Charlie Crist's Election Day Turnout: Soggy with Showers?

It's dark, dreary and windy in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade Tuesday and those counties have already been wet with rain.

Former Gov. Charlie Crist's hopes to return to Tallahassee pin on the chances that those blue county voters will turn out to the polls for him, especially given the deficit he's already seeing in Democrat vs. GOP voter participation.

Will the storm clouds and their chance of rain keep voters home in those all-important counties where Crist has spent the most time and money?

Around 3 million voters had already turned up to the polls even before Election Day, with the GOP leading in absentee and early voting by 3.3 percent. But Crist will need to rely heavily on Democrat voters turning out at a higher rate than Republicans. Judging on previous elections, that scenario isn't too likely as GOP turnout tends to always be higher than Dems.

Polls close at 7 p.m.