Rove Blames Sandy For Election Loss

[Dedicated Mind]

the excuses are starting to roll in. No talk about trickle down voodoo economics as the reason.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2069252.html

[deacon blues]

So......

The economy is bad, unemployment moved back up last month, the growth is still sluggish, no real improvement and a hurricane that hits areas that are in Obama's hip pocket changes the election how? People out of work before the hurricane are still out of work. The economy was sluggish before Sandy, sluggish after Sandy. Obama was a bad president before the storm, he is after the storm.

Enjoy your weekend and your extra hour of sleep DM. You're going to need the rest. Tuesday is going to be a looonnngggg night for you and the Dems.

[Nitehawk013]

I don't think the election will be a blow out either way. I wonder though, how do peopel think Sandy will effect the outcome in helping Obama? The areas hit are all as blue as blue gets. Romney wasn't goign to win the east coast no matter what. So how does Sandy help or hurt Obama? He will still win those states

[Aquila]

Hmmmm... so an "act of God" may have defeated Romney.

Interesting...

[Jermyn Davidson]

Originally Posted by Aquila

Hmmmm... so an "act of God" may have defeated Romney.

Interesting...

This thought came across my mind too-- but I didn't want to verbalize it until after the election. It is still too close to call, imo.

[deacon blues]

Will it be "an act of God" if Obama loses?

[deacon blues]

Dick Morris on this subject:

Natural disasters usually follow the same political trajectory: First the incumbent experiences a bounce as he tours the impacted area, shows his concern, and pledges help to his beleaguered constituents. But then reality sets in and the shortages, delays, mishaps, deaths, and devastation becomes apparent and people turn against the incumbent.

George W. Bush had his Katrina.

And now Barack Obama has his Sandy.

Last week, Obama asserted a kind of ownership of the storm by touring New Jersey in the now infamous embrace of Republican stalwart Governor Chris Christie. Now that we are all appalled by the lack of food, gas, water, heat, and the basic essentials of life throughout the storm zone, Obama’s government doesn’t look so good anymore.
Why didn’t FEMA stockpile food, water, and gasoline? We had a week’s notice to prepare for Sandy. There was no shortage of time. Did the government not realize that people needed to eat, drink, and drive?

All throughout America, we are asking these questions of our television sets as we watch the evolving story of human misery.

Meanwhile, Obama has resumed the campaign trail, pounding the opposition in the same relentless and partisan style which he used before the storm. When Obama said that voting was “the best revenge,” he threw away whatever presidentiality he displayed in touring storm damage earlier in the week.

As he entered the last week before the Congressional election of 1994, President Clinton returned to the U.S. after having presided over the signing of a peace treaty between Israel and Jordan. He called me on his return and asked where he should campaign? Which incumbent Democrats should he try to help get re-elected?

I told him he should not campaign for any of them.

“No, you don’t understand,” he explained. I just came back from the Middle East and my ratings are up ten points. Before, I would have hurt the candidates I campaigned for, but not now. Now I can help them.”

“Your ratings are up because your trip hyped your presidentiality. Now, if you start campaigning, you’ll look like a politician and your ratings will come down again. You’ll end up doing more harm than good to those you are trying to help.”

He disregarded the advice and lost both houses of Congress in the elections.

Now Obama is making the same mistake. By campaigning, particularly by using the same harsh partisan rhetoric which has characterized his campaign, Obama is dragging down his ratings and with it his chances of victory.

Particularly when we see the juxtaposition of the mounting disaster in New York and New Jersey and the President out on the campaign trail attacking his opponents, we realize that Obama is a candidate before he is president, more worried about his second term than the welfare of his constituents.

In yesterday’s polling numbers, I saw a rise in Obama’s ratings and warned that the race was far from over. Now, we see him throwing it all away and resuming his crash into a single term presidency.

[crakjak]

Originally Posted by deacon blues

Dick Morris on this subject:

Dick Morris has been doing this a long time, I hope he is right!!!

[Jay]

Romney wins New York do to Hurricane Sandy suppressing Democratic turnout. New York legislature collapses into Republican hands. I would love to see that as I headline.