[VOA]

“
That streak was broken in ‘04. The Redskins lost but Bush won re-election.
But then, you’ve probably read that already - been posted a lot here -
and ignored it?
“

Blame the media. This is what I heard this morning.
If I heard correctly one of the CNBC reporters (Revell?) repeated
the lock-solid mantra “Redskins win their last game before the election
and the incumbent party stays in; Redskins lost last night.”
And he went on to say “that’s bad news for McCain”.

[Prole]

"The Redskins game and General Election are correlated. Hocus pocus, hocus pocus, hocus pocus!!"

http://brej.org/fun/cat_tackle.mpg

[txrangerette]

I do blame the media, but that poster had to know something about it before posting.

Because, they wrote that this had happened “15 out of 16 times”. See, they knew that wasn’t a solid streak, but chose to omit that it was only as recently as ‘04 it was invalidated.

And I’ve seen the truth posted on every thread where this downer “factoid” was posted...that it ALWAYS proved true (and then FReepers would add...”except when it didn’t”).