Will Hurricane ‘Frankenstorm’ Sandy Affect The Presidential Election?

[Purveyor]

Hurricane Sandy has cut across Jamaica and Cuba and is about to make her way towards the U.S. Florida has already been issued a tropical storm warning from the National Hurricane Center.

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The storm will be hitting in the last week before the Nov. 6 election, and early voting already is under way in some states.

Mark McKinnon, a former media strategist for President George W. Bush who later founded No Labels, a bipartisanship promoting group, said the hurricane is bringing the campaigns something they both despise: uncertainty.

“Campaigns are all about control,” he told the New York Times. “So in the closing days, they fear any external events that could disrupt the game plan. Ain’t no leashes for Mother Nature.”

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[Purveyor]

1. Widespread loss of electricity could be a huge problem for millions. Being out of power for a

week or two is not unheard of in these type of '100 year' events.

Could the election actually be delayed and by whose authority could it be.

[cthulu2016]

2. Not a lot, but yes. It benefits the incumbent

[2on2u]

3. His ways are not our own doncha know..... but he could leave us something better in his

will methinks.

[democrat_patriot]

4. Early voting definitely favors Obama

So if it affects election day, we win.

[Chorophyll]

5. Those who can vote early probably should.

Otherwise, getting worked up over all the things that could possibly befall us between now and Election Day is counterproductive.

[ewagner]

6. FEMA should be mobilized right now....

One of the things they can do before the hurricane even strikes is "STAGE" additional power crews on the periphery of the storm so they can move in quickly...they will also need to mobilize front-end loaders, chippers, and dump trucks to haul away debris as soon as possible.


Additional SAR (search and rescue) crews should be alerted and staged also because they take the longest to deploy (12-14 hours usually)

Additional medical crews go without saying...that's a no-brainer.

[randome]

9. Yes. The best political outcome of this storm is that Obama will once again show he is prepared.

[VenusRising]

7. The only good thing I can see coming from it

If the electricity goes out, they will have to use paper ballots, and those are harder to switch than e-votes.

[hrmjustin]

8. There is not much early voting in the northeast so we are not out of the woods.

The rural areas in the northeast go somewhat gop depending on the state, and they always loose power. The suburbs are swing areas here and they always loose power. The cities power supplies are below ground and usually fair well in these things. This storm will make turnout lower only because people will have their hands full with clean-up. It really depends where it hits and what damage is done. We are all election day voters up here.