Posted on 10/28/2012 2:22:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A top aide to Barack Obama voiced fears Sunday that Hurricane Sandy could hurt the president's re-election chances by reducing turnout, as the impending storm forced both candidates to cancel campaign stops.
Republican challenger Mitt Romney received good news in two key swing states, winning the endorsement in Iowa of the main newspaper, the Des Moines Register, and tying Obama in a newly-released poll in all-important Ohio.
But nine days out from the nailbiter November 6 election, all eyes were on Hurricane Sandy and how the potentially catastrophic storm might play out on the neck-and-neck race for the White House.
"Obviously we want unfettered access to the polls because we believe that the more people come out, the better we're going to do," senior Obama strategist David Axelrod told CNN.
"And so to the extent that it makes it harder, you know, that's a source of concern," he said.
Democrats desperately need to rally Obama supporters as Romney surged into the lead in national polls following a commanding first debate victory on October 3 and his momentum shows little sign of evaporating.
With the storm due to hit late Monday or early Tuesday, Obama and Romney scrambled to revamp their schedules in the hectic final stretch of a campaign that has seen them criss-cross the main battlegrounds on a near-daily basis...
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Waiting for libs to blame the weather on George Bush again in 3, 2, 1...
Obama is praying to his “There is no god but allah” ring.
According to Brit Hume on FNS today, the Battleground poll to be released tomorrow will also show RR up by 5 nationwide.
Re Heavy snow knocking out power to conservative Western PA:
I hear from my boy who has meteorological training, that in the Pittsburgh area (South-Western PA) some snow is expected, but it’s also expected to be very wet, several inches, and rapidly melt.
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