Are we due for an “October surprise?” 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. I explore what they are in today’s Wall Street Journal.
