Hurricane Sandy as the October Surprise

Will the last week before the election belong to Obama or Romney?

Some considerations:

1. Gas prices are dropping everywhere. Once upon a time not too long ago, the R's were going to hang O with the price of gas.

2. Newspaper endorsements are all over the map. Haven't been keeping score, but I know Romney got a key one in Des Moines, IA, but Obama's got some surprising ones as well.

3. Some talk about how the unemployment numbers may not be available on Friday.

4. Maybe most important will be the way Sandy plays out. Obama's forces are reminding voters that Romney wants to kill FEMA, while both campaigns are temporarily on hold. You can be sure that Obama will adhere to the old adage about "never letting a good crisis go to waste.".

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Originally Posted by Ocala Mike

Will the last week before the election belong to Obama or Romney?

Some considerations:

1. Gas prices are dropping everywhere. Once upon a time not too long ago, the R's were going to hang O with the price of gas. 3.21 here today, down from 3.59 month ago..thank you Big O..

2. Newspaper endorsements are all over the map. Haven't been keeping score, but I know Romney got a key one in Des Moines, IA, but Obama's got some surprising ones as well.

3. Some talk about how the unemployment numbers may not be available on Friday.Only release if favorable.

4. Maybe most important will be the way Sandy plays out. Obama's forces are reminding voters that Romney wants to kill FEMA, while both campaigns are temporarily on hold. You can be sure that Obama will adhere to the old adage about "never letting a good crisis go to waste.".absolutely, Big O to the rescue

Radio ads with Mitt's voice saying 'forget the 47%'....love it..

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Powerful Article ... non-political

Watching New York City drown

In 2005, Aaron Naparstek, a writer with the New York Press, published a remarkably prescient piece about the vulnerability of New York City to hurricanes, the flooding that would result along the hundreds of miles of shoreline in the five boroughs—with the water filling the sea-level interior flatlands and washing over the reclaimed swamps of Brooklyn—and the ill-prepared psychology of “a complacent coastal city” where the ocean is not thought of as a threat. Naparstek observed that in fact New York “is behind only Miami and New Orleans on the list of U.S. cities most likely to suffer a major hurricane disaster.” He cited meteorologists and disaster planners with the city’s Office of Emergency of Management who were in consensus “that the metropolitan region is due for a big one. Overdue, in fact.” Mike Lee, then Director of Watch Command at the OEM, told Naparstek that the worst-case hurricane scenario for New York City—in which 30 feet or more of storm surge sweeps over the city in a category 3 storm event—“gives emergency managers serious gastrointestinal distress.” Nicholas Coch, a professor of coastal geology at Queens College, said “The New York City area is the worst possible place for a hurricane to make a landfall.”

http://www.salon.com/2012/10/30/watc...rk_city_drown/