Oh, Lord, please tell me people aren't this stupid:
Science is confirming something successful politicians seem to know instinctively - support your local football team.
The success of major college teams in the two weeks before an election can have a measurable impact on how well incumbent politicians do at the polls, researchers report in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"Events that government had nothing to do with, but that affect voters' sense of well-being, can affect the decisions that they make on election day," the researchers said.
But if it is true, and since we're in the majority, go team!