Could this hurricane and blizzard affect election day?

Yes, election day could be affected, especially if schools and churches are underwater and there is no electricity.

I seriously doubt that there are ANY emergency plans.

Maybe.

But the storm should be on it’s way out by tomorrow, a full week before the election.

I personally don’t think the damage will be extensive enough as to take more than a week to get polling locations back up to snuff.

Personally, my neighborhood is shut down for days with storms. Getting polling places up with much of the northeast broken down, with millions !!!!! It will take much more than a week.

I hope all the Jellies who are feeling the storm are high, dry and safe.

There is over 4 million without power, over a million in NY state alone. My uncle in WV has over 2 ft of snow. I am truly concerned about the ramification of election.

538 had an article about this today. He couldn’t figure it out. It seems like the storm would be likely to repress as much Republican as Democratic vote. It’ll repress Republican vote in central PA, but PA is going democrat, anyway. It’ll repress the WV vote, but they are solid Republicans no matter what the turnout it. Similarly, NY is solid democrat, no matter what the turnout it. So it seems unlikely that the storm will affect things overall.

YES!!! This could be the much awaited “October Surprise”!

Prediction: Obama will be very Presidential and concerned about it all.

Romney will claim he could do a better job at being concerned AND still give the top 1% more tax breaks.

Would you feel personally insulted if you were not able to vote because of natural disaster? There should be provisions in place.

I doubt it will play a major role, so much as it will play a minor annoyance by election day. With a week to go I’m quite confident that all the areas effected will have their clean up jobs well underway, and far enough along to not impede voting next Tuesday.

This could effect early voter turnout. But most of the states hit by the storm are firmly in Obama’s camp to begin with. The only two where I would even think that to be an issue would be my Ohio and neighboring Pennsylvania. Here in Ohio I heard on the radio today that my county (Franklin) will still hold early voting today, and we’re in the middle of the state. So if it’s impeded anywhere more drastically I would expect it’s the south east of the state (near West Virginia, where the bad snow is). The area leans heavily Republican. Across Pennsylvania there is crappy weather…. but in all I don’t think it will really matter.