Rockbridge Report Production Assistant Jacob Geiger enjoys writing about the weather. Here's his take on how it affected today's turnout at the polls:
If Rockbridge County voters don’t go to the polls today, they won’t be able to blame the weather. Skies were sunny today, though temperatures never got much higher than 50 degrees.
During last year’s national elections voters turned out in force despite miserable weather.
But the good weather is unlikely to help turnout numbers that much. Turnout in the city of Lexington was about 30 percent in 2003, when the same offices were up for election.
By contrast, turnout in 2005 and 2006 was between 50 and 55 percent in Lexington and Rockbridge County. But both of those years featured a statewide race: for governor in 2005 and senator in 2006.
Because some of the heaviest turnout happens after people get off work, we’ll have to wait until polls close before we get solid turnout numbers.
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