polls. Lawrence Walsh indicts Casper Weinberger.

2000: Bush 43 is well ahead of Gore. Bush is spending the final week campaigning in California and New Jersey. Bush's old DUI story is announced.

2004: A twofer in 2004 - (1) The "missing explosives" story; and (2) Bin Laden's videotaped endorsement of Kerry

So tomorrow is Thursday, the traditional day to unload a last minute bomb, designed to control the news cycle for the remainder of the campaign.


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KEYWORDS: 2008; chat; conspiracy; mccain; obama; octobersurprise; vanitypalooza; vanityrepublic; yetanothervanity
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1 posted on 10/29/2008 11:19:10 PM PDT by Chet 99
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To: Chet 99

I will take a wild guess — evidence emerges that BHO was the 20th hijacker ? :)


2 posted on 10/29/2008 11:20:55 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: Chet 99

One of three things:

1) The Khalidi Tape is released.

2) The Vera Baker story is put forth by bloggers and certain other groups.

3) Something about Obama that we do not know.

All of the potential October surprises about McCain have been exhausted. Obama’s got too many things in his back pocket. And things are going to tip.


3 posted on 10/29/2008 11:21:59 PM PDT by DJ Republica (President Palin is a friend of Iesu, and Jews.)
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To: Chet 99

Did they play the Michelle Obama “whitey” tapes yet?


4 posted on 10/29/2008 11:24:22 PM PDT by max americana
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To: Chet 99

Obama puts on his “blue jeans” one last time and turns the rain into Blueberry Kool-Aid for the masses.


5 posted on 10/29/2008 11:24:43 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I'm voting for McCain/Palin so I can look my grandchildren in the eyes when I tell them I'm sorry.)
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To: Chet 99

May it please be in our favor!!! I can’t have any more election stress right now or I might explode.


6 posted on 10/29/2008 11:25:11 PM PDT by MiddleEarth ("The board is set. Pieces are moving. It has come to it at last. The great battle of our time.")
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To: DJ Republica

Khalidi tape maybe.


7 posted on 10/29/2008 11:25:14 PM PDT by rdl6989 (What isn't above Obama's pay grade?)
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To: Chet 99
Perhaps this is one

Found in a rundown Boston estate: Barack Obama’s aunt Zeituni Onyango (Aunt in Boston Slum!!)
8 posted on 10/29/2008 11:27:26 PM PDT by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism and OBAMA IS A MARXIST)
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To: Chet 99

BO turns water into wine and feeds 5000 followers at Thursday rally?


9 posted on 10/29/2008 11:27:35 PM PDT by ConservChristian
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Nothing is the October surprise. McCain is too weak and worried about what the left thinks of him to pull something legit on Obama. I think the birth certificate deal would have been ripe, but we conservatives have so few to fight for us.


10 posted on 10/29/2008 11:27:35 PM PDT by freeplancer (McCain Voters Catch the Lobsters-Obama Voters Eat Them)
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To: freeplancer

Uhhh...it wouldn’t be the McCain camp putting anything out. It would be someone else. Independent sources, say maybe WFTV out of Orlando, etc.


11 posted on 10/29/2008 11:28:30 PM PDT by DJ Republica (President Palin is a friend of Iesu, and Jews.)
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To: DJ Republica

You forgot:

4) API releases the Whitey tape, the Michelle audio, and information on Obama’s first wife all at once.


12 posted on 10/29/2008 11:29:26 PM PDT by GoSarah
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To: Chet 99

It wont come from Obama, since he’s playing it as safe as can be.

It wont come from the media since they’ve already decided Obama has won.

It wont come from Biden since they’ve put a muzzle on him.

Fingers crossed.


13 posted on 10/29/2008 11:30:18 PM PDT by period end of story
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To: Chet 99
I'm thinking a there will be at least one last-gasp, hail-mary cheap shot against Gov. Palin or even Todd Palin by O. bin Binden. She feels like the more strategic target, to me. Even something patently false would steal coverage away from anything new brought out against Obama, giving the MSM an excuse not to cover it.
14 posted on 10/29/2008 11:35:02 PM PDT by Sparticus (Libs, they're so open minded that their brains leaked out.)
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To: Chet 99

Obama is a self-admitted cokehead. Seriously. Most people don’t know that. At this point that could destroy him. People don’t know him and are getting more skeptical. Doing coke is not a youthful indiscretion. That’s some serious sh!t. What else is not known about him?

That revelation would sink his campaign and it’s in his friggin book.

He also probably dealt coke too. What else has he done and not admitted to?

Right now I have the feeling that the country is ready to vote the guy down. This is way too late to introduce yourself to middle America. Plus people don’t want to see their taxes go up or the government get bigger. We can’t afford that crap now. The financial meltdown makes the cost of government more of an issue now. Americans are ticked off by the bailouts and you want to tax and spend even more? No thanks.

Obama did coke. Shout it from the rooftops.


15 posted on 10/29/2008 11:35:04 PM PDT by Harry Wurzbach (Joe The Plumber & Rep. Thaddeus McCotter are my heroes.)
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To: DJ Republica
All of the potential October surprises about McCain have been exhausted.

Let's hope so. But Obama has a history of profiting off of ugly revelations from the divorce records of opponents. McCain went through a divorce and has admitted to "inappropriate" behavior during his first marriage. One wonders if Obama will revert to form.

16 posted on 10/29/2008 11:37:18 PM PDT by AHerald ("Be faithful to God ... do not bother about the ridicule of the foolish." - St. Pio of Pietrelcina)
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To: MiddleEarth

I asked my husband if he could get any coma inducing drugs for Tuesday and to keep me that way for 4 years should Obama win.


17 posted on 10/29/2008 11:40:03 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Chet 99
Good Post, Chet!

My bet: Video of FBI Informant describing WeatherUnderground plot to exterminate 25million Americans.

18 posted on 10/29/2008 11:41:19 PM PDT by rvoitier
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To: GoSarah

Obama had a first wife?


19 posted on 10/29/2008 11:41:37 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Chet 99

What could it be?????


20 posted on 10/29/2008 11:42:41 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Redistribute Obamas Wealth)
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