Close polling figures increase likelihood of an unexpected twist
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Infowars.com
October 1, 2012
ABC News has released a story suggesting that an “October surprise” will impact next month’s presidential election, with an incident involving Iran likely to decide the winner. In an article entitled Obama Vs. Romney: Will October Bring a Political Surprise?, ABC’s Russell Goldman speculates that an Iranian attack on American interests could swing the election one way or the other, even suggesting that Mitt Romney may have “cut a deal” with Iran to undermine Obama.
ABC News has released a story suggesting that an “October surprise” will impact next month’s presidential election, with an incident involving Iran likely to decide the winner. In an article entitled Obama Vs. Romney: Will October Bring a Political Surprise?, ABC’s Russell Goldman speculates that an Iranian attack on American interests could swing the election one way or the other, even suggesting that Mitt Romney may have “cut a deal” with Iran to undermine Obama.
“Was something to occur in the days before the
election, it’s impossible to know how it might affect the voting,” he
writes.
The fact that polls show Romney and Obama are
so closely tied, “increases the likelihood that an unexpected event can
shape the polls,” writes Goldman, pointing to the Iranian hostage crisis
on the eve of the 1980 election which helped Ronald Reagan defeat Jimmy
Carter.
“You can term any unexpected event in late
October or early November an ‘October surprise,’” said Larry Sabato,
director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “The
surprising thing is that we’re surprised by it every four years.”
As we covered at the time, the 2004 appearance
of Osama Bin Laden in a videotaped message a few days before the
presidential election in which he all but urged people to vote for
Senator John Kerry was later acknowledged by both George W. Bush and
John Kerry as the deciding factor behind Bush’s victory in that year’s
closely fought election contest.
Bin Laden’s intervention was so controversial and
crucial that veteran newscaster Walter Kronkite told Larry King at the
time that he thought the whole episode was a “set-up” orchestrated by
Karl Rove.
Geopolitical analysts have speculated that the
recent uproar over the anti-Muhammad film is a pre-cursor to an October
surprise that will be exploited by neo-conservatives to “Carterize”
President Obama and ensure Mitt Romney, a closer ally with Israel’s Bibi
Netanyahu, is installed in his place.
It has even been suggested that Barack Obama
may have an October surprise of his own ready and waiting, taking a cue
from Bush’s 2004 success by preparing to release long-awaited photos
showing the dead corpse of Osama Bin Laden.
In the days following the announcement that Bin
Laden had been killed, Obama enjoyed a significant bounce in his
approval ratings - jumping 9 percentage points almost overnight.
Given the amount of flak Obama has been
receiving over his foreign policy failure in the aftermath of the attack
on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, nothing is outside the realms of
possibility.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.
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