Obama to UNC: Yes They Can!

Here is what President Barack Obama's NCAA tournament bracket looks like (click the picture for a high res version)...


While I'm pretty sure that Obama picking you should be inspiration enough for the NCAA to just hand you the title, I guess technically the games still have to be played.

He picks Louisville, Pitt, Memphis and UNC to go to the Final Four with UNC defeating Louisville for the title.

Interesting choices...while some may say the Prez took the easy way out in selecting three one seeds and one two seed, I see some ulterior motive behind his choices...


Let's go to the map...


Of his Elite Eight picks, only two come from red states in the 2008 Presidential Election, that being Louisville (Kentucky) and Memphis (Tennessee).
The rest are blue to the bone and in some cases even helped him win the election. Those teams would be Mich St., UConn (Connecticut), Pitt (Pennsylvania), Syracuse (New York), Duke (North Carolina) and UNC (North Carolina).

Sure he picked two red states to make it to the Final Four, but that was clearly just to pander to the opposition and in a classicly brilliant Obama move, selected them from the same side of the bracket so they would face each other and knock one out.

Is it really such a surprise then that UNC came out on top of Louisville in the final?

That's what you get for dissing the leader of the free world...you'll do better to vote blue next time if you wanna have a shot at winning it all.