If it does affect the election, it will give a slight advantage to Obama. Flooding, road damage, power outages are more likely in rural and lightly populated suburbs, which are the home of the most virulent T-Thuglicans. Irene cut our power for 4 or 5 days last year.
Not looking forward to this storm.

etc. depending on how the path develops. There is early voting in North Carolina, so many votes have already been cast. My question is if none of the polling places can open on election day what laws are in place to move the election to another date.

It's supposed to turn inland further north.

Even if Obama is immediately on the job as he no doubt will be, Republicans will do everything they can to compare it to Katrina you just watch. I think Obama will come out looking good in the end, but the Republicans are hoping to hold Obama accountable for the weather because they know it is their last hope of winning.

votes will have to be hand counted? Could hope for something good to come out of it.

The OP did not say the storm would be bad for Obama. I simply posed a question, with an answer that could go either way to see what others might think.

This is a discussion board, after all.

I suppose you would prefer "Rah,Rah,Rah. Obama will win no matter what."

n/t

I think we will be okay. Hurricane Irene knocked out power in CT but the majority were on a week later and all the major debris was cleaned up by then.

Mitt can criticize him, but to no avail, since Obama has historically reacted quickly and effectively to the random violence of Mother Nature.

O can give $$$$ in federal disaster aide.