Hurricane Sandy and the Election
I'm sure we have all heard of Hurricane Sandy by now. With one week until the election, the storm is making things interesting for the presidential candidates. This article explains how the storm could affect the election, from how the candidates deal with the crisis to the possibility that people may not be able to get out and vote. How do you think the storm will affect the race?
posted by Anonymous @ 1:18 PM
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I hope this storm will ease some political tension. As a force of nature, I think the most important thing our nation needs to do is come together to ensure those effected by the storm have enough resources to recover. I would hope that this is a big priority for the president as he still is president and needs to address this, even if it's plausible that this could be his last year in office. There are clearly bigger storms to handle than the election.
Well he has headed back to Washington to help organize FEMA efforts. He even drew a lot of praise from New Jersey Governor Chris Cristie for how much help he has been. About time we had a president that doesn't screw up a major weather disaster. Imagine how hard it would be to recover from this without FEMA, a gov agency that Romney says he may get rise of. Just something to think about.
Why does he want to get rid of it? I think I've heard this before..
Jordan, I think it's for budget reasons. He doesn't think it's a necessary agency to fund. I actually just came across an article that says now that the hurricane is causing so much damage, Romney is refusing to talk about his plans to cut FEMA...interesting.
With regards to the article Cari posted, I think that it won't have a huge impact as far as the inability to air campaign ads, because I personally don't think ads will have a huge impact at this point. However, the actual ability of people being able to vote, on Election Day or early, may be a huge issue. I hope that enough clean up and reconstruction can get done so that people won't lose their opportunity to have there voices heard.
I am most nervous about voter turnout. I think voting may be on the bottom of the to do list with many people. They have things to worry about like food, housing, taking care of their children. They are not just going to stop what they are doing to go vote especially if their house was destroyed. Also, will people even be able to get there?
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