If the Redskins Beat Carolina on November 4th Obama Wins the Election

Now this is one strange statistic.

And that's how we got the Redskins Rule, a prediction that has a tradition of accuracy even better than Scholastic's survey. It goes like this:

If the Washington Redskins win their last home game before the election, the incumbent party retains the White House. Otherwise, the out-of-power party wins.

This pattern has failed only once since 1940. The year the rule missed was 2000—and many devoted Democrats think Al Gore really won that election. (Perhaps the Redskins should have tied that year.)

So their last home game before the election is against Cam Newton and the Panthers. Judging from how they got spanked by the Giants Obama should probably win the election. Get ready for 4 more years of economic malaise and class warfare.