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Hurricane Sandy Gives Obama Credibility to Win Presidency Again


Hurricane-Sandy.jpgI may wind up with a double yolk egg on my face, but that's why they pay me the big bucks. Here it goes:
 
Barack Obama will be re-elected in four days, Nov. 6. Obama will beat Mitt Romney in the popular election and also in Electoral College votes. The votes in both categories could be close, but I doubt it.
 
Super-storm Sandy created an estimated $50 billion property damage in the Northeast this week and Obama's immediate rush to assure the victims that he has ordered all federal government red tape to be cut will win him votes.
 
The storm also is expected to shrink the final voting turnout number for both candidates.  But the positive manner in which the federal government will go out of its way to help in the recovery effort will give Obama extra credibility. Any incumbent would receive the same positive treatment from voters, by the way.
 
The Huffington Post projects that as of Nov. 1, Obama has 277 Electoral College votes and Romney, 206.
 
A candidate must have at least 270 electoral votes to win because 270 is the majority of the 538 electoral votes. Even if Romney should win the Popular Vote, it is the Electoral College final vote that counts.
 
If there is a tie, the House of Representatives chooses the winner immediately, by ballot, according to the 12th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Many legislators have tried unsuccessfully in the past to revise this amendment so that the arcane Electoral College procedure is eliminated completely.
 
Right now, everyone is watching how voters react in Florida (29 Electoral College votes available); Virginia (13); Colorado (9); and New Hampshire (4). These are the so-called Swing States.
 
The Huffington Post projects Obama won Ohio's  crucial 18 Electoral College votes Nov. 1 by a 49 percent to 46 percent margin over Romney. No candidate has won the White House since 1960 without first winning Ohio, according to historians who monitor election trends.
 
Most of the Talking TV Heads say the arithmetic adds up to a clear Obama victory on the Electoral College front. But they have been wrong before, of course.
 
I personally don't like the idea of Obama remaining in the White House for another four years only because the Grand Old Radical Party will shut him down on every piece of new legislation, as they have done in the last four years.
 
They are obsessive about him. They don't like his personality. They don't like the way he speaks. They call him a Socialist. They call him anti-business, anti-trade and anti-environment.
 
They don't like anything about him. Well, that isn't exactly hot news because the Grand Old Radical Party has never liked anyone or anything but itself in over 200 years.
 
Without the two parties cooperating even a little, the current government will continue to plod along with a continuing flaccid economy for another four years. And the rest of the world will continue to wonder why a great country like the United States of America can't move at a faster pace in its own back yard.
 
If Romney were elected, he probably could get some bi-partisan action. But Romney's policies would kill the country financially, as President George W. Bush did in his eight years in office.
 
The rich would continue to grow richer. The so-called middle class, earning under $250,000 per year, would see little improvement to their lives.  And the poor would be buried. They won't have a chance under Romney and the Grand Old Radical Party undertakers.
 
Only one person can pull this country back to some reasonable healthy standards of life. That person is Hillary Rodham Clinton.
 
And although she vehemently denies it, I predict she will run for the presidency in 2016.  . Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, will, of course, be in the wings, helping when needed,  and possibly helping when not even needed. She has already said she is stepping down as Secretary of State in January. That will give her four years to prepare for the run to the White House.
 
The Clintons will once again rally their sagging Democratic Party's hopes and will be the only ones who can successfully cross the aisle in Congress and talk shop with Grand Old Radical Party boobs.
 
Maybe I'm hallucinating.  Maybe. But that's the way I see it over the next four years.


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