Chris Christie (R-NJ): Obama ‘outstanding’ in response to Hurricane Sandy

[Averroës Nix]

Obama's actually going to get a bit of a boost from this, if we want to look at this in political terms.  It WAS going to be 55-44.  Probably 56.5-42.5 now. 

No, it won't. Incumbents are always almost hurt for acts of God. As for the percentages, please, please tell me those are for NJ and not for the US.

Actually, if anything affects the election it will be how well the federal government manages its response. And unless it looks either very good or very bad, I'm skeptical of claims that Sandy will have a substantial influence on the results of the election.

[ajb]

As much as anything, Christie's praise of Obama's handling of the storm neutralizes any possible attempt by the Republicans and/or FOX News, etc, to attack Obama for his handling of the storm. Which, presumably, is something they'd be ready to do if they had the slightest basis for doing it.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

As much as anything, Christie's praise of Obama's handling of the storm neutralizes any possible attempt by the Republicans and/or FOX News, etc, to attack Obama for his handling of the storm. Which, presumably, is something they'd be ready to do if they had the slightest basis for doing it.

Not the GOP per se... but that one would certainly be farmed out to Fox News for the weekend+Monday. 

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Obama's actually going to get a bit of a boost from this, if we want to look at this in political terms.  It WAS going to be 55-44.  Probably 56.5-42.5 now.  

No, it won't. Incumbents are always almost hurt for acts of God. As for the percentages, please, please tell me those are for NJ and not for the US.

Um... I take it you're too young to remember the effect of the Bush's response to Hurricane Charely in Florida in 2004?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Oh, and no reports at all of looting... further proving NJ is about 10,000x more awesome than we are given credit for. 

Or it could be proving that you have nothing worth looting.

[memphis]

It's a lot better than the Katrina response, that's for sure.

I'm sure that Sandy is a major pain right now, but this disaster isn't remotely comparable to the scale of devastation in Katrina. It's like comparing the 1989 San Francisco earthquake to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

First he tells Todd Akin to "drop out of public life," and now this. He's got a pretty strong no-BS marketing plan going on right now, doesn't he? Sort of the "anti-Romney," no?

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Oh, and no reports at all of looting... further proving NJ is about 10,000x more awesome than we are given credit for. 

Or it could be proving that you have nothing worth looting.

Our disgusting malls have plenty of overpriced goods to swipe... maybe we should have descended into anarchy for a day.... I wish an angry mob would clean out the Cherry Hill Mall.  Not so much in the name of social justice... more because I just hate that place.  

[Eraserhead]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/30/chris-christie-hurricane_n_2042834.html

[America™]

Why does everything have to have a political framework?  He seems tired as hell and stressed out with what's going on there, to think his praising of Obama was anything other than genuine appreciation in that horrible situation is absurd.

This. And nothing but this.

The fact that people are even relating this to politics is rather sickening.

[You kip if you want to...]

Christie probably wants Obama to win, to be fair, so that he can run in 2016...

[HagridOfTheDeep]

And, of course, Romney is the slippery one.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

And, of course, Romney is the slippery one.

Yeah, Christie's fat is internal.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Why does everything have to have a political framework?  He seems tired as hell and stressed out with what's going on there, to think his praising of Obama was anything other than genuine appreciation in that horrible situation is absurd.

This. And nothing but this.

The fact that people are even relating this to politics is rather sickening.

This is the 2012 board... the shallowness and constant relation to politics is assumed.  Surely you must have expected this if you've spent more than 5 minutes here.  I merely tried to guide this inevitably in a somewhat palatable direction. 

[Mr. Morden]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/30/chris-christie-hurricane_n_2042834.html

Freudian slip.  He said that he "could care less" about the election, rather than "couldn't care less".  That means that he actually does care about the election quite a bit.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

Chris Christie's storm response and no BS policies have gained him my support in (God willing) the 2016 Republican Primaries and General Election, unless we have an actually strong nominee.

[Dan the Roman]

The real impact of this will be in the media coverage. Romney has lost three days. Lost them almost completely. I watched CNN at lunch for over an hour and Romney's name was not mentioned once, the Tuesday before the election. Christie will tour the damaged areas with Obama tomorrow, guaranteeing Obama an extra-day of positive media. He has been coy on whether he will even welcome Romney to the state to do the same the following day.

