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Sunday, October 31, 2004

Meaningless coincidence

The Washington Redskins have played home games before 17 presidential elections (beginning with 1936). When the ‘Skins have won, the incumbent party has stayed in the White House. When the ‘Skins have lost, the incumbent party has been beaten by the challenger.

Today the Redskins lost 28-14 to the Green Bay Packers.

Kerry’s victory Tuesday will keep this strange little statistical anomaly alive for four more years.

(By the way, the Redskins scored to tie the game late in the fourth quarter and could have kicked an extra point to go ahead. The touchdown was called back on an illegal procedure play. How’s that for an omen?)

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Filed under Politics & Elections on October 31, 2004

Wednesday

Functional Ambivalent has some fine thoughts about what should happen Wednesday.

I hope and pray that we can go back to work with the celebratory feeling we should all have after watching another democratic miracle. We have, in the most vociferous and occaisionally acrimonious way, held our political leadership accountable, tested their mettle, and made our statement. And now it’s time to feel pride and wave the flag and take a break from calling each other names. On Wednesday it’s time, once again, to become simply “Americans.”

That’s the measure of patriotism, to me: Can you lose the election and then go along with what your countrymen chose, even though you disagreed with it?

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Filed under Politics & Elections on October 31, 2004

Nevada …

became the 36th state on this date in 1864, just in time to cast two electoral votes for Abraham Lincoln.

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Filed under Historical on October 31, 2004

It’s the birthday

… of Dan Rather. His frequency is 73.

… of Jane Pauley. She’s 54.

… of David Ogden Stiers. Major Winchester is 62.

It’s also the birthday of Michael (Bonanza/Little House on the Prairie) Landon, who was born in 1936 and died in 1991, and John Candy, born in 1950. Candy died in 1994.

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Filed under Birthdays on October 31, 2004

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