It’s October, it’s an election year, and a lot of pundits are wondering, “Where’s the October Surprise?” Where is the game-changing enterprise story or force-fed press release that is going to blow the doors off of one of the two candidates – well, maybe more than two, because I know some people are going to vote for Nader and some people are going to vote for Clinton, and I do see a lot of those Roslin\/Airlock tees around lately.<\/p>\n
The October Surprise starts right here, next Monday. All week, leading up to what Bill Jemas would likely have called U-DECIDE ’08, the Alert Nerd brain trust is going to be rolling out the nerdiest, geekiest, election coverage you can find in the entire universe<\/em>. Take that, Colbert! We’re calling it Grok the Vote<\/strong> (after the official Alert Nerd ‘zine<\/a> for the attractive intelligentsia which I know<\/em> you’re already an avid fan<\/a> of, right?)<\/p>\n We’ll probably talk about Star Wars a good bit. And Trek. And Lex Luthor. And maybe Dune. So yeah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s October, it’s an election year, and a lot of pundits are wondering, “Where’s the October Surprise?” Where is the game-changing enterprise story or force-fed press release that is going to blow the doors off of one of the two candidates – well, maybe more than two, because I know some people are going to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grok-the-vote","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}