president in the last 48 hours. you have a bunch of centrist kind of pseudo republicans, who knows where they are politically, but the cumulative effect i think is powerful. is there obama momentum right now, chuck? you score these pretty straight right down the middle. it s funny. i call it there s sort of the campaign insider s zeitgeist, if you will, and there s this assumption whether you heard haley barbour say it publicly, i talked to strategists on both sides, on the republican side worry about it privately and the democratic side hopeful for it. they think there s some sort of bounce for the president on sandy. nobody can point to any metric yet to prove this, but when you think about where things were a week ago, a week ago there was this assumption that, boy, all the intangibles here at the end were going to let me to romney. now it feels there s intangibles that may favor the president. i get the sense that the love of romney by the right and other politica
disaster relief belongs only on the state level. every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that s the right direction. who better to respond to what s going on inside its own borders than the state whose infrastructure has just been swept out to sea? as we talked about earlier, it s the romney etch-a-sketch fema edition. next, iowa congressman steve king. there s a piece of work. seems to be on a never ending campaign to outdo his own history of crazy comments. from the republican congressman who thinks president obama s birth certificate may have been telegramed to him from kenya, we have comments on federal aid for victims of sandy. here is what he said. i want to get them the resources that are necessary to lift them out of this, but not one big shot to just open up the checkbook because following
like he s squealing like a pig essentially here. he knows he lost the day, and he just wants to complain about it, this bromance, suggestions of gay behaviors. it s absurd and high school. rush is the kind of air raid siren for the republicans. when he s screaming like that, you know something has happened. if you add up all the factors, the fact the president gets to be presidential. if you add up the fact he gets to talk about bipartisanship and communal activity government being good. government being government, government being good, not to mention the fact that it also a lot of states have had to rearrange events for the campaign. it stresses who has the more nimble campaign. out in virginia where they rescheduled a big event for obama for saturday in virginia, that obama has a more nimble campaign and has been able to adapt to the situation in these
yesterday and saw the devastation, and you really get a sense of, you know, how difficult this is going to be for a lot, a lot of people. welcome back to hardball. that was president obama earlier today. voters are overwhelmingly supportive of his handling of the storm. a washington post /abc poll shows 78% give him a positive rating for his efforts these past few days. during his re-election pause, if you call it that, mr. obama reminded americans he has presidential duties and also found a couple unlikely friends along the way, one being new jersey governor chris christie and now tonight a big one, new york mayor michael bloomberg. with both sides back to regular base, what will sandy s lasting effects be, meaning through tuesday? jeff zeleny is a national political correspondent for the new york times, and howard fineman is the editorial director for the huffington
romney right now according to a suffolk university poll is losing the state where he made lots of promises but governed in a very erratic fashion. he didn t keep his promises to the people of massachusetts. the people of massachusetts at this point in time it looks like he is losing by 32 points to barack obama. that is incredible. this is a guy who ran, who made promises, and did not keep promises in office. i can t answer that question, and i think that the people of massachusetts can answer the question. this is a guy who has no core, that they won t support for president, and they wish they probably had their vote back for governor perhaps, too. by the way, a real dealmaker which is scott brown is close in the race to elizabeth warren. they think he is a dealmaker. that s the difference. thank you, gene robinson, thank you, shannon o brien. up next, democrats would love to see republican congressman he s one of the worst go down to defeat. we ll talk to the candidate who is