Fair Weather Voters?

[Stevicus]

Midterm Elections 2018: Will Weather Decide Them? | The Weather Channel

Interesting article on the Weather website.

At a Glance

• History and studies have shown that weather can make a difference in voter turnout and outcomes.
• Periods of rain throughout voting hours are expected in two states with the most-watched races.
• Several studies have found that Republican candidates get a boost from bad weather.

It's 56° and clear here. High expected to be 85°.

 

[BSM1]

Midterm Elections 2018: Will Weather Decide Them? | The Weather Channel

Interesting article on the Weather website.

It's 56° and clear here. High expected to be 85°.

I'm guessing you're not in Minnesota...

 

[Revoltingest]

I always use absentee voting.
This makes it easier to vex the left.
(I'd vex the right too, if I could. But
they don't appear to care how I vote.)

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

I don't think I've missed an election since reaching the age of 18.

One issue I do run into, though, is that for many offices, especially local offices, there is only one candidate on the ballot: the other party is unwilling or unable to find anyone to run to offer an alternative to what is usually the incumbent, or just the candidate of the dominant political party.

Of the 15 positions being voted on today in my precinct, six have only one candidate. For State Senate, County Clerk, County Treasurer, Regional Superintendent of Schools, my County Board district, and two positions for Judge on the Appellate Court, the dominant political party candidate has no opponent, and for those positions, my ballot is therefore meaningless.

I do have the right to write-in a name for those positions, but for such a write-in vote to count, the candidate written in has to have registered as a write-in candidate...

 

[YmirGF]

I will merrily crawl over fields of broken glass to make my crude tick marks

 

[BSM1]

I will merrily crawl over fields of broken glass to make my crude tick marks

Dude!

 

[Revoltingest]

Dude!

I know....why not just stand up, & step over the broken glass?
Must be some kind of Canuckistanian macho kind of thing.

 

[PureX]

The weather was good here, today, so I voted. I vote at a clown school (honest!), and it rained hard on the way there. But by the time I parked it stopped so I went in and voted for the green polka-dot clowns instead of the purple and yellow striped ones. Either way, I'm sure the circus will go on, though.

 

[YmirGF]

The weather was good here, today, so I voted. I vote at a clown school (honest!), and it rained hard on the way there. But by the time I parked it stopped so I went in and voted for the green polka-dot clowns instead of the purple and yellow striped ones. Either way, I'm sure the circus will go on, though.

Oh, the symbolism, eh? How poetic!

 

[BSM1]

I know....why not just stand up, & step over the broken glass?
Must be some kind of Canuckistanian macho kind of thing.

Maybe that's why I can never understand furriners.

 

[Revoltingest]

Maybe that's why I can never understand furriners.

North or south of our borders, crawling seems favored.

 

[BSM1]

The weather was good here, today, so I voted. I vote at a clown school (honest!), and it rained hard on the way there. But by the time I parked it stopped so I went in and voted for the green polka-dot clowns instead of the purple and yellow striped ones. Either way, I'm sure the circus will go on, though.

Speaking of clowns... A few years back I had an uncle pass who was a Shriner Clown that marched during parades. When he died his pallbearers were his clown buddies in full regatta. My uncle was also a WWII Navy veteran with 21 years of service, so he received full military honors at the grave site. But evidently on one told the Navy Lt. Commander and the honor guard about the pallbearers. The looks on their faces when the funeral vehicle pulled up and those clowns came piling out was--as they say--priceless. I wish I had thought to take a picture of the clowns and sailors standing at attention shoulder to shoulder as they played TAPS. Didn't mean to derail the thread, your post just brought that back to mind.

 

[BSM1]

North or south of our borders, crawling seems favored.

Maybe we're missing something.

 

[Revoltingest]

Maybe we're missing something.

Dust & broken glass?

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I vote absentee so the weather doesn't matter. I've never voted in person.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Midterm Elections 2018: Will Weather Decide Them? | The Weather Channel

Interesting article on the Weather website.


It's 56° and clear here. High expected to be 85°.

My high school psychology teacher passed an article that discussed the same things. Interesting that the weather acts as a deterrent to many.