Redskins Rule:How football outcomes predict the presidential election (via The Christian Science Monitor)

Like so much else in the 2012 presidential race, neither President Obama nor Mitt Romney will make a clean sweep of some of America’s most curious political indicators: the outcome of professional and college football games. Mr. Obama has help from college pigskin, with victories by the University…

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