Dimocrats tend to be fair weather voters. Love the rainy and raw for Chicagoland.
Posted on 10/31/2014 7:47:01 PM PDT by lightman
Election Day Forecast: Rain May Factor Into Turnout in Central US
Friday, October 31, 2014 18:21 ET
By Alex Sosnowski, AccuWeather.com senior meteorologist.
While rain could deter voter turnout on Election Day in part of the Central states and the Northwest, dry weather is in store in the East and the balance of the West.
Gubernatorial elections will be held on Nov. 4, 2014, in 36 states, along with elections for many other state and local government offices.
Unsettled Swath From Texas to Western New York
Rain is forecast to fall on areas from Texas to the lower Great Lakes on Election Day. Voters in part of this area may have to wait in line in the rain.
Some of the rain can be heavy enough in this swath to cause travel delays and perhaps bring incidents of urban flooding, especially from portions of Texas to the middle part of the Mississippi Valley.
The rain could affect the major cities of Houston and Dallas to Oklahoma City, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Little Rock, Arkansas and Buffalo, New York. Rain may be close to Chicago as well.
Along with the rain, locally strong thunderstorms are possible from Texas to Missouri.
Rainy Conditions for Parts of the Northwest
While a major storm is not in the offing for the Northwest, clouds and some rain and drizzle are forecast in the coastal areas from northern California to Washington state with spotty rainfall in eastern Washington to northern Idaho and northwestern Montana.
Dry Weather in Much of East, Southwest
Aside from very spotty showers along the Atlantic coast of Florida, dry weather is in store along the East
Coast and in the Appalachians with at least partial sunshine on Election Day.
After a chilly start, temperatures will recover to near- or above-seasonable levels during the midday and afternoon hours from Atlanta to Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York City and Boston.
However, there could be lingering sporadic power outages in the Northeast, depending on how much wind and snow a storm this weekend delivers.
Most locations from the Upper Midwest to Southern California can expect at least partial sunshine.
Dry and chilly conditions are in store for Chicago, Minneapolis and Omaha, Nebraska, with spotty flurries possible near the Canada border in Minnesota and North Dakota.
A dry, seasonable day is forecast for Denver and Salt Lake City. Warm weather is projected for Phoenix, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco.
Dimocrats tend to be fair weather voters. Love the rainy and raw for Chicagoland.
Democrats don’t have cars. Sucks for them.
Bad weather can be an advantage for those who get a lot of early voters. In recent years, that would be the RATs.
I walked down to the post office in a downpour this morning. The polling place is directly across the street.
Washington State has mail-in ballots. Who cares what the weather is?
Propaganda! From a weather page. Can’t be any more in-your-face.
“Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.”
My co-workers and I were joking that we should hang outside the polling place and intimidate the Dem voters. We’d wear our suits, Rolex watches, and carry a rolled up Wall St Journal ;-)
Weather won’t matter to rat voters on Nov. 4th, everybody knows republicans vote on November 4th. democrat voters poll date is Wed. November 5th.
(pass the word)
If the coverage of the cold, rainy swath projected over southeast Michigan pans out on election day, it could provide some slight boost to Republican prospects. I would guess that 75% or so of Michigan’s hard-core dems reside in the rainy, cold area (Flint, Lansing, Detroit, Pontiac, Ann Arbor, etc.) The rest of Michigan -— the portion of the state likely to be cool but clear -— is considerably more conservative and hospitable to GOP candidates.
RAIN RAIN RAIN in Chicago. Please rain, rain heavily. Stay inside little dhimmis, stay inside.
I watched the Ice Cream Farmer debate Durbin. The moderators and Durbin mopped him up. May he never run again.
It could be raining broken glass and it wouldn’t
keep me from voting the dems OUT.
Me too.
I grew up in a household where you went to Church on Sunday and to the polls on Tuesday, and it didn’t matter what the weather or if you “felt” like it—you went. Period.
I watched a little of the debate, I couldn’t stand it.
In this climate I honestly think we may have had half a chance to win (or a least some nice false hope) if Truax had been nominated instead of Uberdouche. UGH!
I watched a bit of the Chicago Tribune debate for AG between RAT Lisa Madigan and Republican Paul Schimpf. He was kicking butt and repeatedly hammered home the fact that she looks the other way at corruption in this state.
However, the moderator at the “conservative” Trib was so biased that he openly started the debate by gushing about what a GREAT governor Lisa would make and how “unfortunate” it is that she isn’t running.
Reinforced why I gloat about the Trib’s bankruptcy. The sooner the Koch bros. buy that liberal rag and make leftist heads explode, the better.
If I were a candidate I would not agree to debate without approving the moderator and all question askers, the bias is heavy and obvious.
Zero state leg gains for the GOP? Is that accurate? What a disaster.
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