to talk about the deficit. the blame the storm line has continued all through today especially with former mississippi governor haley barbour speaking on the today show. hurricane sandy saved barack obama s presidency. it broke the momentum romney had coming in the end of october. this is a narrative republicans are telling themselves, that the beltway media is also now starting to tell itself because they keep hearing republicans say it. it is not a theory born from reality. this is a checkable thing, emperical idea. their theory is mitt romney was on track to win this thing if it weren t for that blasted storm. this is something we can check. easy. let s start with this. we re all in agreement that the polls were correct despite all the nonsense ahead of the election how the polls seemed so wrong before the election, now that the election has happened, it has been proven and we can