Fears that the oil would enter the Gulf's "loop current" and follow it up the Atlantic coast did not become reality. Nonetheless, the spill's psychic taint spread far and wide. As one example, it reached North Carolina, where a political ad by a conservation group portrayed an oil-covered U.S. Sen. Richard Burr being pulled from the water and scrubbed by volunteers in yellow hazardous-waste suits. "Until he supports clean energy climate legislation," an announcer says, "I don't think we can save him." [b]Metin2 Yang[/b],[b]Metin2 Yang[/b],[b]Metin2 Yang[/b],
Many have called the spill "Obama's Katrina," and it is unclear what impact the disaster will have on his prospects for a second term. Pundits debate what will happen to oil-industry reform efforts if the spill contributes to a change of guard on Capitol Hill and in the White House.
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For those who live day to day, season to season, along the Gulf Coast, though, thoughts are not about an election cycle down the road but on the precariousness of livelihoods and a way of life down here.
