Sid Salter: Hurricane could affect election outcome
What about the impact of this storm on the coming presidential election? Yes, the election is just under a month away, but we’re talking about a storm that is doing life-changing damage in the lives of millions of American along the Atlantic seaboard….
…Already, pundits are arguing the “Matthew effect” and spinning it every possibly way. Republicans argue that because much of the high-impact counties in Florida voted Democratic in 2012, the storm would benefit Trump in that state. Democrats say the attention diverted from the campaign to the storm will “freeze” the race where it was prior to the hurricane making landfall — with Clinton with a small lead in Florida.
Still others argue that early voting in Florida greatly negates the impact of the storm on the election’s outcome. Regardless, the hurricane’s impact is now part of the narrative of the stretch run in the 2016 presidential election.
Clarion Ledger
10/9/16
