How madcap Midwest Weather Could Sway the Presidential Election

The upcoming U.S. presidential election could be impacted by severe Midwest weather, with snow and rainstorms potentially lowering voter turnout, says Climate Crisis editor Doug McIntyre. According to AccuWeather, historical data suggests that bad weather frequently affects election outcomes — and thus economic and political reverberations, with each candidate’s contrasting strategies shaping tax policies, energy investment, infrastructure spending, defense budgets and Social Security allocations.