Hillary Clinton Sports Fandom Profile: Part 2
Hill’s record of supporting sports teams suffers from three main problems: 1) Her life has moved her from a childhood in Illinois, to education in New England, to the Governor’s mansion in Arkansas, to the White House in Washington D.C., to a Senatorial seat in New York, thus she would have developed allegiances to several different regions and their respective sports teams; 2) She appears to be disinterested in team sports; 3) She has a politician’s instinct to never get pinned down- ever- even when rooting for a sports team.
Her contradictory fandom has even made for the title of an increasingly famous book, “I’ve Always Been a Yankees Fan: Hillary Clinton in Her Own Words.” Instead of getting swift-boated, Hillary is in danger of getting Steve-Bartmaned by a voting block Fantivity.com will discover as we speak, the Team Loyalty Guys. The Team Loyalty Guys constitute the voting public, typically male, age 18 to 55, who will vote for the candidate they feel best aligns with their sports fan philosophy. They might be as powerful as the Evangelicals or the Soccer Moms if they were to ever realize their power. But I digress…
When pressed in a recent debate into supporting either the Yankees or the Cubs in a hypothetical World Series matchup of the two teams she has claimed to be a fan of, Hillary drew eye-rolling laughter from a neutral crowd for her unnecessary politicking when she told moderator Tim Russert that she would “alternate sides.” Hillary, you ol’ whistle-stopper. That’s no way to win the Team Loyalty Guy vote.
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