By Elmer Beauregard
While researching the big election on Tuesday in Massachusetts between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown, I came across this article. There is a snow storm heading for Massachusetts and the article said that "Republicans generally benefit from bad weather". I began to wonder why that is.
The article floated this theory:

Thomas Hansford, a political scientist at University of California, Merced, one of the authors of the study, which he said could also apply to state elections, said he and his colleagues theorized that bad weather can discourage peripheral, or occasional, voters. Those voters, according to Hansford, tend to be lower-income people and tend to vote for Democrats.

I however think that is not it. I think the reason Republicans benefit from bad weather on election day is THEY DRIVE SUVs!

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