Posted on 08/03/2020 3:48:23 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
In the past, the term “October Surprise” has almost always involved the Democrats turning up some last-minute dirt on a Republican. Perhaps the best-known of these was the revelation of a driving-while-under-the-influence charge (DWI) against Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush on Friday, November 3, 2000, a mere three days before the razor-thin 2000 election. Many political analysts think this cost Bush significant votes among evangelical Christians.
But the “October Surprise” of the 2016 campaign was close: a video from an “Access Hollywood” interview with Billy Bush came out on October 7, 2016, in which Trump made comments about what it was like to be a star in which he said that women fell all over him and “You can do anything . . . Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.” Of course, Trump never said he did this, only that such was the situation with stars. (As a former rock drummer, I can attest to the general direction of President Trump’s comments!)
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On the eve of the 1992 presidential election, on October 30, Walsh obtained a grand jury re-indictment of Weinberger on one count of false statements. One phrase in that superseding indictment referred to President George H. W. Bush. Some believe that Bush had been closing the gap with Bill Clinton, and that this event stopped his momentum. Clinton administration attorney Lanny Davis called the decision to indict a week before the election rather than after the election "bizarre." Judge Thomas F. Hogan dismissed the October indictment two months later for being outside the statute of limitations. Weinberger's subsequent pardon by President George H. W. Bush in December 1992 preempted any trial. Walsh steadfastly denied that the investigation was politically motivated, while Bush and others criticized it as "the criminalization of policy differences."
If they get 7, our side probably has 49 waiting for us. :(
“Hey! Have a little faith! It’s gonna be beautiful bunch of surprises!” :-D
The biggest October Surprise of 2020 will be....
When Joe Biden is unceremoniously dumped in a Memory Care Unit and NO ONE is left standing to take his place.
Surprise!
My October list includes news about RBG, evidence of alien visits, complete chaos regarding the Dem ticket (which could start a lot sooner than October), and another bio-attack from China (if they manage to avoid a dam break... or financial catastrophe if they don’t).
2020 is a nasty year. We’re lucky we don’t get an asteroid hit. :(
And then there’s the election, 3 days beyond October. I have some thoughts about how weird that’s going to be.
Big difference with Trump. Everyday for Trump has been an, “October surprise”. And they’ve all failed.
Don’t forget debates odds of creepyjo saying something worthy of a mental patient not too bad. Jo can’t campaign cauong more than a few to wonder
It’s going to be the TRUMP VACCINE and will be met with record markets and glee among everyone except damaged Democrats.
More and more lies and fake news will be coming.
I appreciate your writing LS
Number 8: A vaccine is approved and gets pushed out.
Press On, LS!
“It’s going to be the TRUMP VACCINE”
BINGO. In fact, I don’t think this will be a “surprise”. I think it will be facts on the ground.
I’m expecting Regeneron to announce their antibody cocktail treatment in August. Covid deaths could potentially decrease rapidly.
I’m expecting a Covid vaccine in September to receive FDA emergency use. FDA will be under tremendous pressure to approve a vaccine quickly. I’m guessing AstraZeneca gets approved first, in September with Pfizer and Moderna following, likely in October.
AstraZeneca is already producing vaccines while clinical testing continues. They will have 100 million doses ready in September. Half the US population could be immunized before the election.
Picture this: Trump at the airport loading the vaccine onto cargo planes with a chain of workers as HE sends the cure across the nation.
CNN, MSNBC hosts all cry on air as the pandemic ends.
FYI: I received the first shot of the Pfizer Phase 3 vaccine trial today. Wife got first shot last week. In 3 weeks, we get the second shot.
“Number 8: A vaccine is approved and gets pushed out.”
yep, yep, yep. This wins the election for Trump.
Joe’s very likely not going to make it even to the debates at the rate they’re covering him now.
Dem cheating will be a November not-so-surprise. We need to be ready for it.
That was a big one. Bush had to go on Larry King, and that was the whole topic. It finished him. The thing was laughable and quickly dismissed after the election.
People aren’t good at history these days. The other night I saw a report on the 1980 election focusing on some controversial statement Reagan made in Mississippi and saying his racist bluster helped him carry the state by a point and a half.
He won forty states, but why bother mentioning that?
Remember the Black Panthers at the polls in Philadelphia, in 2008? We need to be ready for that too. Exponentially worse than that.
The big surprise is going to be the over vote of our November election will be the exact number consistent with the amount of employees of Burisma and the citizens of Kenya. That ought to just about do it. Get ready for the H1b voters in 2024 years. To hard to get them organized and to the polls this year. And way to obvious. Even flat line MRI Joe wouldn’t believe that.
rwood
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