Will baseball prove an early predictor of the US election? Tonight the New York Yankees face the Boston Red Sox in the first of a best-of-seven series to win a spot in the baseball World Series (and yes, we know how ironic that name is. Go away).
But consider this, fans: the Republican convention was held in New York. The Democratic national convention was held in Boston. The blog's Pet Elephant sports a button - courtesy of our blogging correspondent to the Boston convention - that reads: Kerry rules, Yankees suck.
The Elephant has been wrong before: his 'Don't Attack Iraq' button came to nothing.
Though his species may indicate otherwise, the Elephant is a staunch Democrat. His political conversion came about solely because no one in the Guardian's upper management saw fit to send a London-based blogger on an all-expenses paid trip to New York to bring back buttons. (We already have a correspondent in New York, they argued, the cheap so-and-so's.)
Anyhow, if the Red Sox lose the series, our little stuffed friend may become the Elephant of Lost Causes. Which does not bode well for the senator from Massachusetts.
Nor does the fact that the Red Sox last won the World Series in 1918.
