With Hurricane Sandy bearing down on the East Coast — and early voters — a Democratic senator in one affected state predicted this morning “the storm will throw havoc into the race.”
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), citing a new Washington Post poll showing a 51-47 edge for President Obama in Virginia, said on Fox News Sunday the storm may not affect his state as much because “we don’t have as extensive early voting in Virginia as other states.” Extended power outages could affect voting machines through Election Day, though.
Obama and Mitt Romney both canceled Virginia events because of the hurricane.
Obama called Sandy “a serious and big storm” in remarks at FEMA headquarters today, vowing to get states and municipalities whatever they need.
“We’re going to cut through red tape. We’re not going to get bogged down with a lot of rules,” the president said. “We want to make sure that we are anticipating and leaning forward into making sure that we’ve got the best possible response to what is going to be a big and messy system.”
The other swing-state senators on the show focused on what these critical voters will make of the candidates’ policies heading into Nov. 6.
“As I drive around the victory centers, particularly yesterday, this issue of Benghazi is really bubbling up,” said Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). “People are demanding answers from this administration. I think it’s going to have a big impact here in the state of Wisconsin.”
Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) noted an early voting rate of about 80 percent in his state.
“Governor Romney has three problems here in Colorado. We don’t know whether it’s moderate Mitt or ‘me, too’ Mitt or severely conservative Mitt that will serve as a president. He’s been particularly unfriendly to Hispanics and Latinos,” Udall charged. “And women in the state are pro-choice. They want to make their own health care decisions and the Republican Party has in effect said to women, we know what’s best for you. We don’t want you to make your own decisions. So, those are reasons that President Obama will carry Colorado.”
Romney’s celebrated debate practice partner referred to the policy pamphlet released last week by Obama, repacking what the president has been saying on the campaign trail.
“He has a glossy new brochure. I’ve actually looked at that brochure and as you know I played the role of Obama during the debate preps. And it’s more of the same,” Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) said. “I mean, you know, you can argue we need to do more of the same but it hasn’t worked and hasn’t worked by President Obama’s own measurements.”
I wonder what tomfoolery the Post did to their sampling to show Obama up by 4 in VA?
http://www.unskewedpolls.com/
Wreak havoc? Only for the Dems. Repubs will be crawling over storm detritus, including broken glass, in order to vote out Obama. This may be literal crawling over broken glass.
“Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) noted an early voting rate of about 80 percent in his state.”
I call BS on that. I am in Colorado. Early voting is happening, but there is no way in hell that it is 80% of the votes. But this is, after all, Mark Udall from the People’s Republic of Boulder [our equivalent of Berkley, CA.]. He is a Leftist hack who if someone told the truth around him would react like a vampire finding out the pool he was diving into was filled with holy water.
We are going to take Colorado.
I have been doing politics actively for literally half a century here in Colorado.
There are things that are carved in stone, and if Democrats believed in a Deity; they would be part of their state 10 Commandments.
There are 3 counties in Colorado that verily will be Democrat, unto the ends of the world, until the Communists take over completely, or til the world runs out of money to support the 47%.
I. First amongst these is the People’s Republic of Boulder; where the true Marxist-Leninist faith prevails. There they mourn the fall of the Soviet Union, and have literally declared themselves a no nuclear weapons zone. They chose Dushambe [formerly Stalinibad], Tajikistan, USSR as their sister city specifically knowing that it was the home of the Soviet SDI research.
II. Second amongst these is the Democrat City and County of Denver, where ethnicity rules. Democrat-ruled for a century by different ethnic machines; first and longest Irish, then shortly Hispanic, and now Black. Verily, nought will be accomplished, except upon payments to the official and unofficial enablers of stuff. The counting of ballots there is an exercise in creative arithmetic.
III. Third amongst these is the County of El Pueblo. Hispanic in population, but ruled for the last century by Labor Union Democrats; first Irish, then Italian and “Bohunk” [Bohemian and Slovak]; power was centered around Colorado Fuel and Iron and its successor and supplying companies [CF&I was driven out of business by the unions, bought after being closed over 10 years, by Rocky Mountain Steel. The unions struck RMS at the first contract renewal before the plant had made its first profit after being modernized and reopened. They were locked out and the union was thrown out. Later it was bought by a Russian company now running it. Union strength has plummeted; however the local Democrats were taken over by the La Raza Unida Hispanic separatists. Many of their elected officials were the ones planting bombs for LRU in Denver in the 1970's.
These are the building blocks for any Democrat campaign here.
We knew that Obama was not popular there, both because of a 28% unemployment rate [hell, in my county we are at 20%], but also because Hispanics here are not too fond of Blacks. We knew that at the State Fair in Pueblo, the Democrat booth was mostly empty and the Republican booth was constantly packed [and we were fair amazed].
The local newspaper is the Pueblo Chieftain. They are hard core pro-Union, anti-employer, pro-Socialist, and worshiped at the altar of Obama.
Last Sunday, they released their formal endorsements. I ran into someone who saw them, who passed them on to me. I did not believe it and checked them online when I got home.
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN HAS ENDORSED EVERY REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE RUNNING ON THE BALLOT THERE EXCEPT FOR ONE [OUT OF 6] STATE HOUSE RACES. I DON’T THINK THAT THEY HAVE ENDORSED A REPUBLICAN FOR ANYTHING SINCE 1992.
The Chieftain is saying that Pueblo county “is a toss-up”.
I have never seen anything like this before here. Count our electoral votes for Romney, and we may get the legislature back and roll back some taxes.
Subotai Bahadur
My concern is that everything could be quite ready to go on Election Day, and the Dems will be trying to say they are not, or that selected areas (read Democratic) are going to need another day.
For I do not trust them. I personally see zero hope for PA. The Dems will use the storm as an excuse to get as much time as they need.