The media loves to speculate about this sort of thing, but....no, the election will not be postponed.

If the storm had hit anywhere but New York, the question would never even be asked.

Whoops....media love, not loves.

If this came to pass, there would be riots in the streets! I'm sure that Our Dear Reader has already thought about writing an Executive Order to do so...

More of Obama's 29 reasons to smoke Newports:
The election is Tuesday and that's not going to change.

Josh needs to do his homework. Congrss cannot convene and simply vote to change the date of the election. The Founders were smarter than that. It would take a Constitutional amendment.

It did not change for the Civil War, so, the question is both stupid and farcical.

This could be the excuse Obama's needs to challenge election results.
He could say minorities were disenfranchised as the result of the storm.
At a minimum Obama could spark massive riots.

"But state and federal laws don't always jive perfectly.

Oh, they jive all right, Josh. What they don't do is jibe perfectly, which is the word you were looking for. But words and literacy don't matter, right? Not when you a joornoliss.

I think most smallish towns (flyover country, Republican) have plenty of generators to power polling locations. I also think that most Dem strongholds never invest money in such infrastructure, instead handing that money out to buy votes, going on decades now.

That is the fear of the left.

I know most of the people who live and work and breathe the Northeastern/New Englnad part of this country probably know this, but there's a whole lotta country in these United States than than New York. We're called 'flyover country', and this storm affected us directly not one bit.

If this election is delayed - even IF - it wouldn't help Barcky now. His downward spiral is already reaching - uh - hurricane force, and it would only get worse for him.

Of course, I have no confidence that anyone on Team Zero is able to RECOGNIZE that an EO or declaration of martial law now would be the ultimate in self-destruction on their part.

Not to mention that the rest of the country would not stand for it.

The answer is NO. Nice try..

That Josh answers questions without knowing the facts is typical of Old Media. When they don't know the law, they fudge it .... hoping to sound intelligent.

In a word: No.

Perhaps young Josh ought to read the Constitution with regard to elections.

We managed to hold elections with no electricity for two centuries. I'm sure we can handle this one as well...

Imagine. "Due to the great difficulties and hardships already endured by the victims of The Great Storm, Mr. Romney magnanimously concedes the electoral votes from New Jersey and New York to Mr. Obama." ... what would the media do with that???

Strictly defined, there is no such thing as a federal election. There are state elections where electors are chosen to vote (on Dec. 15 this year) for the only two federal officers, president and vice-president. There is no requirement in the Constitution that electors be chosen by popular vote. State legislatures may convene to choose electors, and most of the swing states have Republican legislative majorities and Republican governors. I don't think Barky and his acolytes will take that road.

Lederman's a typical prog jourNOlist - scratching and clawing for any chance to change the inevitable outcome of this election.
Sorry, Josh, Obama's gonna lose.

Nice try, but no, we're not postponing this election. I hereby declare November 7, 2012 as National Gloat Day.

Josh Liederhosen is doing his best in his wishing and hoping that Congress has that power because Barky can merely state the obvious to his followers- " The country just can't WAIT for Congress to act, any longer".

Quick! Somebody send Josh Lederman a memo about states controlling the election process in each state. He may have passed spelling in journo school, but he flunked basis civics.

You oldtimers remember Civics, right?

Do you think if Texas, was the only state affected there would be any such talk? How about Georgia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas?

Just because Noo Yawk, Snookieburg, and The Housewives of Philly got pounded by God's wrath doesn't mean the rest of us have to suspend the Constitution so that they can get in their uninformed, self-undermining stupid votes. And why are their votes more important than those of our GIs?

NO, it's the Libs turn to tough it out and vote underwater!

It may not cause the election to be postponed but it surely sets the stage for massive voter fraud.

If liberals want to postpone the election, I say use some negotiation skills and leverage the Libya hearings scheduled on the 15th. Agree to have the election postponed until right after the hearings. See how that works for liberals sliding and slipping along on their way down this intellectually dishonest, unsavory, unethical and uncivil slippery slope. The problem Obama & liberals will find using Lies, Double Standards and Hypocrisy as a big part of their DNC Party Platform, is that there is real probability of getting caught up in the down side of a Catch-22 like this one. Lets call this rock and a hard place another of those "teachable moments." The truth would have set them free. ROFLAO