October 01, 2016, 12:13 pm
What will be October’s surprise?
By Ben Kamisar
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Donald Trump's political rise has been the biggest political surprise of the young century.
But what will be the October surprise in a deeply unpredictable race?
Past elections have been upended with surprise news in October — sometimes from events trigged by the campaigns and sometimes due to factors far out of their control.
In recent elections, unemployment shot up in the weeks ahead of the 2008 race, Osama bin Laden released a video days before the 2004 election and news broke just ahead of the 2000 election that George W. Bush had been arrested for drunk driving decades earlier.
Here are some possible areas that could surprise Trump, Clinton and the electorate this month.
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