La surprise d’octobre

How about that? I'm going with a French title for today's post. By the way, speaking Spanish does not really help me understand French. Italian yes, but French sounds like Russian to me. As you've heard many times, watch out for the October Surprise, a late-breaking event that impacts, one way or another, our elections. Remember the 2004 terrorist attacks against schoolchildren in Russia that put terror on the front pages? Remember the 2008 "bank crisis" that derailed the McCain campaign? These two surprises had a lot to do with reelecting President Bush and unfortunately electing Senator Obama. The October...