As Alex Pereene points out in Salon, there really never is an October surprise.
The October surprise hampered Whitman's campaign at a crucial time in her race against Jerry Brown, who won the election.
While it was still under way he said it could produce criminal charges and "an October surprise" for the McCain-Palin ticket.
There is always the possibility of what's known in American politics as an "October Surprise, " something sudden that changes people's voting plans.
Presumably, the Obama administration's conduct that has emboldened our enemies and that could create a politically dramatic "October Surprise" has not been intentionally pursued toward that end.
The October Surprise -- "the really stinky piece of information that campaigns hold on to until the end of the election, " as Michael McDonald, an associate professor at George Mason University who specializes in American elections, puts it -- will have to be a September Surprise to have much effect.
Observers said Delisle's guilty plea last October came as a surprise.
So the game is possibly reversing from last October, when the surprise reports began showing the U.S. economy was improving impressively and might even manage to become the salvation of the entire global economy.
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Weill as chief executive in October 2003, a slight surprise at the time since his rival for Weill's attention was Robert Willumstad, head of Citi's global consumer group.
The government-bond market has been confused since the Treasury's surprise decision in late October to stop issuing 30-year bonds.
But Devlin, Birmingham-born but who qualifies for Scotland through his father, is the big surprise for the 12 October clash.
So it comes as little surprise that up until October 12, it employed an online purveyor of pictures of scantily clad, under-age girls.
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When Islamic scholar Abdurrahman Wahid came from behind to become Indonesia's first democratically elected president in 44 years last October, the world was caught by surprise.
And even though it won't be proven right until the final qualifying matches in June, September and October, it would be a real surprise if Spain dropped any more points in its remaining games on the road in Finland and at home to Georgia and Belarus.
We've heard a groundswell of concern from tipsters that the Touch Diamond may have been bumped out to October -- it certainly wouldn't surprise us, given our jaded, overwhelmingly pessimistic personalities -- but here's hoping, anyway.
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Hutton, who took over the secretary's job on October 3, arrived Sunday in Baghdad on a surprise one-day visit to Iraq.
So it came as a surprise to many when Folz replaced Calvet in October 1997.
Dilma Rousseff made news when she was elected to lead Latin America's largest economy in October 2011, but in many ways the election result was not a surprise.
Then on October 29th came Mr Taylor's resignation: not in itself a surprise, since Mr Taylor is a long-standing Eurofanatic, nor in itself crippling, since he is nobody's idea of a political heavyweight, but a blow nevertheless especially since his resignation attracted sympathetic support from Mr Clarke.
It came as no surprise that voting got off to a slow start in Pakistan on October 10th.
Yet by the end of October, the university's lawyer had contacted Cordero and, to our surprise, indicated a willingness to consider a settlement.
That all added up to Weather Channel forecasts in October and November that were dry-biased, Dr. Neilley said meaning surprise precipitation was more common than false alarms, a reversal of the norm in forecasting.
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