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Storm’s threat puts campaigning on ice

Obama, Romney plug for Red Cross

By DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS

Posted: October 30, 2012 at 5:28 a.m.

JACQUELYN MARTIN
Credit: AP
President Barack Obama speaks Monday in the White House Briefing Room in Washington after returning from a campaign stop in Florida to monitor Hurricane Sandy.

The presidential candidates suspended all their personal campaign activities Monday as President Barack Obama raced ahead of a dangerous Atlantic storm to convene a Situation Room meeting of the nation’s emergency officials and Mitt Romney called off all the events planned for himself and his running mate Monday night and today.

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President Barack Obama said Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, that he's confident that state and federal governments have done all they can to prepare for the superstorm barreling up the East Coast.
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