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Thank you. more at Hyundaiamerica.us. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for November 2nd, 2012.

The Chris Christie is my co-pilot edition.

I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate here in Slate's D.C. headquarters.

Off the road, snuggling close with me here is Slate's chief political correspondent John Dickerson. Hello, John. Hello, David. And from our one woman,

New Haven Bureau, Emily Bazelon, Slate, senior editor, hello, Emily. Hello. Did you have power,

Emily? Yes, except for my son's school.

But you have had power all through. You're fine.

We have been very lucky. I have nothing to complain about.

Oh, I'm sure we'll find something.

So this is our last Gab Fest before Election Day on Tuesday, and it is a very uncertain moment.

Superstorm Sandy. What do we call her? Do we call it Superstorm Sandy? Hurricane Sandy is fine. Superstorm sounds like you've bought into the narrative being put forward by CNN. I use that word advisedly. Sandy has killed scores of people in the Northeast, caused billions of dollars worth of damage,

particularly in New York and New Jersey, left millions of Americans without power, and

ignited debates about the federal role in disaster relief and also about climate change,

a subject that has not been talked about much during this campaign season.

And, of course, it also disrupted the presidential campaign as both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama jumped off the campaign trail this week, Barack Obama

to deal with Sandy and to supervise federal disaster relief efforts. And Mitt Romney, because

it just would have been unseemly, I guess, that's why he will talk a little bit more about

that. So on today's show,

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