STACY MCCAIN: Signs and Omens: Obama’s Fading Hope and the Graveyard Whistling Choir. Plus, you don’t see the words “rape dungeon” in very many political blog posts. “The plural of ‘anecdote’ is data, as they say, and you don’t need a Magical Forecasting Model™ to see the dots in this emerging gestalt pattern, including the Gloria Allred ‘October surprise’ gambit. Never heard a peep about this until after Obama got his ass kicked in the first debate, did ya?”