And therefore God’s will, as far as I can tell. Fox is busy trying to spin Romney’s colossal failure on the storm, saying that it interrupted his momentum. Since the right is all about God punishing the evil liberals by visiting hurricanes, tornadoes and the like upon them, this would seem to mean that God wanted Obama to win. I see no fault in this logic.
Democrats: God’s New Most Favored Children
Maybe they shouldn’t leave it to the last week to try and win. Or maybe the storm also highlighted what is horrible about Mitt and why Obama is actually a good President. Or maybe they are full of shit, because Mitt’s momentum had ceased weeks before.
I don’t think too many Republicans will really stick to this story. It’s just crap. The pollsters who correctly forecast the election results also noted that things broke Obama’s way before Sandy. The storm didn’t do Romney any favors but it’s not responsible for his loss. And it also really hurt turnout in two states where Obama got about 60 percent of the vote.
The blatant liberal bias of Hurricanes recently has been rather suspicious. Maybe Pat Robertson was half-right, and that God is sending Hurricanes to help homosexuals?
Sandy definitely did help Obama. But he was already favoured to win and becoming more so with time even before the Hurricane hit, so I suspect he would’ve won in anycase. And the performance of Dems in Senate races supports this, its hard to see how the Hurricane would’ve helped John Tester in Montana. People were just in a Dem voting mood this election.
Plus, its kind of a silly complaint that Hurricane Sandy helped Obama because it helped show Americans that he was good at his job. After all, Katrina showed that Hurricanes are hardly an automatic positive to a Presidents approval rating.
Maddow pointed out the silliness of the claim last night. The Reuter’s poll, which was the most consistently accurate poll throughout the silly season, showed Obama with a 3 point lead prior to Sandy and a 1-2 point lead after and going into election day. She also said that if the right wishes to continue to sneer at the math that pollsters use, they are more than encouraged to do so through the next election cycle.
I will go out on a limb here and say that Sandy did have some effect.
No, not that it showed Obama wandering through rubble, nor Christie showing himself to be human for a minute; rather, it took the election OFF the headlines for a few days - period.
It gave people a short breather to think about the election without hundreds of talking heads talking about how this candidate moved his elbow in that direction and the other candidate wore a blue shirt instead of red and blah blah blah.
I think people had a minute to relax and really think for a minute without having idiots scream at them about election election election.
Still, I don’t think the results would have changed if there had been no storm, but it did give the voters a few minutes to actually think in peace. Sort of like the parents who finally get their toddler to sleep…they can spend a few glorious minutes without the screaming in the background.
If they want to make that claim, then they need to stare this in the face;
If you are claiming that an Act of God cost your candidate the race.
And you believe God sends messages in natural disasters.
Then you must believe that God wanted Obama to win.
Fox News has finally become my favorite channel. 
That and I am now at with peace with God. 
This has been a great week.
And taking the focus off the election helped Obama because he was in the lead. But there isn’t any particular reason to think Romney otherwise would have been able to use those days to turn everything around and take Ohio and Florida and Pennsylvania and so on.
According to the polls, he actually lost ground during that week.
Sean Hannity said the same thing, so it must be true.
If you’re responding to my previous post, I was referring to Obama (not Romney) losing a bit of ground during Sandy. Or, in plain English, Fox is full of shit.
Sorry, I was responding to the OP: “Obama’s victory was Sandy’s fault.”
But of course! Obama is the Antichrist after all; he had to win, or he couldn’t bring about the Obamapocalypse!
Who is “they”? Is there someone specifically that said God sends messages through natural disasters and said Sandy gave Obama the election.
I’m always suspicious of sentences with pronouns without clear antecedents.
Let them believe that. I don’t mind. If they blame everything on Sandy, then they’ll have no reason to readjust their positions on immigration, gay rights, reproductive rights and so on. And they’ll continue to alienate people like me who otherwise like a lot of what republicans stand for, making it anathema to vote for them.
I wish this could be up on a billboard right outside the Capitol.
I’m in the same boat: I admire fiscal conservatism and limited government, but do NOT admire the Platform of Evil that the far right has adopted.
It’s a good thing for people like us that the Democrats pretty much are the party of Reagan and so forth these days, even if they don’t want to admit it.
What I don’t get… OK, so the storm provided an opportunity for Obama to act Presidential, in the public eye. Yeah, I’ll agree that that made a difference at the ballot box (it probably didn’t sway the election, but it contributed). But it didn’t make him Presidential, it just gave him an opportunity to show it. Even if we hadn’t had the storm, he would still have had the capability of responding well to it, and presumably the capability to respond well to disasters is something we want in a President. So how is it a problem that the storm showed us that?
Not a problem at all. I doubt it made any difference at the ballot box; he won by over 3 million votes, after all. My OP is tongue-in-cheek.