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Sandy Could Dent The Vote, But It's Unclear If It Hurts Obama Or Romney More | Essentials

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Sandy Could Dent The Vote, But It's Unclear If It Hurts Obama Or Romney More

Patrick Murray and The Honorable Jim Moran
Patrick Murray and The Honorable Jim Moran by cliff1066™
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With the death, destruction, flooding, power outages and transportation disruptions caused by Sandy the superstorm, it may seem crass to ask about the impact on next week's election. But here's a question: Could the trail of devastation left by the storm in a part of the nation whose states are generally colored blue in presidential races depress turnout in those states, especially among Democrats? And if enough of that happened, could President Obama still win those states (because of the Democrats' lopsided advantage in places like New York and New Jersey, adding their electoral votes to his column) but lose enough popular votes to put him behind Mitt Romney in that count nationally when all is said and done?

People:

Obama

Overall Sentiment: 0.112948

Relevance: 0.883076

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Gov. Chris Christie

Overall Sentiment: 0.514484

Relevance: 0.392986

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0.537674Christie said: "It's been very good working with the president. He and his administration have been coordinating with us. It's been wonderful."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.537674
  • Mean: 0.537674
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Sandy

Overall Sentiment: -0.309903

Relevance: 0.392778

Sen. John McCain

Overall Sentiment: -0.0471126

Relevance: 0.346244

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Nate Silver

Overall Sentiment: 0.0579991

Relevance: 0.328105

Mitt Romney

Overall Sentiment: 0.456454

Relevance: 0.309001

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Romney

Overall Sentiment: 0.226293

Relevance: 0.259917

Key:

  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

Additional Info:

StateOrCounty: New Jersey

Overall Sentiment: 0.168945

Relevance: 0.457968

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Organization: Republican party

Overall Sentiment: 0.0865725

Relevance: 0.384292

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Organization: Electoral College

Overall Sentiment: -0.0452345

Relevance: 0.33689

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