{"id":6525,"date":"2012-10-28T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6525"},"modified":"2012-10-28T03:14:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T07:14:54","slug":"will-football-decide-the-american-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/will-football-decide-the-american-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Football Decide The American Presidency?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/102712_0208_WillFootbal1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"690\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It turns out that rather than political pundits, ESPN forecasters might have the best idea of whose about to win the American Presidency in 2012:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A study has found that the result of a college football game can alter the election.<\/li>\n<li>In particular, if the home team wins a week before the election, then the incumbent can expect to see a 1.5% surge at the polls, because people are happier about how things are going in their airea.<\/li>\n<li>If the home team wins on the eve of the election the incumbent could see a 3% boost.<\/li>\n<li>Surprise victories are worth more to the incumbent than expected ones.<\/li>\n<li>This result also seems to hold true for basketball game results.<\/li>\n<li>Since the 2012 election is expected to depend upon the results in Florida, Ohio, and Virginia; a couple of football games on October 27<sup>th<\/sup> might determine the future of the United States of America.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The authors conclude by suggesting that the candidates discuss football strategy with the playing teams before the game. Read more about the study and its limits over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/politics\/2012\/10\/how_the_presidential_race_between_barack_obama_and_mitt_romney_could_be.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/politics\/2012\/10\/how_the_presidential_race_between_barack_obama_and_mitt_romney_could_be.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that rather than political pundits, ESPN forecasters might have the best idea of whose about to win the American Presidency in 2012: A study has found that the result of a college football game can alter the election. In particular, if the home team wins a week before the election, then the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/102712_0208_WillFootbal1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6525"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6595,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6525\/revisions\/6595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}