Losing power in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast hurts Obama much more than Romney. Trust me, Romeny voters are motivated to go to the polls come hell or high water.
I will walk, trudge, crawl, or swim if I have to, to get to a voting booth to vote out this administration!!! I would walk twenty miles if I had to ...
I do feel if it knocks power out, it’s going to disrupt this election. Northern Virginia is very slow to get its act in gear with power outages.
Pretty amazing this is happening right now.
“Losing power in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast hurts Obama much more than Romney”
Being from NJ, I can agree with your statement that any power outage would hurt Obama more—because here in NJ, almost all voting will be electronic without paper ballot backups. There are already documented cases of fraud in local elections & primaries as a result. So I can see the D’s demanding that the election be postponed until those machines come back on line.
Secondly, NJ’s power utilities have a historically lousy record responding to large area power outages, whether urban,suburban or rural. We had people without power for 10 days after Irene last year. So if an “ordinary” storm like Irene can affect power like that, this one has the potential to be much worse and have ripple effects on the voting.