The Chargers will be trying to win games and votes in 2016.
The two are not mutually exclusive.
At every level of the organization, there is an acknowledgement that how the team does on the field could influence how it does at the ballot box.
Sure, there will be so much more that influences the campaign. But in the Padres’ 1998 World Series appearance leading to a rout in the Petco Park election held two weeks later, we have an example of a populace voting with its heart.
Thursday’s release of the NFL schedule lets us know who it is the Chargers have to beat leading up to Election Day and beyond.