Progressive journalists love to insist Republicans are both stupid and rich, which would seem to be in defiance of common sense. America's smartest people can't figure out how to make money?

It doesn't matter, it is a logical fallacy created to rationalize why only 6% of academia is Republican; smart people become Democrats and if you don't believe that, you are anti-science.

So Republicans may be stupid by they are apparently not lazy; Andrew Smith, associate professor of political science and director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, says Democrats don't like to vote if the weather is bad, especially when they are the incumbent.  Eric Niiler at Discovery News had the scoop. “Registered Republicans will come out and vote regardless of the weather," Smith told him.

And Brad Gomez, associate professor of political science at Florida State University, says bad weather kept us from having a Golden Age of Al Gore starting in November, 2000.  Gomez estimates Gore would have gotten 2,000 more votes in Florida and won the state and thus the election.  

This data may be suspect (surprise) because political scientists may not know anything.   Here is a quote from Niiler's article that is a concern:
Smith said cold or snowy weather could keep more moderate, independent or Democratic voters at home. New Hampshire has an open primary, which means that anyone can vote regardless of party registration. That could also hurt a moderate GOP candidate such as Jon Huntsman.
Niiler is a journalist so he can be forgiven for drinking progressive Kool-Aid propaganda and regurgitating it, like that because Huntsman does not deny evolution he must be a 'moderate' - if Smith the political scientist said it, his students should be worried because in reality Huntsman is the most conservative candidate in the race.

Foul Weather Can Turn an Election by Eric Niiler, Discovery News