How the sports nation voted
In the homes of America's professional sports champions, the winning knack carried over to the presidential election yesterday, almost all of those states going for Barack Obama.
Giving their electoral-college votes to Obama were:
- Pennsylvania (Philadelphia Phillies)
- Massachusetts (Boston Celtics)
- New York (New York Giants, lacrosse's Rochester Rattlers)
- Michigan (Detroit Red Wings, WNBA's Detroit Shock)
Giving its votes to John McCain was:
- Texas (MLS's Houston Dynamo)
Ironic, because I'm guessing the overlap between McCain voters and MLS fans is pretty slim.
McCain fared better in the homes of champions in the major college sports.
For McCain:
- Kansas (Kansas men's basketball)
- Tennessee (Tennessee women's basketball)
- Louisiana (LSU football)
For Obama:
- California (Fresno State baseball)
But if the only states to vote Tuesday had been the ones with top-25 college football teams right now, Obama would have prevailed with 181 electoral votes to McCain's 94 (assuming North Carolina winds up for Obama and Missouri winds up for McCain).
Don't know what any of it means, but amid all the post-election statistical analysis, I'd hate for sports fans to feel left out.
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Kevin Modesti watches sports from a new angle since his promotion from sports columnist to sports editor for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group. In his new blog, Modesti not only comments on the big sports stories of the moment-- he talks about what makes them big. Think of it as a conversation with readers about how these stories should be covered.
I was over at the Valley Grassroots for Democracy headquarters in Van Nuys last night, watching the numbers come in.
The thought that popped into my head was that Obama was pulling a Secretariat, while McCain was trying to pull a Silky Sullivan.
Didn't work.
Remember back in the primary season, when people thought the Obama-Clinton duel would leave the winner too weak to fight off the Republican nominee? I even wrote a column about how this was a tactical scenario familiar to horse-racing fans. Obviously, sometimes a speed horse fights off an early challenge and goes on to victory. That's a sign of real strength and class, though Republican horseplayers might disagree.