Hurricane Sandy disrupts campaign's final days
Updated 12:30 p.m. ET
AVON LAKE, Ohio As the East Coast prepared for Hurricane Sandy's landfall, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday turned his victory offices in North Carolina, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Virginia into collection centers for storm relief supplies. His campaign has also ceased fundraising emails to many of the states in the path of the storm.
Sandy causes schedule shuffling for Romney
Sandy forces Obama to cancel several campaign events
The record-breaking storm, which threatened Monday to do serious damage throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, threw a wrench into the final week of campaigning for both presidential candidates. President Obama cancelled an appearance at a rally in Orlando this afternoon to return to the White House to monitor storm response efforts.
The Republican's campaign cancelled events scheduled Monday night for Romney in Wisconsin and for running-mate Paul Ryan in Melbourne and Lakeland, Florida.
The Romney campaign also cancelled a scheduled rally in New Hampshire on Tuesday and three events in Virginia.
"Governor Romney believes this is a time for the nation and its leaders to come together to focus on those Americans who are in harm's way, said spokeswoman Gail Gitcho.
Romney said during a stop in Celina, Ohio, on Sunday, "I know that right now some people in the country are a little nervous about a storm about to hit the coast. And our thoughts and prayers are with the people who will find themselves in harm's way."
Romney has been in touch with Republican Govs. Chris Christie of New Jersey and Bob McDonnell of Virginia about their storm preparations. The candidate also sent a message to states in the path of the storm asking residents to be safe and to look out for their neighbors, and encouraging support for local Red Cross organizations. He also asked his supporters to bring their Romney-Ryan yard signs indoors.
"For safety's sake, as you and your family prepare for the storm, please be sure to bring any yard signs inside," Romney wrote in the message. "In high winds they can be dangerous, and cause damage to homes and property."
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Wacko Liberals will love this, the Lamestream press will absolutely go for it, and the Supreme Court will vote for it.
America's first coup d'etat and many will cheer for it; that's how far gone America is under the rule of Obama.
It's totally unconstitutional, of course, but when did that stop our little dictator?
Can't release those job numbers, no.
Why not send out the guard to shut down the polling places.
Can't have an election when the blue states have a rainstorm.
Wouldn't be prudent.
Not at this juncture.
Karl Rove and his Crossroads PAC is running freaking ads in Pa. (which is under water BTW) right now bashing the President to get some votes! Are you tea baggers insane? Unreal...
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Across the Great Land, bells are ringing.
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The 58 year old doctor in New Hampshire is once again, hopeful. Maybe he won't have to think about closing down his practice, anymore.
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In New Mexico, a Mexican-American landscaper loads up his truck and trailer with his equipment, listening to the news, preparing for the days work. Maybe now his business will pick up...maybe soon he will be able to rehire some good men he had to lay off.
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In California, a young father of two toddlers and a new born baby, who had immigrated from India twelve years ago with an engineering degree, thinks how he and his wife had made the right choice. He worries about his state of California, and the mess it is in. He hopes this election will somehow make a difference. Maybe he will have to move away to another state if it doesn't.
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deng..dong...DONG....DONG...deng..dong....DONG......DONG.....deng...dong....DONG....DONG
He can still hear the church bells ringing miles down the valley. He opens the gate to the mountain pasture to let the cows through. Their breaths form bursts of vapor in the cold November air.
He thinks this news is good. He's too young to understand, fully. But, he knows his Dad is elated. And, his Dad tells him the that his future has just been brightened by this election.....that it has been an historic election... they are going to talk about it, more.....his Dad tells him he must know everything, what it all means to him.... to his future...........He wants to know.
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