No employment data, no economic projections, nor the Machiavellian strategy of the most aggressive press officer. They could be the ones to shake the balance in the US presidential elections a movie and a hurricane. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are chasing the last few votes to win the next four years in the White House. After 18 months of electoral campaign, tomorrow is finally the big day, "the election day", but at the moment the situation remains more than ever in the balance. Polls speak of a slight advantage in favor of the incumbent President, even if the margin is still too small to say anything.
In this situation of uncertainty, the decisive push towards the reconfirmation of the democratic leader could come from “Code Name: Geronimo”, a film about the death of Osama Bin Laden. The European preview will be in Italy on November 8, but a re-edited version has already been broadcast in the US which underlines how President Obama directed the operations.
“We all know what the ultimate outcome of the President's decision to approve the mission was,” said director John Stockwell. A year and a half after the operation that avenged the 11/XNUMX attack, the action movie celebrates the strategic qualities of the President, bringing back to the memory of all Americans the exaltation of that victory. The Democrats' hope is that Hollywood rhetoric will garner the decisive handful of votes.
Instead, the devastation produced by Hurricane Sandy plays against Obama. At first, it appeared that the natural disaster had favored the president, as about 80 percent of Americans appreciated the administration's handling of the emergency. But now that we have to deal with the rubble, material problems arise.
The mayor of New York, Michael Blomberg, assured that "everything possible will be done" to ensure the smooth running of the elections, but admitted that "there are difficulties". Work is underway to make all polling stations usable or to find alternative solutions, but success is not guaranteed. And those areas are traditionally an important constituency for Barack Obama's party.
