Posted on 10/26/2010 10:38:22 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
In more bad news for Democrats, rain is in the forecast for much of the country on Election Day.
Weather tracking websites, including weather.com and The Old Farmer's Almanac, are calling for rain in the Midwest, Southeast and Northeast regions, with chances for precipitation in other parts of the country as well.
According to Laurel Harbridge, a Northwestern University political science professor, GOP voters are not typically discouraged by rain. “Republicans are helped by bad weather ... it does harm Democratic prospects.”
Wendy Schiller, a political science professor at Brown University, echoed Harbridge. “Bad weather almost always hurts Democrats,” she said. “The traditional Democratic base tends to include lower-income people and the elderly. Both of those demographic groups have a hard time getting to the polls.”
Political experts say the rain will especially help Republicans this year because the conservative base is motivated to win back control of Congress.
“It will require an even bigger get-out-to-vote effort by the Democrats if the weather is bad,” said Schiller.
Robert Shapiro, former chairman of the department of political science at Columbia University, said, “Look for places where the election could be close and where the weather might discourage less-than-enthusiastic-voters.”
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I guess Obama better raise his arms and change it, eh?
What, the weather not doing what the Mahdi tells it to do?
I’ll be singing in the rain.
Even in a good year, rain depresses ‘Rat turnout. Too stupid to come in from the rain if they’re already outside, but too lazy to go out if they’re already inside.
There’s gonna be tsunami, anyway............
I hope it snows.
Had a tornado go through this morning and ripped off part of the factory roof. Lots of other damage.
Isn’t it “bad news” to begin with if your voters won’t bother if it rains, whereas conservative voters take their civic dutty much more seriously?
This is just grammas opinion but I’ve always wondered if the depressed rat turnout in bad weather is due to the fact that driving gets somewhat difficult? You know, they can’t drive around voting in precinct after precinct and conducting all their various vote fraud antics as easily when the roads are more slippery.
But I definitely concur with the poster that I’d paddle through swollen streams, shoot swim through swollen streams to get to the polls this year! Put on a wet suit, goggles and fins if I have to!! (Might even need a spear gun if the black panthers are out and about).
there is no question that rain slows down fraud. harder to drive from place to place...traffic is slower. I’ve also heard that voter-contractors (voters paid to vote on behalf of dead people, etc.) generally charge more if they have to vote in the rain.
DIMs don’t go out in the rain, because they’d melt.
This is going to cost the RATS, they will need to provide millions of pairs of free galoshes, umbrellas and hot steaming bowls of Campbells chicken noodle soup.
Anybody that used the OFA for anything other than entertainment or maybe toilet paper is a damfool.
Elderly is one thing, but I don’t see how a lower income person who can get to the polls on a sunny day, has a “hard time” getting to the polls on a rainy day. We’re talking about lack of an umbrella or newspaper to hold over your head?
I mean come on, I’ll give an elderly person a pass but not a poor person who otherwise could get there. I don’t think getting wet respects income classes.
Don't RATS melt in the rain?
Fortunately, the Holder Justice Department just announced that it is setting up special Democratic polling stations for Wednesday, November 3 throughout the northeast.
So your Democrat friends don’t need to vote on the 2nd. They can wait till the 3rd.
Spread the word!
DemoRATS don’t like the rain because god sends it.
The ONLY water that is acceptable to a DemoRAT is that which
is gifted to you by the government.
I’ll wear f(**( scuba gear if I have to!
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