I doubt very much that privation, starvation, pestilence or hordes of locusts will prevent most northeastern voters from voting for Obama and Democrat candidates down to the very bottom of the ballot.
In my many years in elective politics and office I noted one consistency....the robot-like voting by Democrats. Many are still voting for FDR and many others will do the same because their families before them voted for FDR.
Others are woefully uneducated in politics and basic economics, others feel they are "superior" to you and me (voting for a black man), others are takers not makers....others are union-connected or government employees......well, I could go on, but you know the story anyway.
These people will NEVER change their voting habits, no matter what. Today Obama could throw a fire-bomb into the front room of my neighbors....and on Tuesday they would march to the polls and vote for him, anyway.
A very close friend of mine has been a Democrat all his life. Union family. Not a lot of discussion about politics in his household over the years because it was just a given that Democrats represented them best.
Recently he said he was in a checkout line somewhere and was behind someone who used an EBT card to buy hundreds of dollars of goods. He said it was the last straw for him because he realized he was working to pay for that person's spending as well as his own. He is now strongly supporting Romney & Ryan.
I know that's only one example but I speculate it is one of many more. The bad economy belongs to Obama. I am hopeful his moniker will change from The Won to The Wasn't (re-elected) next Tuesday.