[Red Steel]

I contend that every one of those voters would have voted for Obama even if Hurricane Sandy made landfall a week after Election Day ... and they would have cited some other "most important issue" that motivated their vote.

Two can play this game. Please provide for me the evidence that "the 15%" would all have voted for Obama and none of them would have voted for Romney if Sandy H. had never existed.

Kristie Creme and Sandy helped Obama which hurt Romney with these flaky voters, which appears to be the consensus opinion around here. And Kristie is acting like he wants to change his party. The Dems can have him.

The fact is that ABC, Gallup, and Rasmussen had Romney 5% to 6% over Obama with about a week to go, and on election day, these national polls were down to a 1% difference which is really too close to call for any candidate.

[Alberta's Child]

I don't have to provide any evidence at all. I'm not even saying that you are wrong. What I am saying is that the numbers as they have been presented in your post don't necessarily support your contention that any of that nonsense was a determining factor in the election.

Here's my statement: Obama would have been re-elected even if Hurricane Sandy made landfall a week after Election Day. There are any number of reasons for that, and those are all worthy of discussion.