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4B Daily News – Thursday, November 1, 2012 homestretch BRIGANTINE, N.J. (AP) — President Barack Obama soberly toured the destruction wrought by superstorm Sandy on Wednesday in the company of New Jersey's Republican governor and assured vic- tims ''we will not quit'' until cleanup and recovery are complete. Six days before their hard-fought election, rival Mitt Romney muted criticism of Obama as he barnstormed battle- ground Florida. Forsaking partisan poli- tics for the third day in a row, the president heli- coptered with Gov. Chris Christie over washed-out roads, flooded homes, boardwalks bobbing in the ocean and, in Seaside Heights, a fire still burning after ruining about eight structures. Election Romney's own expressions of sympathy for storm vic- tims — a break on the sur- face from heated campaign- ing — a controversy as heated as any in the long, intense struggle for the White House flared over the Republican challenger's new television and radio ads in Ohio. ''Desperation,'' President Joe Biden said of the broadcast claims that suggested automakers Gen- eral Motors and Chrysler are adding jobs in China at the expense of workers in the bellwether state. ''One of the most flagrantly dis- honest ads I can ever remember.'' Vice Who'd end Washington Back on the ground, the president introduced one local woman to ''my guy Craig Fugate.'' In a plain- spoken demonstration of the power of the presidency, Obama instructed the man at the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a 7,500-employee federal agency, to ''make sure she gets the help she needs'' immediately. Despite the tour and WORLD BRIEFING be getting through. Almost half of likely voters, 47 per- cent, think the Republican challenger would be better at ending the logjam, com- pared with 37 percent for Obama. With the race charging praising Obama's ''out- standing'' response to the natural disaster. Halloween gridlock? WASHINGTON (AP) — Just about everybody agrees Washington is a grid- locked mess. But who's the man to fix it? After two years of brawling and brinkmanship between President Barack Obama and congressional Republi- cans, more voters trust Mitt Romney to break the stale- mate, an Associated Press- GfK poll shows. Romney's message — a vote for Obama is a vote for more gridlock — seems to into its final week, Romney is pushing that idea. He increasingly portrays him- self as a get-things-done, work-with-everybody prag- matist, in hopes of convinc- ing independent voters that he can overcome Washing- ton's bitter partisanship. The AP-GfK poll shows the race in a virtual dead heat, with Romney at 47 percent to Obama's 45 percent, a difference within the margin of sampling error. At a rally Wednesday in Coral Gables, Fla., Romney recounted how he worked with the Democratic-led Legislature as governor of Massachusetts and insisted he would find common ground with Democrats in Washington, too: ''We can't change course in America if we keep attacking each other. We've got to come together and get America on track again.'' show of bipartisanship Wednesday, touring super- storm Sandy devastation alongside Republican Gov. Chris Christie in New Jer- sey. A major Romney sup- porter, Christie has been Obama made his own Seventh-grader Samantha Bertolino was especially proud of her Halloween costume this year. She was going to be a vampire, and she really had it together this time: The black dress, the spider-web earrings, fake blood, white face paint, and some cool, sparkly clip- on nails. postponement NEW YORK (AP) — ing, the mayor said, could go ahead as long as caution and good judgment were used.) Clinton seeks shakeup of Syrian opposition But the costume will stay in the closet for a while: Samantha's town of Ridge- field, Conn., has postponed Halloween due to the rav- ages of Superstorm Sandy. The town is planning to reschedule, pending the success of cleanup efforts. But it won't be the same, Samantha says: ''It's kind of like trying to reschedule Christmas. You can't really do that.'' From the wrath of nature to the wrath of young chil- dren: From Maryland to Kentucky to Maine, Hal- loween festivities were being canceled or post- poned. And a debate emerged: Should we be cel- ebrating, anyway, in the face of the devastation? Or is celebrating just the right ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — The Obama administra- tion said Wednesday it would push for a major shakeup in Syria's opposi- tion leadership so that it bet- ter represents those dying on the front line, can rally wider support and resist attempts by extremists to hijack the revolution against the Assad regime. thing to do for antsy kids who've been cooped up at home (and out of school) for days? profile postponement was that of New York's huge parade in Greenwich Vil- lage, with its outlandish floats and millions of revel- ers, mainly adults. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the city's police were sim- ply too taxed with Sandy's aftermath. (Trick-or-treat- Perhaps the most high- Croatia's capital, U.S. Sec- retary of State Hillary Rod- ham Clinton said the administration was suggest- ing names and organiza- tions that should feature prominently in any new rebel leadership that emerges from talks starting next week in Doha, the cap- ital of Qatar. 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