Episode 17: Can Weather Rig the Election?

Hype of the Week: 
Weather and its impact on elections

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Peer-reviewed journals on how weather affects voter turnout

• The Republicans Should Pray for Rain - Gomez, Hansford, and Krause, 2007
• Does Election Day weather affect voter turnout? Evidence from Swedish elections - Mikael Persson et al., 2015
• The rain in Spain: Turnout and partisan voting in Spanish elections - Joaquín Artés

Other articles from the podcast

• Long lines at early voting locations in Metro Atlanta - ABC News
• How the temperature of the room could affect voter attitudes for climate change
• Bad Weather = Less Voting, The Weather Channel
• The weather does not affect voter turnout, but only if voting is convenient for the public

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Songs of the Week:

Minh: Rockabye - Clean Bandit feat. Sean Paul and Anne-Marie

Castle: Write on Me - Fifth Harmony

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