Poll numbers reveal that Americans were quite impressed with President Obama's response to Hurricane Sandy. Take that Fox News!

In what should come as little surprise to most of you, and despite what that batshit crazy person from the dead lake said yesterday, polls indicate that President Obama is getting a lot of credit for how well he handled the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

Courtesy of TPM:  

A number of new polls have shown that the American public has positive views of President Obama's response to the damage along the eastern seaboard caused by Hurricane Sandy. 

A UPI poll released Saturday showed 77 percent of Americans had a positive take on Obama's response to the storm and an additional 65 percent thought "the destructive storm and its aftermath gave the president a chance to connect better with voters," the news service wrote. An ABC News/Washington Post national tracking poll released on Wednesday of last week also found 78 percent of likely voters had a positive view of the president's efforts. A pair of swing state polls released Saturday from NBC/Marist showed the same thing -- 70 percent of likely voters in Florida and 73 percent of likely voters in Ohio approved of the response. 

Apparently most Americans do not agree that the President simply showed up for a "photo op." They saw a President taking his job very seriously and getting things done as quickly as humanly possible.

As a matter of fact some in the Republican party have seen the writing on the wall and are already positioning themselves to credit Obama's inevitable win to the Hurricane, so as not to blame their candidate or their policies.

This from Politico:

“If you hadn’t had the storm, there would have been more of a chance for the Romney campaign to talk about the deficit, the debt, the economy. There was a stutter in the campaign," Rove told the Washington Post on Friday. "When you have attention drawn away to somewhere else, to something else, it is not to his advantage.” 

He characterized the stutter as a "subtle disadvantage" but said the storm has had a significant impact on the race. 

"It’s the October surprise. For once, the October surprise was a real surprise," he told the Post. Rove, former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to George W. Bush, said the president "has temporarily been a bipartisan figure this week. He has been the Comforter-in-Chief and that helps."

Of course that ignores the poll numbers which have been heading in Obama's favor long before the storm hit and the early voting numbers which have also been favoring the incumbent in key swing states.

But blaming the storm gives the Republicans an out to that they don't have to honestly address how out of touch they are with the American people.

Sounds good to me.  That way they will continue to be vulnerable for many elections to come.