It kind of brings to mind the comment by Rahm to take advantage of a crisis, what better crisis than the last remaining member of your mother’s family passing away just in time to make the evening newscasts the night before the election? It also helps that no one questioned how his grandfather died before the election while he kept bringing up McCain’s cancer. Even now wiki Cancer deaths in HI doesn’t include Grandpa while Grandma and mom are there! It wasn’t revealed until AFTER the election that Grandpa Dunham died of cancer!