Uh-oh, an AL team won the World Series in an election year

[shawn703]

Supposedly that means the Republican stays in power.

However, the Lakers lost this year, and the Redskins should lose to the Packers on Sunday. That should help the predictors favor Kerry.

[Sydnie]

1. But BOSTON won -- all previous history is over!!! n/t

[7th_Sephiroth]

2. yes but its an AL team from the Dem candidates home state

that means the dem candidate will win

[burrowowl]

3. Kerry is for the Red Soxs

He is Senator from MA.

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

4. what r u talking about???

'92 blue jays(al) Clinton
'88 dodgers(nl) bush
'80 phils(nl) reagan


edit: I think yanks won in '96 (al)...clinton
have to look that one up

[TahitiNut]

5. Yeah ... I thought it was the opposite.

AL = Democrats
NL = Republicans


On edit ...

1932 - Yankees/AL - FDR/Dem
1936 - Yankess/AL - FDR/Dem
1940 - Reds/NL - FDR/Dem
1944 - Cardinals/NL - FDR/Dem
1948 - Cleveland/AL - Truman/Dem
1952 - Yankess/AL - Eisenhower/Rep
1956 - Yankess/AL - Eisenhower/Rep
1960 - Pirates/NL - Kennedy/Dem
1964 - Cardinals/NL - Johnson/Dem
1968 - Tigers/AL - Nixon/Rep
1972 - Athletics/AL - Nixon/Rep
1976 - Reds/NL - Carter/Dem
1980 - Phillies/NL - Reagan/Rep
1984 - Tigers/AL - Reagan/Rep
1988 - Dodgers/NL - Bush/Rep
1992 - Blue Jays/AL - Clinton/Dem
1996 - Yankees/AL - Clinton/Dem
2000 - Yankees/AL - Gore/Dem
2004 - Red Sox/AL - Kerry/Dem

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

6. no definate pattern...this is from memory so I could be wrong on some

'84 bal(al) reagan
'76 cin(nl) Carter
'72 oak(al) nixon
'68 Det(al) nixon
'64 stl(nl) LBJ
'60 pit(nl) JFK
'56 nyy(al) Eisenhower
'52 nyy(al) eisenhower
'48 cle(al) truman
'44 stl(nl) Fdr
'40 det (al) fdr
'36 nyy(al) fdr
'32 nyy(al) fdr
'28 nyy(al) ???

thanks for letting me know that yanks are in al...rotflmao..i know alittle about baseball..LOL

[txindy]

7. Yeah, well, lunar eclipse. All predictors are null and void.

Yes, I'm making this all up. 'The Curse' has been broken. There are no predictors for that.

[undercover_brother]

8. Red Sox won. That means that Nader wins this year.

[klook]

9. Har. Best response of all. Thanks for the yucks. (n/t)

[AmericanErrorist]

10. Is it because the Democrats are the older party?

But this is the end of history.