The more time goes by and this gets discussed on the airwaves, the greater the concern that ANY delay is going to throw such a massive monkey wrench into the political scene that it would be better to get cracking at figuring out how TO vote next Tuesday than to reschedule it.
While NJ Gov. Christie was correct in noting that at the moment his state had "bigger fish to fry" than worrying about the election, that will not necessarily be the situation by, say, the weekend. The same holds for the other states that are now engaged in disaster recovery. As long as Obama does not do to the vanilla cities what Bush did to the chocolate ones, there is a good chance that folks can be un-stranded in time to fill in a ballot while getting bottled water off the back of a NG truck.
Quite frankly, my personal view is that the storm and aftermath can do nothing to help Obama and may do enough to cause him to lose by a mandate. He must "act Presidential" but there is no way he can speed up relief/clean-up/recovery, let alone keep abreast of the toll as Sandy now sweeps towards the Great Lakes and threatens to literally tear down his home town, then sweep up to Minneapolis-St. Paul. (Honestly, I am greatly conflicted at the threat of Chicago, Madison, and St. Paul being flattened.) If you thought "Bush slow to respond" was ugly, think what it will be like when the entitlement classes are literally left cold and hungry by the Light-Bringer.
As I say, I am greatly conflicted.
stay safe.
