Nate Silver may have built his amazing site fivethirtyeight on the basis of his facility with the seemingly infinite number of baseball statistics, but I have an idea for a political campaign stats site — called simply “five” — that will be based on just this one statistic: Obama-Biden is the third U.S. presidential ticket on which both names contain five letters each. Before Obama, Richard Nixon was the only candidate of any party in American history to lead a presidential ticket featuring two five-letter names.

That’s a good electoral precedent for Obama — Nixon-Agnew won twice, the second time in a landslide, and even if that hadn’t happened, neither Nixon nor Agnew saw his term in office come to a natural end. And the other such ticket Nixon led, with Henry Cabot Lodge in 1960, lost in a squeaker, although it’s debatable whether that combo should count in these calculations, based on the way the five-letter name Lodge clung to that other five-letter name, Cabot. But let’s leave that conundrum to baseball stat-heads to pick over. Five.com predicts: an Obama-Biden victory, but watch out for the second term.