With Sandy at her strongest, the presidential race has basically been put on hold. It's a strange moment. The week before an election is supposed to be hectic, but now there's an eerie calm. My Twitter feed, which has been frantic with politics for the last two weeks, is now full of talk about the weather.

Some political reporters are trying to predict what Sandy will mean for the elections. The answer is that they don't know. They don't know what the east coast will look like when all this is over. They don't know when it will be over. They don't know what Election Day will look like now. Don't listen to them. Instead, donate some money to the Red Cross and ignore those predictive posts. Nobody can say what will happen a week from now.

In many markets, the Obama campaign has released what will be one of the final ads of the presidential campaign. If they don't lose power, people who are holed up in their homes waiting out the weather will see this ad a whole bunch of times. I think it's a good one.