Damn now you made me look it up.
For the baseball predictor it has nothing to do with City.
From 1952 to 1976 if the American League (AL) won the world series the Republicans would win the presidency. If the National League (NL) won the series the Democrats won the Presidency. (100%). Since 1976 it's been split evenly). But since 1920 this predictor has been right about 71 1/2 % of the time. If I could predict anything that well I'd be rich. The Red Sox are an AL team by the way.
I was wrong about the Superbowl it was actually a single team, the Washington Redskins, from 1940 to 2000 if the Redskins won their last home game the incumbent party kept the White House, if they lost the incumbent party lost. This was 100%. Prior to the 1940 the Redskins weren't in Washington and they weren't the Redskins. In 2004 the Redskins lost the crucial game. (Oh well another swell theory down the drain).
Mishka wrote:
i believe both were boston (red sox and patriots -- man, i have been living in this country far too long! ), no clash
best, mishka
On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 19:42:11 -0500, Peter J. Alling
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Superbowl and World Series were pretty good predictors of the US Presidency, this year they clashed, I can't remember which won.
Doug Franklin wrote:
Hi Jostein,
On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:31:59 +0100, Jostein wrote:
Hm... In sync with the years of minimum solar activity in the sunspot cycles...:-)
How's that for economic theory?
Well, it's really more of a hypothesized predictor. As one, it's no worse than the "which conference won the Super Bowl" predictor, which IIRC was remarkably accurate for about 30 years, and may still be, for all I know. Or maybe the Super Bowl one was for US Presidential elections rather than the economy.
TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
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