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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Thursday, November 1st. I'm Dorothy Wickenden,

executive editor at The New Yorker. At a Mitt Romney rally less than two weeks ago, New Jersey

Governor Chris Christie had some unkind things to say about President Obama. He's like a man

wandering around the dark room, hand up against the wall, clutching for the light switch of leadership.

And he just can't find it and he won't find it in the next 18 days.

But on Tuesday, after the hurricane, Christie was boasting on national television about his

late-night phone call from the president and praising his outstanding job on federal disaster

relief to the state.

On Wednesday, he and Obama toured the

devastation in coastal New Jersey by air, and he said at a press conference afterward,

I think this is our sixth conversation since the weekend, and it's been a great working

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