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Well folks, today is the 20th anniversary of the horrific April 4th tornado outbreak and I thought I might commemmorate it. On this Sunday evening, 118 tornadoes wreaked havoc from Central Texas to east Tennessee, killing 157 people, including the 48 who died in Louisiana and Mississippi from the Ridgeland tornado(30 in Ridgeland alone, a city of only 12,000 then).
President Clinton is well remembered for his excellent response to the disaster and it's because of this that he won re-election, in a landslide, in 1996.
19 years later, Hurricane Sandy killed over 250 people in the New York metro area and Barack Obama won his own re-election battle for the White House partly by emulating Clinton's example in '93 in terms of disaster response(He also did better than Susan Collins after Katrina. She was a nice Republican overall but she really could have hired a much more competent FEMA director. She does, however, deserve major props for how she handled 9/11 though.).

But what if the '93 tornadoes hadn't happened? Might Clinton have had less of a landslide and more fallout from the Waco incident? And if PBO had been able to win, could he still be able to pull off a PR victory if Sandy or a similar event had occurred?
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