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President Barack Obama walks from Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. Septembers shock, Octobers surprise, early Novembers can knock a campaign sideways. In a presidential races waning weeks almost anything can happen _ bedlam in the Middle East, financial panic at home, a scandal. And as Election Day ticks closer, candidates get less and less time to absorb the blow. Sometimes the kind of jolt known as an October Surprise matters in the end. Other times it doesnt. But every campaign knows enough to worry about what might come. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
President Barack Obama walks from Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. Septembers shock, Octobers surprise, early Novembers can knock a campaign sideways. In a presidential races waning weeks almost anything can happen _ bedlam in the Middle East, financial panic at home, a scandal. And as Election Day ticks closer, candidates get less and less time to absorb the blow. Sometimes the kind of jolt known as an October Surprise matters in the end. Other times it doesnt. But every campaign knows enough to worry about what might come. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

In 1951, an undistinguished, frequently-drunk, first term senator named Joseph McCarthy insinuated that George Marshall, the general who had led the U.S. army during World War II, was part of a conspiracy to let China go communist.

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