How Hurricane Sandy Could Matter on Election Day
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 09:16 AM EDT
I’ll speak to three possibilities, just for starters: 1) Sandy hurts Obama. As Larry Bartels wrote about a few months ago, incumbent presidents can be punished for natural disasters, including floods. Of course, a lot hinges on whether serious damage hits the key battleground states in Sandy’s path: Virginia and Pennsylvania, plus probably New Hampshire [...]