Kasz216 said:
Mr Khan said:
Kasz216 said:
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. |
I couldn't disagree more.
I mean... what could be better politically for Obama in the middle of an arguement about the correct size of govenrment... then a giant disaster that forces a number of states to rely on government?
Allowing him to look presidential and confident, while Mitt Romney either has to disapear until the end of the storm, or continue to do campaign stuff and look fakey and have people challenging him for campaigning during a national emergency.
The only real issue is early voting. Which may or may not matter because I don't think the polls take that into account so much... and if anything might help.
Since there is a weird cascade effect in American politics, where if you win the east states you have a better chance of taking west states.
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The only issue, really, is Pennsylvania, where the Eastern end of the state that keeps the state Blue has been devastated, while the redneck center and even-mixed West are much less impacted.
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Ah, didn't realize that about Penn. Thought it was pretty soldily Obama by now though.
Obama and Chris Christe traveling together to look at the damage alone i'd say beats any negative political impact.
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Oh yeah. Central Pennsylvania is basically West Virginia, while the west is basically East Ohio (which is why we've got one of the more competitive congressional races in the country nearby: Critz v. Rothfus, though Critz is one of those damn blue dogs bragging about how pro-life and pro-second-amendment he is...). Even the race i'm in is fairly competitive, even though no-one outside the district thinks it is.
Left, Right, or moderate, Western Pennsylvanians tend to scorn Central as "Pennsyltucky"
