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brooklynite

(94,585 posts)
1. Actually, likely to be in the opposite direction...
Fri Aug 5, 2016, 09:43 AM
Aug 2016

Administration planning a final push against Mosul in conjunction with Iraqi and Kurdish forces

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
2. conservatives hoping most likely for a major international terror strike what they don't
Fri Aug 5, 2016, 09:44 AM
Aug 2016

understand is trump will have the bulk of american voters KNOWING he is unfit....the one thing they dont want is another mass american shooting using ak47s or AR15s.....

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Roland99

(53,342 posts)
4. Because, the last few election cycles...
Fri Aug 5, 2016, 09:51 AM
Aug 2016

there always seemed to be bubbling-up talk of an impending October Surprise.

And they never really materialized to be much of anything.

Now it's awfully quiet out....

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Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts)
6. Oh we're going to have an October Surpise
Fri Aug 5, 2016, 10:06 AM
Aug 2016

Believe me, we're going to have an October Surprise. The best October Surprise.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
7. There is always worry about that
Fri Aug 5, 2016, 10:18 AM
Aug 2016

Nothing they can come up with would help. There are Sept. and Oct. surprises out there for Donnie.

Yonnie3

(17,442 posts)
12. Shhh ... If ya ask, no one will tell you because it would spoil the surprise,
Fri Aug 5, 2016, 11:12 AM
Aug 2016

but be very, very concerned because of the thousands of inklings in August of what might be a surprise in October, most (perhaps all) have never happened.

Our attention is better devoted to other matters. GOTV and down ticket races being two.
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