Hurricane Matthew's impact on the election.

[Tartarus Sauce]

Is nobody else wondering what impact this will have on early voting within Florida? How many other times in history has a state been ravaged by a natural disaster this close to a presidential election? I would presume it would have a rather detrimental effect on the logistics of voting operations.

[Coolface Sock #42069]

buuuuuut...it will dominates the news and fill important time ...which trump can't use to recover.

I would think anything taking media focus OFF Trump helps him by default.

He only made it this far because of the media'a crazy obsession with following him every second (for $$$$$$$$$$$$$$)

[100% pro-life no matter what]

All that FOX News will talk about is that Hillary apparently bought a bunch of ads to air on the Weather Channel during the storm, but then canceled them when she got caught using a hurricane for her campaign.

[Gass3268]

Rick Scott has rejected calls to extend the voter registration deadline, South Carolina has extended the deadline.

[Podgy the Bear]

Rick Scott has rejected calls to extend the voter registration deadline, South Carolina has extended the deadline.

Now that the eye of the hurricane is moving toward the Republican-trending, northern Florida coast (rather than the originally expected Ft. Lauderdale area), let's see what Scott will do.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

buuuuuut...it will dominates the news and fill important time ...which trump can't use to recover.

I would think anything taking media focus OFF Trump helps him by default.

It's already helping by keeping his disaster of a Nevada trip off the front pages. And it will likely do the same to his next debate wreck.

[Pragmatic Conservative]

It probably wont help anyone as it simply is too far from election day to make a large impact on how people would vote. If it were to help someone it would be Hillary Clinton.

[Eraserhead]

It'll probably keep us from getting any reliable polling out of Florida for a week or so.

[heatcharger]

Update: Gov. Rick Scott says "everybody's had a lot of time to register", won't be extending voter registration deadlines.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Rick Scott has rejected calls to extend the voter registration deadline, South Carolina has extended the deadline.

Yes and no.
In person registration was not extended at all. Online registration was extended one day and mail registration was extended one business day.

More significant is that Nikki Haley in her 6pm news conference pulled a Christie and was complimentary of both Obama and FEMA.

[Kingpoleon]

My concern is that Trump will grandstand by sending a supply truck to the affected area to fawning press coverage like he did with the Louisiana floods.

position HRC standing next to obama in the "let's do this" press picture and i think this will be an easy win.

Two perfectly plausible scenarios, and that's why I didn't vote in this poll. I honestly couldn't take a guess yet.

[ursulahx]

"Neither" should be an option in the poll.

[JA]

All that FOX News will talk about is that Hillary apparently bought a bunch of ads to air on the Weather Channel during the storm, but then canceled them when she got caught using a hurricane for her campaign.

I live in the Jacksonville metro, in St. Johns County, and I've been watching the local news for the past few days and the only ads I've seen are from the Trump campaign and groups supporting him.

[Mallow]

Looks like it's going to generally stay JUST far enough off shore, and Matthew should be JUST weak enough, that the effects in Florida won't be widespread devastation. Some significant flooding and surge could still cause pretty major impacts (significant monetary impact, probably a few deaths unfortunately), but wind damage will probably not be too extreme.

[Gass3268]

Sounding more likely like it might come ashore in Charleston, SC.