Redskin Rule??? Can Obama Break The Curse??

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

The game is over, and the "Redskins Rule" favors Mitt Romney.

Since the NFL's Redskins moved to Washington in 1937, the rule has held true: When the team won their pre-election home game, the candidate from the party that won the previous election's popular vote won the White House. When the Redskins lost, the candidate from that party lost.

It was true for Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940, when the Redskins beat the Steelers 37-10; it was true for then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2008, when the Redskins lost to the Steelers by 23 to 6; and it was true for every election in between. It was even true in 2004, when George W. Bush secured re-election after the Redskins lost to the Packers -- because Al Gore had won the popular vote in 2000.


In today's game, the Redskins lost 21-13 against the Carolina Panthers. If the Redskins Rule holds true, Mitt Romney will win the election on Tuesday. This year also marks the seventh time Election Day has fallen on Nov. 6, for which the GOP record is an undefeated 6 and 0.

Will the curse be shattered? Or has the Redskins ruled Obama's fate?

 

[Mowgli]

Superstitious trash. If he loses its because of voter fraud.

 

[bmoxover]

Wasn't there a college game last week that's accurately predicted the outcome of every election since like 1950? Obama won that game. So...

 

[Brown_Pride]

What's sad is i was putting more stock into this than in the polls.

 

[Ninjaz In Paris]

LMAO... so why even campaign? Just let the Redskins game decide the Election every 4 years...

 

[Huellz Santana]

someone also said that the Cowboys have beat every undefeated team past 5-0 that they've ever played or some shyt.

we all see how that turned out last night.... ​

 

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

Wasn't there a college game last week that's accurately predicted the outcome of every election since like 1950? Obama won that game. So...

There was also the Giants beating Detroit in the World Series which pointed good signs for Obama as well.

 

[Brown_Pride]

My great uncles arthritic knee has correctly predicted every election since the tightly contested race of 1920 which saw Harding elected. It then predicted Calvin Coolidge would hold the presidency he fell into after Harding's sudden death in the subsequent election of 1924.

My great uncle's knee said Obama has it so we're straight.

 

[Box Cutta]

Only white men have ever been re-elected! DOOM AND GLOOM!

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[Brown_Pride]

Only white men have ever been re-elected! DOOM AND GLOOM!

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... he's right.
Romney has a 100% chance to win using this metric. Ol Romney had this on lock since jump.

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

Don't ever sleep on Barry O

 

[Mr. Negative]

Only white men have ever been re-elected! DOOM AND GLOOM!

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:maadkendrick:

 

[Grams]

But when a National League squad wins the World Series the Democrat wins

 

[Ninjaz In Paris]

:maadkendrick:

Terrible Smiley...

 

[Mr. Negative]

Terrible Smiley...

I plan to use it just for occasions such as this one.