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Baseball and Politics, the Way for Obama to Seal the Deal


Even though we are all feeling pretty good about the chances Tuesday, here is a way for Obama to get those remaining undecideds and really make this election a blowout.  McCain is trying to play up the "spread the wealth" comment by Obama a couple weeks ago.  Obama should point out that his system as been proven to work, and in a business most Americans are familiar with, Major League Baseball. 

Back in the day, only the teams with massive amounts of money could compete.  These were the days the Yankees, Braves, and other big market teams dominated the MLB playoffs.  The rich got richer because they could bring in more revenue and better sponsorships.  Then baseball started revenue sharing, where the top revenue making teams had to give a portion of their proceeds to the teams barely treading water, a "luxury tax".  After this was implemented, we starting seeing more parity in baseball.  Teams like Colorado, Tampa Bay, Arizona, Minnesota, Florida were making playoff runs, and playing in the World Series. 

Obama could use this as an example of higher revenue making business, or people, paying more and the money being used to help lower revenue maker become successful enough to compete.    I think those on the fence will understand the analogy, and will be able to see that the words "spread the wealth" were meant to make their lived better by giving them a good example of how it works.

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