One of the predictions in the Politico article that hasn’t yet happened (but at this point might not surprise) came from the Harvard astronomy professor Avi Loeb: “Our research suggests that it’s only a matter of time before we’ll find something that signals that we’re not alone in the universe. And that will change a lot of things.”

An October surprise is an unexpected event or piece of information that comes out right before the election, and its upended entire campaigns before.