Should Donald Trump swap Republican red for Chicago blue?

When the Chicago Cubs went down three games to one on Saturday in the best-of-seven World Series, they had a worse chance of winning the championship than Donald Trump had of upsetting Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for the presidency.

At least that was the take by FiveThirtyEight, an exceedingly popular politics and sports website run by polling guru Nate Silver. He had the Cubs’ chances of winning the Series at about 15 percent.

The website’s election predictor, meanwhile, has Trump sitting at a 31 percent chance of winning.

When the Indians held that 3-1 lead, the website had this headline: “The Cubs Have A Smaller Chance Of Winning Than Trump Does.”

But with a nerve-wracking, extra-inning win in tonight’s Game 7, the Cubs defied the odds and grabbed the crown.

Will The Donald? He probably likes his odds.

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Only three teams in history – the 1958 Yankees, the 1968 Detroit Tigers, and the 1979 Pirates – ever came back from a 3-1 deficit to take the World Series before the Cubs.

Here are some more quirky links between baseball and politics:

• Even though Chicago is traditionally a blue city, the owners of the Cubs, the billionaire Ricketts family, is not of that persuasion: It runs a pro-Trump political-action committee.

• The last time the Cubs won a World Series title, in 1908, then-Republican Theodore Roosevelt was president.

• The last time the Indians went to a World Series, in 1997, Democrat Bill Clinton – Hillary Clinton’s husband – was in the White House; in 1992, he beat out incumbent George H.W. Bush.

• The Democratic nominee was born in Chicago, two years after the Cubs’ last World Series appearance in 1945.

• The Cubs’ starter for Game 7 is ace Kyle Hendricks, who was born in Newport Beach in Orange County, which has traditionally been Republican but could go blue for the first time since 1936.

• This year’s Republic National Convention was in Cleveland, in swing-state Ohio – without which no Republican has ever won the presidency.