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To: pistolpackinpapa; T. P. Pole

Lame. Revealing a DUI from 25 years earlier? Hardly an “October Surprise” (or even November Surprise).

When I think “October Surprise” I’m thinking show-stopper, drop-out-of-race-now kind of revelations.


29 posted on 08/09/2012 5:59:27 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
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To: ctdonath2

That DWI charge gutted W. days before the election and put the 2000 race into the history books, a weaker/typical republican would have conceded the race to Gore rather than fight it to the Supreme Court.

The October surprise against H W Bush (the indictment of Caspar Weinberger) came out on the Friday before the election and killed his momentum and what appeared to be a GOP victory in 1992.


52 posted on 08/09/2012 8:25:50 AM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors,,, where the GOP goes for it's "conservative" Presidential candidates.)
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To: ctdonath2

You may claim it is lame (and it indeed was a lame charge) but it did have impact. Most folks feel it cost him a few points in the popular vote, and thus put the election into overtime with the Florida mess. Seems to me it almost worked.


55 posted on 08/09/2012 11:01:31 AM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: ctdonath2

Lame. Revealing a DUI from 25 years earlier? Hardly an “October Surprise” (or even November Surprise).
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Your memory is either very faulty or you were not “tuned in” to the 2000 Election. It was a very big freakin’ deal. It cost George W. a lot of votes and could have cost him the Election. It was scary.


57 posted on 08/09/2012 7:46:52 PM PDT by pistolpackinpapa (Why is it that you never see any Obama bumper stickers on cars going to work in the mornings?)
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