(This is one of the many reasons we need to go back to paper balloting in all states.)
But, of course, Romney is not obliged to assist. Obama is, because he’s president.
Har har, but we don’t take the subway to go to the polls.
Heh. Romney cancelled all of his campaign events because of Sandy. Instead he’s holding a “storm relief event”. In Ohio. At the same spot he already had an event planned.
Thankfully, it is looking more like it will be the Storm of the Year, since it is looking to be in the same ballpark as Hurricane Irene in 2011. (56 deaths, over $15 Billion in damage)
Just out of curiosity, does NYC smell any better now, after its bath?
You don’t? This is probably the stupidest question in the history of stupid, but how do New Yorkers get to the polls?
I would guess walk for the most part. I’m sure they have polling locations everywhere in an area that dense. I live in Chicago and my polling location is one block away from my house.
Walking. New York City is very pedestrian friendly and most polling places are at schools or other buildings that are going to be convenient to most people in the area. Our polling place is about two blocks away.
So, Michael “Brownie” Brown is stating that he thinks the Obama administrationresponded too quickly to the hurricane. That’s rich.
This photo shows you everything you need to know about Romney’s Totally Not a Campaign Rally “Storm Relief” Event.
‘At this rate we won’t even get to see any displaced New Jerseyans huddled together in the filth of the Giants football stadium,’ Brown said. ‘Where’s the fun in that?’
Could Obama’s hands-on response, coupled with the praise from people on the right (Christie) help push him over the top in Florida and North Carolina (two states that deal with hurricanes on the reg)? I think so, especially when coupled with Romney’s “Eff FEMA” stance.
I don’t think I’ve ever lived in an area where the polling location wasn’t within walking distance, whether than was a big city or a suburb. Granted, “walking distance” for me is longer than for some other folks, but in something so densely populated as New York City I’d imagine many folks travel a longer distance vertically to get out of their high rise apartment than horizontally along the sidewalk to reach their polling place.
Oh. Duh. Of course.
That looks really douchey.
It’s disgraceful, but I think it’s long been established that Romney doesn’t care about that. We’ll see if his views on FEMA remain an issue as the immediate crisis recedes from news coverage because that’s unlikely to help him.
Whaddya know, he’s gone silent on the issue and is ignoring questions:
Color me unsurprised.
Well, he might’ve been at a sacred site for Polish people. What matters is if people keep asking him about his position later this week.
Maybe they’ll ask him once per day and then plot his responses on a graph over time. That may be the only way that we’ll get some light shed on the exact structure of the Romney opinion probability wave form.
Edit: on second thought, once per day is far too few data points. Once per hour maybe would be helpful.
It’ll be a long time before the damage calculations are in for Sandy. Anyway, I said the Storm of the Century, not the Aftermath of the Century. The storm surge was three and a half feet higher than ever recorded in New York, and the barometric pressure was 15 or 20 millibars lower than the previous record. For this kind of a storm in this part of the country, Sandy is the worst and will be the one that all future storms will be measured against.