A sports-eye view into politics

What is the percentage of George W Bush haters? What percentag always vote Democrat, irregardless of who is running for office? What is the minimum popular vote percentage that President Barrack Obama can expect in the next presidential election?

A recent poll on Politics Daily could give an approximate answer to all of those answers.

The poll asked which President would you want as a starting pitcher, based on President Obama's opening pitch at the 2009 All-Star Game and President Bush's opening pitch at the grand opening of the Washington Nationals ballpark in 2008.

Bush threw a blazing fastball. He missed the zone, but considering his catcher was not in a crouch, that seemed of little relevance. Obama, on the other hand exhibited a nice leg kick reminiscent of the days of Yore. But the resulting pitch looked more like a pitch you'd see at the softball fields.

This is not a scientific poll. There are limitations in the question. Such as, the poll does not ask who would be the better pitcher. Obviously that was implied, but that implication is outside of due scientific process. Nor do the readers at Politics Daily reflect an indicative cross section of the national electorate.

So this poll cannot tell us what the percentage of classless fans booed President Bush at the 2008 Nationals home opener.

But the 27 percent tally is not surprising if you subscribe to Bill O'Reilly's Theory of Kool Aid Drinkers. O'Reilly has estimated that 15 to 25 percent of the electorate on either side of the aisle, blindly vote for their party or guy as it were.

I'd be willing to go down to his general 15-20 percent base on the basis that the guy in power also naturally garners more votes. But it is scary that virtually all of these Kool Aid drinkers cannot even put away their bias in the free wheeling sports world.

So 30-40 percent of people (counting both sides of the aisle), literally do not look at the merits of political matters when voting. We knew that. But it is interesting that something as trivial as the opening pitch at a baseball game could confirm that statistic.