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Opening Arguments

Praying for rain

Now we know there might be some truth to what people have suspected for years about the weather and elections:

A new study of voter behavior confirms something political operatives have long suspected: rain hurts Democrats and helps Republicans. The study found that 1 inch of rain reduces overall turnout by slightly less than 1 percent and cuts the Democratic vote by 2.5 percentage points.

Suppose Steve Shine is looking out his window right now and thinking, "There IS a God, and he's Republican"?

On the other hand:

They determined that a few storms in the right locations could have changed the outcome of the 1960 presidential election. If there had been storms in the Northeast and the Midwest, Richard Nixon would have won instead of John Kennedy.

So I guess God is bipartisan.

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