Running for Your Life: Super Tuesday and the Super Bowl

There have been – since the summer – a gazillion polls and a million debates in the run-up to the American presidential election.

In what stands in for democracy in this great country, tomorrow (March 1), is Super Tuesday. After this ill-advised monster day of primaries and caucuses, reasonable people paid big money to have serious opinions have suggested that front-runners Donald Trump, on the Republican side (sort of), and Hillary Clinton, on the Democratic side, will be in the catbird seats. They will, according to odds makers, represent their respective parties in the November general election.

I’ve a thought. Come Wednesday morning, let’s conduct a poll. In my mind, having watched most of the debates on both sides, Republican supporters value blood sports – brute strength and heavy hitting – while the Dems are big on finesse and clever maneuvers.

Or, said another way, the GOP go for sports in which players are more at risk of career-ending concussions, while those who are far less likely to suffer such a dark turn in their lives favor the Democrats.

With that reasoning, I would posit that a preponderance of respondents of our poll whose favorite sport is either football or hockey would back Trump in an election, while a similar majority whose favorite sport is baseball, soccer or basketball would back Hillary Clinton.

Woof. Does that sound like a dead heat? Time will tell …


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