Weather and Elections

Hello. I usually post to other NGs but have a question that I haven't
had much luck finding an answer, so I thought I would ask you. I
haven't taken stats since Grad School, so please forgive my lack of
knowledge -- even knowledge of how to ask the question.

First, are there any decent studies I available to me (and which I
could understand) that shows what influence weather has on elections?
Does good/bad weather bias the voting in any manner?

Second, (I don't plan to do this but was wondering) who would one set
up a model to determine what the bias would be? I could easily get
voting/election information at the voting district level (say, 600
registered voters and 300 actual voters) and I could get the weather,
but the candidates and issued keep changing -- plus some 2-year terms
would have a gubernatorial race every other time.

Politicians always say there's a link between weather and voting but
who believes them?

Sorry if this is OT for you.

Pat.

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