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A presidential campaign that’s been a blur of political attack ads and candidate travel driven by $2 billion in historic spending has been frozen in place by the fury of a storm no person or government could control.

Exactly one week before the Nov. 6 general election, with some polls showing the race a dead heat nationally, President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney have temporarily taken themselves off the campaign trail.

The candidates cancelled rallies and stump speeches, aiming to free up emergency workers and show voters they put public safety over politics, at least through Hurricane Sandy’s landfall and the worst of the storm’s impact.

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