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Dan Rather was just on with Neil Cavuto, and they both commented on how Obama is ahead in the polls at this point and seems to be “running out the clock,” and that can be dangerous because you could begin to lose momentum… which we’re seeing to some extent with Obama’s lead beginning to shrink just a bit (Of course at the same time Gallup has Obama with an all-time high 11 point lead).

Anyway, I think that’s exactly what happened to the Cubs… they weren’t suddenly overwhelmed by history (plenty of Cubs teams have gotten the the Division Series, especially in the past ten years). Instead what happened was that Lou Piniella essentially played out the string, resting his players for the last week and a half of the season despite the fact that they were playing playoff-caliber teams, who were actually still in the race at the time. The result was that instead of being prepared after playing in a playoff atmosphere for a week and a half, Micah Hoffpauir padded his big league stats and the every day players looked completely flat-footed when the games actually mattered again.

Obama isn’t so compelling on the economy that he can just surf that wave into the White House… well unless of course he’s still leading by 11 in about three weeks. Then he might be able to.