On CNN website right now

"GOP officials: Rumsfeld stepping down

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, architect of an unpopular war in Iraq, intends to resign after six stormy years as Secretary of Defense, Republican officials said Wednesday."

First casualty of election, or something that would have happened anyway but they didn't want to announce it before the election since it would have hurt Republican campaigns?

Cue the cartoon "Dropping the pilot" (Except, Rummy is no Bismark)