Presidential Elections – Red, States, Blue States, Nation States ..

ARTICLE: Our Enemies And The Election, Wall Street Journal, Gabriel Schoenfeld, May 10, 2008, Pg. 11

…Ever since October 1972, when Henry Kissinger, then Richard Nixon’s national security adviser, announced that “peace is at hand” in Vietnam, an October surprise – or the impending possibility of one – has been a perennial feature of American political life. Will a dramatic foreign-policy development tip the electoral balance this year? Several factors have converged to make this more probable than in any recent election.

In addition to red states and blue states, nation states and terrorist groups (altered states) sharing opinions on the presidential candidates to include: Hamas, Russia, North Korea, Venezuela, Iranians ….

May not be anything new  but direct action to influence outcomes would be the “surprise.”