Wow

That was...unexpected. Was anyone else blinsided by today's news? Seriously, Carmichael's dead in the water. Hell, his whole party's gonna go under. There's no way a viable, non third-party candidate's gonna show up now to oppose Jonathan Rake. Not that he could really be opposed beforehand.

And, of course, I'm suspicious. Evidence just pops up a couple months before the election that ties pretty much everyone within three degrees of separation of Carmichael and his Cabinet in with recent, not old hat, ties to Op. Mayhem. After that speech he gave a couple years ago, you know, the "Second Chance" speech, there's no way he can salvage himself. Hell, he'll be lucky not to have been impeached and sent to jail by election day.

I think, scratch that, I'm nearly positive he was framed. Whoever framed me and is trying like hell to get Rake elected, framed his opponent. The only real question I have is why. Rake's gonna win. I, hell, America has known this for over a year. Why go to all these lengths to make him not only the Good Guy but the Only Guy? It's overkill. It's political genocide.

Without a doubt, Rake is going to win the election. Whoever's watching over him is making sure of it. Does he even know?

It has to have something to do with the time Rake and Shasta went missing. I've stopped believing in coincidences.