Saturday thoughts before Tuesday's election

As election day is a mere three days away, it seems that every TV station I turn on or any website I go to, there is something about the election, whether it be a political advertisement or a message to voters on various proposals or candidates. This is the first election I can remember that is this close. It is an up and down race, where one day Obama is in the lead and the next, Romney is. With all this back and forth, it is hard to predict what will happen on election day this year. Cnn.com reports that on October 31, Obama was at 48% and Romney was at 47%, in terms of voters' choice for President. This is shocking to me and tells me that the battleground states are going to be extremely important in this election. I also predict that there are going to be many more ads, both attack and positive, for both candidates to make sure their reputations stay in the forefront of peoples' minds. I also think people will be looking at how both candidates responded to Hurricane Sandy and this could create a landslide of voting towards one candidate or the other. As was discussed in class, Obama has been said to have been responding extremely well to this disaster and Senator Barbara Boxer, who wrote an article for the Huffington Post titled "Hurricane Sandy Shows the Stark Choice in This Election", that Obama "began declaring emergencies even before the storm began so that states would have the security of knowing" they would have the resources they needed to recover. What this disaster has also brought to light is Romeny's proposed budget cuts that would greatly affect FEMA and his views on national disaster relief. I truly believe that people will take all this information deeply into account and this could lead to a second term for Obama. I think this could not only sway votes in his favor in the battleground states but in the states devastated by the hurricane.


http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2012/10/politics/poll.of.polls/index.html?hpt=hp_abar
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-barbara-boxer/hurricane-shows-stark-ele_b_2050755.html