{"id":1224,"date":"2014-11-03T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:18:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:18:47","slug":"weather-affects-more-than-agriculture-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/11\/weather-affects-more-than-agriculture-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather affects more than agriculture&#8211;VOTE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article yesterday in <em>The Wee<\/em>k shows that bad weather is good for incumbents on Election Day.\u00a0 This may be due to the strong desire of invested citizens to participate in governmental choice compared to what you might call &#8220;fair weather&#8221; voters who are more likely to be discouraged from voting if the weather is uncomfortable. You can read the story by clicking<a title=\"Bad weather good for incumbents\" href=\"https:\/\/m.theweek.com\/article\/index\/270784\/why-incumbents-should-hope-for-bad-weather-on-election-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The forecast for tomorrow shows most of the Southeast in dry and cool conditions, which could add a bit to the counts for non-incumbents.\u00a0 However, the impact of weather on elections has probably been reduced in recent years by the increase in early voting, which dilutes the impact of a single-day weather event.<\/p>\n<p>Since most of the next week should be relatively dry except for a frontal passage mid-week, producers will have plenty of time to get field work done in good conditions.\u00a0 Take a few minutes off of work and vote for the candidate of your choice.\u00a0 Make your voice count!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/rainfall-voting-day-2014.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1225\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/rainfall-voting-day-2014-300x224.gif\" alt=\"rainfall voting day 2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/rainfall-voting-day-2014-300x224.gif 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/rainfall-voting-day-2014-184x138.gif 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article yesterday in The Week shows that bad weather is good for incumbents on Election Day.\u00a0 This may be due to the strong desire of invested citizens to participate in governmental choice compared to what you might call &#8220;fair weather&#8221; voters who are more likely to be discouraged from voting if the weather is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-outlooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22933,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/22933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}