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God attacks Democrats and Obama?

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This could go on many different boards, and the REAL topic is to you think Hurricane Sandy will affect the election outcome?

On a humorous note:An evangelical fundamentalist in a group said "God is sending fowl weather against the heathen Democrats." I had to laugh.

But this is quite an rarity. Being in Florida we are certainly familiar with Hurricanes. But all the way up to Maryland? That's NOT common at all. But wait, it's much worse!

As the heavily Democratic Northeast and New England open up their polls, the entire region is hit with a "megastorm."

1. The remnants of Hurricane Sandy - carrying huge amounts of water will hit at 40 to 50 mph. BUT in addition...
2. A cold wind out of the West is going to collide at the same time creating a "superstorm" plus
3. Very frigid air also will collide with that coming out of Canada - turning it into a "megastorm" and maybe nearly an 800 mile wide mega-sized super cold tornado - PLUS
4. There will be a full moon meaning MAXIMUM HIGH TIDE being pushed with the high winds and hurricane tidal force causing potential high flooding along with possible unseasonal heavy snowfall.

Hmmm... Sounds like a Mormon conspiracy along with a strong assist from Catholic priests with God against the evil heathen Democrats to me. :lol:

Dou you think this rare, "coincidental" God-awful coming "MEGASTORM" against New England and the Northeast will affect the election outcome?
 
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Was waiting for this crackpot theory to be posted..... /yawn.
 
I'm so sorry to have kept you waiting.

I would venture to say you know nothing of American voting patterns in relation to weather. Pretty much recognized over here by both political parties.

Republican's pray for bad weather.
But an incumbent can use bad weather to come in to rescue the day with Federal Disaster Aid.

I was really asking if any American voters felt this might affect the election? And if so, how?
 
The WH and DNC has been urging folks to vote early due to this.
 
I'm not sure how it will affect it. But I have to say, it is no more ignorant of a theory than, all Republicans are pig headed racist white people out to control everyone else because God told them to do it. :lol:
 
No polls should be closed because of this. If someone goes through a hurricane to vote, he/she should be able to. Alternatively, if even ONE poll in a state is closed, all must be closed and if one polling place in a state has extended hours, then all polling places in the state should have identical extended hours.
 
I'm so sorry to have kept you waiting.

I would venture to say you know nothing of American voting patterns in relation to weather. Pretty much recognized over here by both political parties.

Republican's pray for bad weather.
But an incumbent can use bad weather to come in to rescue the day with Federal Disaster Aid.

I was really asking if any American voters felt this might affect the election? And if so, how?

It's doing a fine job of keeping Benghazi on the back burner, don't you think? That may be the storm's more powerful effect on the election.
 
It's doing a fine job of keeping Benghazi on the back burner, don't you think? That may be the storm's more powerful effect on the election.

Maggie - in several threads on this site there seems to be a frustration, perhaps even anger on the part of conservatives and republicans that what they see as the latest cause celebre of the right is NOT shared or embraced by the American people. we saw much the same thing with Fast&Furious and its failure to catch on as the red hot burning issue that the right hoped and expected it to be.

Perhaps the right needs to look at the envelope they live in and come to the realization that most Americans do NOT share the reality that they have carefully constructed for themselves?
 
Maggie - in several threads on this site there seems to be a frustration, perhaps even anger on the part of conservatives and republicans that what they see as the latest cause celebre of the right is NOT shared or embraced by the American people. we saw much the same thing with Fast&Furious and its failure to catch on as the red hot burning issue that the right hoped and expected it to be.

Perhaps the right needs to look at the envelope they live in and come to the realization that most Americans do NOT share the reality that they have carefully constructed for themselves?

I was never "into" Fast & Furious. Frankly, I still don't know what they were talking about.

Benghazi, on the other hand, speaks to me loud and clear. Somebody told our military to stand down. There is absolutely no doubt in mind at all. If it was Obama, as I suspect it was, then the American people have a right to know that.

In my opinion, every American should want to know what, if any, decisions were made to leave those people blowing in the wind. Dragging a dead Ambassador through the streets of Benghazi is a horrific sight to see.
 
