No electoral/WS connection

[nitrah55]

I recall years ago hearing that if a team from a given league won the world series, then it was always the case that a given party won the presidential election.

Well, t'aint so.

Including 1908, there have been 25 presidential elections.
In those years, the AL team has won 16 times, the NL has won 9 times.
When the American League team wins the WS, the Republican presidential candidate has won 10 times.
When the National League team wins the WS, the Democrat presidential candiate has won 5 times.

That's the prevailing, but hardly a definitive, predictor.

My advice to McCain- flip Pennsylvania and root for the Rays. But neither may work.

[ToLiveIsToFly]

I recall years ago hearing that if a team from a given league won the world series, then it was always the case that a given party won the presidential election.

Well, t'aint so.

Including 1908, there have been 25 presidential elections.
In those years, the AL team has won 16 times, the NL has won 9 times.
When the American League team wins the WS, the Republican presidential candidate has won 10 times.
When the National League team wins the WS, the Democrat presidential candiate has won 5 times.

That's the prevailing, but hardly a definitive, predictor.

My advice to McCain- flip Pennsylvania and root for the Rays. But neither may work.

I had heard it was all about the MNF game the night before the election - if the home team won, one party won, if the visiting team won, the other party (or maybe it was about the incumbent party vs the opposition party), but that it didn't work in '04. The MNF wikipedia page says that it's all about the Racial Slurs' last home game before the election. If that's the case, I'm rooting for the Steelers even more than I usually would next weekend.