This is one indicator, the other is Halloween Masks, but that is messed up this year, Obama is winning, McCain/Palin combined are beating Obama.
The other ones are:
1. The winner of the Redskins game the weekend before the election, or the Monday Night.
2. A poll of third graders
I thought the Redskins trend was broken in 2004.
It's like the 7 Dwarves, everyone would rather dress as Dopey than Grumpy. OTOH, you'd much rather have Grumpy running things than Dopey.