south of where we thought, so keep your fingers crossed for your fellow americans today. >> we face these kind of challenges before and as we have, you see how americans come together. this looks like another time when we need to come together all across the country. >> hurricane sandy's arrival has up-ended the best laid plans of both campaigns with its final eight days before the election. how will the storm impact the get out the vote strategy for the battleground states? joining me chuck todd, chief white house correspondent, political director, host of "the daily run down." you saw the president there, not a candidate, the commander in chief, the president, that is a role he has to take. will there be charges from any direction that he's doing this for affect? this what is any president would have to do. >> by the way, if he wasn't doing it, there would be charges. i mean that part of it is absurd. this is, you know, are there charges when a governor calls a