Nate Silver: GOP Can't Blame Sandy

[berni_mccoy]

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com

If I had told you in January that Mr. Obama’s approval rating would have risen close to 50 percent by November, and that the unemployment rate would have dropped below 8 percent, you likely would have inferred that Mr. Obama was a favorite for re-election, with or without a hurricane and what was judged to be a strong response to it.

This is not to dismiss the effects of the hurricane entirely. But the fact that Mr. Obama’s rebound in the polls has been slow and steady, rather than sudden, would lend weight to some of these other ideas, even if they make for less dramatic narratives.

There goes another excuse out the door for the failed policies of the GOP. I don't expect them to stop trying to blame the storm, but hey, at least someone called them out on it before they could effectively use it. Keep this in mind if you hear a RWer try to use it.

[liberalmuse]

1. Nate is ruthless.

Facts are like kryptonite to Republicans.

[BlueStreak]

2. And what if it was Hurricane Sandy?

Well, that can only mean that GOD decided that Obama should be reelected.

I thought those right-wingers are all God-fearing Christians.