Fifty years ago, as September rolled into October, Hunter S. Thompson was returning to the National Affairs Desk from an extended Aspen respite. Then, as now, the November elections really went into high gear after Labor Day, and the accelerating countdown finds Hunter ignoring his famous gambling objectivity. Instead, his is widely speculating that the Democrats might yet avoid an historic defeat come November. Our hosts revisit all that plus the weird parallels to this election season; they even quote that most wise of political consultants, Sitting Bull.