outside the glass the whole world is magnified

Reading the comments on Scalzi's election post-mortem got me wondering if the Republicans aren't right, in a way, about Hurricane Sandy playing a decisive role in the election. The thing is, they say that like it's not a legitimate factor - but it totally is. Days before the election, people got to see Obama gracefully handling a crisis. I might be a cynical bitca, but watching him interact with Christie definitely got to me - it was so decent, so mature, so responsible, on both sides, and it was like seeing how government could be. And then, in sharp contrast, Mitt Romney giving "volunteers" "donations" they could "give" to those effected by the storm. Fake charity, a sense of partisan one-upsmanship. With the spectre of Katrina hanging over everything, people's memories of how it went down when there was a Repub in office. You start thinking about what it would be like to ride out a crisis with Mittens on the blower, and you realize that in fact that would suck. And then you vote on the strength of that realization. I don't see how that's in any way a bad method of choosing a candidate.