superstitions
Nov. 1st, 2004 04:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7Dave has been doing a lot of reading about the elections, and has been telling me amusing ones he's found.
Here's one I like, corroborated here, the Google News search here: Funny Old Game:
Since 1933, the outcome of the last Redskins game before an election has accurately predicted the outcome of that election.
If the Redskins win, the incumbent party wins.
If the Redskins lose, the incumbent party loses.
On Sunday the Redskins lost 28-14 to the Green Bay Packers.
Somebody on the Redskins team ran for the touchdown and they called illegal motion in the backfield. The play proceeded with a flag on it, the runners not knowing that the flag had been cast, and so they thought they'd won. (That's my best summary, not being a football person.)
Hmmmm.... Eerie?
Kerry's comment? "The Packers have done their part. This Tuesday, we'll do ours."
Another one I like: No Republican has ever won without New Hampshire. New Hampshire is a toss-up this year.
Another battleground state, Minnesota, hasn't voted Republican since Nixon. According to Artvoice, local Republican party officials have been working their hardest to get polling places in downtown Minneapolis (heaviest Democratic concentration in the state) moved without notice. Lovely.
Every President elected in a year evenly divisible by 20, since Harrison), has either been assassinated, died in office, or had an attempt made on his life.
Except George W. Bush.
The last one: Reagan.
(Dave's looking this one up.)
1840: Harrison, pneumonia
1860: Lincoln, bullet
1880: Garfield, bullet
1900: McKinley, re-elected, bullet
1920: Harding: heart attack
1940: FD Roosevelt, stroke
1960: Kennedy, bullets
1980: Reagan, bullet (non-fatal)
W? Pfeh, he's broken a lot of things, why not tradition? Maybe he's gonna have to get re-elected for the curse to come true. (Though... I think all of the above died during the term beginning with the election in the 0 year. I'm not sure about FDR, whether he'd been re-re-re-elected or not.)
Most significantly, Dave read about this weird little thing in a book published before Reagan was elected.
More:
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11250014%255E1702,00.html
They seem to go both ways. Fat lot of good that does us. ^.^
Here's one I like, corroborated here, the Google News search here: Funny Old Game:
Since 1933, the outcome of the last Redskins game before an election has accurately predicted the outcome of that election.
If the Redskins win, the incumbent party wins.
If the Redskins lose, the incumbent party loses.
On Sunday the Redskins lost 28-14 to the Green Bay Packers.
Somebody on the Redskins team ran for the touchdown and they called illegal motion in the backfield. The play proceeded with a flag on it, the runners not knowing that the flag had been cast, and so they thought they'd won. (That's my best summary, not being a football person.)
Hmmmm.... Eerie?
Kerry's comment? "The Packers have done their part. This Tuesday, we'll do ours."
Another one I like: No Republican has ever won without New Hampshire. New Hampshire is a toss-up this year.
Another battleground state, Minnesota, hasn't voted Republican since Nixon. According to Artvoice, local Republican party officials have been working their hardest to get polling places in downtown Minneapolis (heaviest Democratic concentration in the state) moved without notice. Lovely.
Every President elected in a year evenly divisible by 20, since Harrison), has either been assassinated, died in office, or had an attempt made on his life.
Except George W. Bush.
The last one: Reagan.
(Dave's looking this one up.)
1840: Harrison, pneumonia
1860: Lincoln, bullet
1880: Garfield, bullet
1900: McKinley, re-elected, bullet
1920: Harding: heart attack
1940: FD Roosevelt, stroke
1960: Kennedy, bullets
1980: Reagan, bullet (non-fatal)
W? Pfeh, he's broken a lot of things, why not tradition? Maybe he's gonna have to get re-elected for the curse to come true. (Though... I think all of the above died during the term beginning with the election in the 0 year. I'm not sure about FDR, whether he'd been re-re-re-elected or not.)
Most significantly, Dave read about this weird little thing in a book published before Reagan was elected.
More:
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11250014%255E1702,00.html
They seem to go both ways. Fat lot of good that does us. ^.^
