Campaign Plans Disrupted by Hurricane Sandy: 

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For months, the two presidential campaigns accept been animating for an October surprise, and it assuredly accustomed in the anatomy of rain, wind and snow coiled like a anchor 1,000 afar wide.
There has never been annihilation like it in avant-garde American history, a accustomed adversity so massive and so abutting to acclamation day, and for all their minutely-plotted moves there was annihilation for the candidates and their strategists to do but ad-lib and achievement for the best.
President Obama scrapped a attack actualization in Orlando, Fla., and abrupt aback to Washington to baby-sit the emergency acknowledgment to Hurricane Sandy. Speaking to reporters at the White House, he brushed abreast questions about the political implications.

"I'm not worried, at this point, about the appulse on the election," he said. "I'm afraid about the appulse on families. I'm afraid about the appulse on our aboriginal responders. I'm afraid about the appulse on our abridgement and on transportation. The acclamation will yield affliction of itself next week."

His Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, approved a antithesis amid political acute and affair for others. Campaigning in northeastern Ohio, he said a win in that Midwestern battlefield accompaniment would ensure achievement next Tuesday.

"We're counting on Ohio," he said in a stop alfresco Cleveland. But so are others, he said, advancement supporters to accord to the Red Cross or acquisition added means to give. "The humans in Ohio accept big hearts, so we're assured you to chase through and advice out," he said afore affective on to a stop in Iowa.

Obama alone his attack agenda for Tuesday and may do so above that. Romney planned a "storm abatement event" in Kettering, Ohio, breadth he beforehand advertised a attack stop. Both abeyant fundraising emails in a ample breadth afflicted by the storm.
But their TV ads blazed on, creating a arrant bond as the calefaction of the attack butted adjoin the abstaining warnings of emergency admiral and scenes of calamity and added accident from Hurricane Sandy.

"In what was already acceptable conceivably the a lot of capricious acclamation we've had in a generation, this adds one added akin of unpredictability," said Paul Maslin, a Democratic pollster in Wisconsin, addition of the home-stretch battlegrounds.

History suggests a few things. Fairly or not, Obama was treading the accomplished wire, back he is the face of Washington's response. He will be abstinent over the next anniversary in a way he has not been up to now.