Suddenly nobody is paying attention to the elections any more

I am enough of a sports fan to feel what it must mean to many Americans that the big mighty monopolistic capitalistic side (the Yankees) has been overhauled by the long-time hopefuls (Red Sox) and are within a game of going down to what for them is abject defeat (i.e. failing to make it to the finals). And certainly I carry enough detestation for the local equivalents of the Yankees (Manchester United, Arsenal, Milan, Juventus) to have every sympathy for the surprisingly large number of Bostonians on my f-list. But what I want to know is: is this going to sabotage the elections? Are all Yankee and Red Sox fans suddenly going to lose interest in a matter of mere politicians, when baseball history is being made? (Apparently, in the historic Italian elections of April 1948, civil war was narrowly averted when the legendary cyclist Fausto Coppi won a stage of the Giro d'Italia race in spectacular style, thus distracting all the angry Communist and anti-Communist supporters...)