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2012 US Presidential Election
occasional:
--- Quote from: vicious796 on November 05, 2012, 03:25:56 PM ---Bad news for President Obama - the Redskins lost to the Panthers yesterday. Only once, since 1940, has the Redskins matchup been wrong and that was in 2004 with Bush v. Kerry. Every other time, the current party holding the seat has won or lost as the Redskins have:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/President/2012/1104/Redskins-Rule-How-football-outcomes-predict-the-presidential-election
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Yeah...what does Obama's horoscope say?
zherok:
--- Quote from: vicious796 on November 05, 2012, 03:25:56 PM ---Bad news for President Obama - the Redskins lost to the Panthers yesterday. Only once, since 1940, has the Redskins matchup been wrong and that was in 2004 with Bush v. Kerry. Every other time, the current party holding the seat has won or lost as the Redskins have
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One has to wonder how great a precedent is when the only recent exception is the last time it could have occurred.
While we're on the subject though, XKCD had a nice recent comic on precedents.
Burkingam:
Since you brought up XKCD. Today's panel is also worth a mention on this thread.
vicious796:
--- Quote from: zherok on November 05, 2012, 04:32:17 PM ---
--- Quote from: vicious796 on November 05, 2012, 03:25:56 PM ---Bad news for President Obama - the Redskins lost to the Panthers yesterday. Only once, since 1940, has the Redskins matchup been wrong and that was in 2004 with Bush v. Kerry. Every other time, the current party holding the seat has won or lost as the Redskins have
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One has to wonder how great a precedent is when the only recent exception is the last time it could have occurred.
While we're on the subject though, XKCD had a nice recent comic on precedents.
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It's not the last time it could have occurred. It's by party - not by person. Of course the whole thing's coincidence (also, the Alabama vs. LSU superstition favors Obama, which turns the debate to college football vs. NFL) but it's a shit ton better than the 150 commercials I have to watch every night here in VA.
I swear to you, I sat through an entire hour television show last night and every single commercial was an election ad. Every. Single. One.
AceHigh:
On this side of the pond our news actually found the US election insanity more newsworthy than the election itself. With the amount of cash USA spends on it every 4 years, dictatorship seems like a better deal, at least for the economy.
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