How Game 7 of the World Series could predict the presidential election

[LiberalLovinLug]

http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2016/11/02/world-series-game-7-chicago-cubs-cleveland-indians-election

Could the winner of Game 7 of the World Series help predict which candidate will win the presidential election? Based on history, this appears to be the case.

Ken Rudin, who hosts the podcast "Political Junkie," noticed an interesting trend: When the World Series is decided in seven games in a presidential election year, the league that wins correlates to the political party that wins the White House.

Rudin found that when the American League wins Game 7 in an election year, the Republican nominee wins the White House. When the National League wins, the Democratic nominee wins.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Yep, classic demonstration of how....

correlation gets confused with causation.

Hey, I'm pretty confident about the outcome Tuesday, but I'll take a little superstition, too.

[longship]

4. In other words, not in any respect.

GOTV, the only solution.

[Jim Lane]

5. Historical support for your comment

As was pointed out on electoral-vote.com, every time the Cubs win the World Series in an election year, the Republican candidate goes on to take the White House. The site says that this regularity has held for 108 years, but actually it's held throughout the 140 years of the existence of the Cubs franchise.

So obviously Clinton is doomed. Let's GOTV and try to salvage a few downticket races.