The only one I see having a major impact on is PA. The storm looks to park right over the top of eastern PA which will surely damper early voting drives. I'd wager that this would hurt Obama a bit more than Romney as the western portion of the state tends to be a bit more conservative. Horrible timing for Obama as Romney has closed the gap a bit in PA. NY, CT, RI, MA results will likely not be impacted much at all.
 
I was never "into" Fast & Furious. Frankly, I still don't know what they were talking about.

Benghazi, on the other hand, speaks to me loud and clear. Somebody told our military to stand down. There is absolutely no doubt in mind at all. If it was Obama, as I suspect it was, then the American people have a right to know that.

In my opinion, every American should want to know what, if any, decisions were made to leave those people blowing in the wind. Dragging a dead Ambassador through the streets of Benghazi is a horrific sight to see.

Trouble is, the right-wing media sources are jumping wildly at any rumor that might even possibly look bad for the President. Half of what you think you know about the situation probably isn't true.

For example, the CIA denies telling anyone to stand down. The Secretary of Defense said the attack was over before anyone had the information needed to act. What do you really know?
 
I really was waiting for the "The hurricaine is an excuse for Obama to cancel the elections, declare himself emporer and send us all to FEMA camps." thread. Bet they are thinking it. hehe.
 
It's doing a fine job of keeping Benghazi on the back burner, don't you think? That may be the storm's more powerful effect on the election.

Benghazi is on the back burner because there's nothing new to report, but the broader point is that this may end up benefitting Obama in several ways. First, contrary to right wing opinion, Obama is leading this race. Romney needs to swing the needle a percentage point or two, and in order to do that he needs the country's attention. Some of that attention will now be drawn to Hurricane Sandy.

Second, this gives Obama an opportunity to look presidential, assuming that there isn't some kind of Katrina-style screwup. Recall that during the debates Romney said that he would like to abolish FEMA and give that responsibility to the states. I don't think that's going to be very popular on the eastern seaboard this week.

OTOH ...

It could benefit Romney in Virginia and Pennsylvania. Generally speaking Democratic voter turnout is suppressed more by difficult weather conditions than Republican turnout. Democrats show up in bigger numbers in early voting, which may be curtailed (not sure what the states' schedules are). Probably not enough to tip PA, but it could tip VA.
 
I was never "into" Fast & Furious. Frankly, I still don't know what they were talking about.

Benghazi, on the other hand, speaks to me loud and clear. Somebody told our military to stand down. There is absolutely no doubt in mind at all. If it was Obama, as I suspect it was, then the American people have a right to know that.

In my opinion, every American should want to know what, if any, decisions were made to leave those people blowing in the wind. Dragging a dead Ambassador through the streets of Benghazi is a horrific sight to see.

I do think people want to know what happened but at the same time, people also know that when it comes to foreign intrigue, they are often only looking at shadows on the cave wall and will never get the real story.

Matters of detailed foreign policy are never going to catch on like domestic issues have the capacity to catch on with the public. I suspect many Americans look at those parts of the world as a cesspool where you take your chances when you try to swim there and there is no much you can do otherwise.

I find it interesting that going back four years to the original Obama election the far right throws up all these issues that they think are going to galvanize the public against Obama but somehow they never seem to catch on. Bill Ayers and the silly "palling around with terrorists' was one, and Rev Wright was another. Outside of the right, nobody really seemed to put much store in it all. The same with Fast/Furious and now this.

All this underscores my belief that we do not live in the same America. People on the far right live in a fantasy land of their own making and its not the same place the vast majority of people live in. Now make no mistake, as the national mood becomes more and more polarized and the center disappears, those on the far right grow in numbers and in power and in influence. But they still do not live in the same America that the rest of us do.
 
The only one I see having a major impact on is PA. The storm looks to park right over the top of eastern PA which will surely damper early voting drives. I'd wager that this would hurt Obama a bit more than Romney as the western portion of the state tends to be a bit more conservative. Horrible timing for Obama as Romney has closed the gap a bit in PA. NY, CT, RI, MA results will likely not be impacted much at all.

Ha ironic that early polling the week before the election in PA may still be goofed up for the dems after all the litigation and effort.
 
This could go on many different boards, and the REAL topic is to you think Hurricane Sandy will affect the election outcome?
It might reinforce the idea that global warming is causing more intense weather activity......and remind any victims of this storm that Romney wants to end FEMA.
 
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