THE ADVERSITY OF HURRICANE SANDY RESHAPES THE FINAL WEEK OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2012............

The devastation and destruction caused by the intensity of Monday night's Hurricane Sandy on the Mid-Atlantic and NorthEastern States in the USA has effectively stopped the Presidential campaign between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama as we knew it, and reshaped the manner in which both nominees are able to complete the final days of what is a very tight race in the face of the highly substantial adversity being faced by tens of millions of Americans as a result of this natural disaster.  News reports this morning are that President Obama will be touring the damage caused the supoer storm with Governor Chris Christie in New Jersey, carrying out his role as the President, and that Governor Romney will be resuming his Presidential campaign to some degree, while dealing with the sensitivity and changed dynamic the emergency has created, especially given his previous Republican Primary Debate response to the best way of handling disaster relief, in which he stated preference to leave such efforts to the States not the Federal Government, and when possible to turn it over to the private sector.   The latest CBS News- New York Times-Quinnipiac University Poll out this morning of swing States Ohio, Virginia, and Florida, show President Obama leading Governor Romney - in Ohio, by five percent :  50%; to 45%;  in Virginia by two percent, 49%; to 47%; and in Florida by one percent, 48%; to 47%;.  This Poll was taken October 23-28, before the onset of Hurricane Sandy............Fr.  Troy