Chart of the Week: Two Maps to Win

US Person suggests there are two maps the Obamarama has to pay attention to in the last week before Election Day. One of these the last Occupant ignored and it cost him re-election:

[credit: AP]

The map above is fairly obvious. Obama must hang on to Ohio while a win in fence-sitting Colorado would help him breath easier. The bottom map is also self-explanatory, but as the Charlatan found out, it's political implications are no less important:

US Person does not think it an exaggeration to posit the outcome of this presidential election depends in great part on the size, speed, and efficiency of the federal government's disaster response to a storm rivaling in destructive scope the great 1938 hurricane. Sandy came ashore near Atlantic City, N.J. on Monday evening bringing a tremendous storm surge with it. The President has already declared New York and Massachusetts eligible for federal disaster aid. Hurricane Katrina was a huge natural disaster exacerbated by a federal administration that prided itself on allowing poor people to fend for themselves. The "horror dome" and New Orleans police anarchy were the result of his totally inadequate social philosophy. Does the Currant Occupant need to be reminded that if his administration does another "hell of a job" in the aftermath of this frankenstorm, he will be looking for new digs in Chicago come the New Year? Sandy is an "October surprise" of another kind.