Al Qaeda Targeting U.S. Synagogues?

Osama bin Laden is doing his part for the midterm election.  On the Friday before the 2004 presidential election bin Laden released a tape which essentially called for John Kerry's election.  Game, set and match for George W Bush.

Today, just a few days after Minnesota Democrat Rep. Betty McCollum stated that al Qaeda was no longer a threat to the U.S., we have breaking news about an attempt to ship bombs to U.S. synagogues from ...wait for it...al Qaeda.  Hot Air has all the details at the link

The media is going wall-to-wall with this story which makes me think they're of the opinion this story will help the Democrats since it possibly show the administration stopping a bomb plot.

I doubt it.  As political scientist Larry Sabato said on Twitter:

No tweeps, the terrorist incident will have little impact on 11/2. Cake baked, cooled, iced. Except in small # of cases, over for long time.

However this was found out, good work by all involved. However, if this is an attempt to influence the election, and that's a very realistic possibility given the timing, it will fail.