Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Disaster Politics: In Middle of a Messy Election, a Nightmare Makes Landfall



It was a dark and stormy night....,when they get what little sleep they get these days, the people running the campaigns for president have more than enough fodder for nightmares. According to the NY Times worse, come daybreak, they realize their worst fears may yet come true. Under one scenario, the country could wind up with President Romney, right, and Vice President Biden.

Dancing in their heads are visions of recounts, contested ballots and lawsuits. The possibility that their candidate could win the popular vote yet lose the presidency. Even the outside chance of an Electoral College tie that throws the contest to Congress.  Now add to that parade of potential horrors one more: a freakish two-in-one storm that could, if the more dire forecasts prove correct, warp an election two years and $2 billion in the making.

Despite the meticulous planning, careful strategies, polling, advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts, the election could produce the sort of messy outcome that defies expectation and prognostication....

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