SamuelRSmith on 31 October 2012
| kitler53 said: thanks to sandy he probably won't win. just heard on NPR he's loosing ground as romney continues to campaign and obama can't. |
Well, both politicians are still campaigning, just in different ways. Obama is making sure he handles this as well as possible (by which I mean, pour a shit tonne of money into it. Probably more and faster than he would have done if this occurred two years ago), because he knows it will do him well in the election.
It CAN hurt Obama in the sense that Sandy is preventing early votes... and Obama's expected to do well with early voters. But, I doubt this will result in a material loss in terms of electoral college votes in those states. In terms of the popular vote, he might lose a couple of percent, which may have an impact on elections out West.
