In a close race it's not trivial that every male in Wisconsin has spent

[troublemaker]

the afternoon rooting for John Kerry. (May WI females too, of course, but I'm less worried about the ladies, vote-wise) These little things add up... (I remember the Brazilian stock market rallying in the 1990s when they won the World Cup.)

It's not that any Packer-fan Bush supporter is saying "I will now vote for Kerry." It's that even among the most die-hard rural NRA Wisconsin macho men Kerry is now associated with something positive and seems at least a mainstream choice... the TV announcers didn't keel over dead talking about a President Kerry, for instance.

Politics is a weird mix of raising positives and lowering negatives.

MODS: this is not about the game itself; it's a sociological observation

[cubsfan forever]

1. Cool! n/t

Professor 2