Christie's behavior makes it much easier for Obama to continue the Sandy storyline into Thursday at which point it will be supplanted by the jobs report on Friday. Any campaign stops Romney makes, or any attacks he launches while Obama is doing "storm response" will be looked upon as improper, as even Republican governor Chris Christie thinks so.

Assuming a good jobs report, this event basically let Obama neutralize Romney's entire campaign fundraising advantage for the last week of the election, and the power outages pretty much killed any thought of Romney going into PA.

[Mr.Phips]

The real impact of this will be in the media coverage. Romney has lost three days. Lost them almost completely. I watched CNN at lunch for over an hour and Romney's name was not mentioned once, the Tuesday before the election. Christie will tour the damaged areas with Obama tomorrow, guaranteeing Obama an extra-day of positive media. He has been coy on whether he will even welcome Romney to the state to do the same the following day.

Christie's behavior makes it much easier for Obama to continue the Sandy storyline into Thursday at which point it will be supplanted by the jobs report on Friday. Any campaign stops Romney makes, or any attacks he launches while Obama is doing "storm response" will be looked upon as improper, as even Republican governor Chris Christie thinks so.

Assuming a good jobs report, this event basically let Obama neutralize Romney's entire campaign fundraising advantage for the last week of the election, and the power outages pretty much killed any thought of Romney going into PA.

Obama lost three days as well. 

[Eraserhead]

The real impact of this will be in the media coverage. Romney has lost three days. Lost them almost completely. I watched CNN at lunch for over an hour and Romney's name was not mentioned once, the Tuesday before the election. Christie will tour the damaged areas with Obama tomorrow, guaranteeing Obama an extra-day of positive media. He has been coy on whether he will even welcome Romney to the state to do the same the following day.

Christie's behavior makes it much easier for Obama to continue the Sandy storyline into Thursday at which point it will be supplanted by the jobs report on Friday. Any campaign stops Romney makes, or any attacks he launches while Obama is doing "storm response" will be looked upon as improper, as even Republican governor Chris Christie thinks so.

Assuming a good jobs report, this event basically let Obama neutralize Romney's entire campaign fundraising advantage for the last week of the election, and the power outages pretty much killed any thought of Romney going into PA.

Obama lost three days as well. 

No, he hasn't. He's been all over the TV and will continue to be.

[Mr.Phips]

The real impact of this will be in the media coverage. Romney has lost three days. Lost them almost completely. I watched CNN at lunch for over an hour and Romney's name was not mentioned once, the Tuesday before the election. Christie will tour the damaged areas with Obama tomorrow, guaranteeing Obama an extra-day of positive media. He has been coy on whether he will even welcome Romney to the state to do the same the following day.

Christie's behavior makes it much easier for Obama to continue the Sandy storyline into Thursday at which point it will be supplanted by the jobs report on Friday. Any campaign stops Romney makes, or any attacks he launches while Obama is doing "storm response" will be looked upon as improper, as even Republican governor Chris Christie thinks so.

Assuming a good jobs report, this event basically let Obama neutralize Romney's entire campaign fundraising advantage for the last week of the election, and the power outages pretty much killed any thought of Romney going into PA.

Obama lost three days as well. 

No, he hasn't. He's been all over the TV and will continue to be.

No, he hasnt.  Most of the coverage has been on the storm itself.  All he did was give a so-called "update" earlier today. 

[Mehmentum]

Obama has the advantage though, so the status quo is good enough for him.

[Mr.Phips]

Obama has the advantage though, so the status quo is good enough for him.

The race is a pure tossup.  Obama is at best tied in Colorado and Virginia and has tiny leads in Ohio, Iowa, and New Hampshire, where he is under 50% in each one. 

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Obama has the advantage though, so the status quo is good enough for him.

The race is a pure tossup.  Obama is at best tied in Colorado and Virginia and has tiny leads in Ohio, Iowa, and New Hampshire, where he is under 50% in each one. 

I spend way too much time, that is, about 30 seconds, trying to figure you out.

[Eraserhead]

Obama has the advantage though, so the status quo is good enough for him.

The race is a pure tossup.  Obama is at best tied in Colorado and Virginia and has tiny leads in Ohio, Iowa, and New Hampshire, where he is under 50% in each one. 

Romney has to win more of those than Obama does.

[Maxwell]

First he tells Todd Akin to "drop out of public life," and now this. He's got a pretty strong no-BS marketing plan going on right now, doesn't he? Sort of the "anti-Romney," no?

didn't EVERY republican tell Todd Akin to do that though?