Guess the October Surprise Contest
by Jon Carroll, SF Chronicle

So some of the more paranoid people among us (the paranoid people are rapidly earning an alternative name: realists) have suggested that the Bush administration may be preparing some sort of "October surprise," a staged event that would give a lift to the Republican candidate just before the election. So, the contest rules: The October Surprise must be a real surprise and not something just slightly odd, like John Ashcroft demanding that all people whose names begin with "K" be placed in concentration camps. (If, however, all people whose names began with "K" are actually placed in concentration camps, that would qualify.) The surprise also must be at least arguably a creation of the Bush administration or its representatives.

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