The post-disaster struggle to find juice for the cellphone … in pictures.
With the election three days off, a growing chorus of Republican operatives and pundits are saying Sandy may be the game changer. Karl Rove says it’s turning out to be the “October surprise.”
“If you hadn’t had the storm, there would have been more of a chance for the [Mitt] Romney campaign to talk about the deficit, the debt, the economy. There was a stutter in the campaign. When you have attention drawn away to somewhere else, to something else, it is not to his [Romney’s] advantage,” told the Post in an interview published late last night. Read More
NOAA is compiling satellite photos of Sandy’s destructive swath. Zoom in, pan, scan the places you know.
By way of example, one of the images, of Great Kills Harbor, on Staten Island, which shelters several marinas, shows docks and boats strewn everywhere. A Google Maps image shows the same area before Sandy.
Some more good before and afters from the WSJ.
The AJC’s Jay Bookman has a piece up this morning about the travails of a 97-year-old Georgia woman trying to secure a Georgia voter ID card so that she can vote Tuesday.
As Republicans look into the collective maw of the Four Unicorns of the Apocalypse, we’re hearing yet another line: Chris Christie may in fact be the Unicorn. Or more likely the Horseman on the White Unicorn. Regardless of whether he’s riding the Unicorn or whether he is the Unicorn he looks set to be another explanation of why Obviously Losing Obama (OLO) suddenly seems more likely to win. Read More
Christie says he’s “still very satisfied” with Obama disaster response.
Early voting site evacuated in Winter Park, Florida after emergency personnel were called about a suspicious package. No sign yet that’s it’s actually a device. Just precautionary. Police and Fire Depts currently investigating.
Today’s charts on the big races around the country. Three days out. Here they are.
We’re bring you developments as they happen here. A second suspicious package was found at that early voting center in Winter Park, Florida. It has now also been detonated by local authorities. We’ll bring you more when we have it.
Late Update: Police give all clear.
Three days out from election day. How are you feeling? What do you expect on Tuesday night?