I told you guys Christie cares about our state. Consequently, when he's aggressive about representing us and getting help, his voice overrode all the negative Republican voices that were trying to silence him.

ended up playing better than the Powell endorsement

I heard a guy on local W.Va. rightwing radio call in this morning and say it flipped his vote.

while ignoring the fact that behaving like a competant, functional adult does wonders for demonstrating your capabilities as a leader.

This just stated that the hurricane response was the biggest factor in their vote. Did it follow up with the question "Was Obama's hurricane response favorable or unfavorable. In other words this was just asking about what they based their vote on. It could be that they thought he did a great job and voted for or he did a bad job and voted against. This is the question we need the answer to in order to put this entire 15% in our column.

Good point. However, it's somewhat hard to see how Obama's response could be read as anything but favorable. Even chris christie - who I do NOT trust any farther than I could throw my house - kept up what seemed like, and sounded like, sincere praise and appreciation for the treatment New Jersey received from this White House and this President. And he's done so for days. And then there's michael bloomberg's surprise endorsement - specifically BECAUSE he thought a mindset like Obama's would be far better at confronting the issue of climate change, and was prompted by the response to Hurricane Sandy.

Here's hoping there's a subtle note of head-smack - in the obvious comparison between how Democrats respond to disastrous hurricanes and how republi-CONS do. It couldn't have been more glaring, up to and including our old fiend "heckuva-job" brownie, weighing in like a true idiot, complaining that Obama's response was too quick. SHEESH!!!

Glad you're here! Yes, we do have to be extremely circumspect about polls, how they're worded, what they ask, who's paying for them, how do they tend to slant. Always! But taken in context, I'm guessing a comfortable majority of that 15% is ours. Maybe even all of it. Just a guess, but that's how it strikes me, considering all the elements at play around it.