Red Zone just mentioned that the incumbent has lost only once when the Redskins won the Sunday before Election Day. Which election is that exception?
Per Wiki, 2004 is my answer.
I have to say, the rational part of my mind realizes that there is no actual causation. The irrational part of my mind is pulling for Washington like crazy. (Plus, I started RGIII this week.)
- However, the originator of the rule has pointed out that if you go by the party that won the popular vote (as did Gore/the Dems in 2000), the rule is unbroken.
Redskins aint winning this game… but if they lose and Obama loses than there are about 10 other “predictors” that have will have their streaks broken. Everything from Chia Pets and Halloween masks, to the Scholastic Kids votes.
Either way it goes these predictions of things not related to actual polling will come to an end.
You’d be better off focusing on the Tarantino Effect. Quentin Tarantino made the movie Pulp Fiction in 1994. And no incumbent President since that movie was released has lost an election. Most scholars agree that Pulp Fiction fundamentally changed the accepted rules of both film narrative and American politics.
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The rule also says that if the Redskins lose, the incumbent party loses. The OP’s version leaves out that crucial detail, now that the Redskins have lost.
*smh. Are you saying that because Gore won the popular vote in 2000, then the Dems were technically the incumbent party in 2004, so the streak holds? Other than that, I don’t understand what you are saying.