How Jake Locker Might Save Patty Murray’s Job
All you latte-sipping liberals who couldn’t tell a screen pass from a deep slant may want to break out your purple and root hard for the University of Washington football team on Saturday.
According to a study from the National Academy of Sciences, (which I first read about in ESPN The Magazine), when a state’s college football team wins near election day, its incumbent politicians get a boost at the polls.
For some voters, if the home team wins, all is right with the world. If not, it’s “kick the bums out” time.
With the Murray/Rossi race a toss-up, seemingly inconsequential factors like a slight rise in gas prices, an layoff announcement, or, apparently, the score of Saturday’s Washington/Stanford game, could mean the difference between six more years of the Mom in Tennis Shoes or a term of Rossinomics.
ESPN rightly points out that Husky QB Jake Locker is the central figure in this drama. The Washington quarterback, who before the season was considered among the top QBs in the country, isn’t even the best QB in the state right now. Against #13 Stanford on Saturday, the Huskies can’t win without a big game from Locker. And maybe Patty Murray can’t either.
So, lefties, even if you think football is institutionalized violence, you’ll want to swallow your ethics and root big from some hard hits on Stanford QB Andrew Luck. And if any righties are reading this; well, this might be one time to go against the home team.
As for me, I don’t consider the political party of our next U.S. Senator to be anywhere near as important as whether the Huskies make a bowl game. Go Dawgs!
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This fact probably mattered alot more when we had Election Day as opposed to all mail balloting.
Locker is more popular than Patty Murray. I don’t see any connection between the two. I’d trust Jake in congress a lot more than Patty anyway.
Go Jake! I heard Murray talking about this state having a woman governor and her as a woman senator. Last election Patty Murray said “All we need is the women and a few good men.” I don’t care for that divisive “them and us” attitude. And I don’t like being thought of as a playing card in political elections.