Some advice for a deadlocked Democrat -- go sailing.

According to a recent poll, 15 percent of boat owners say they are more likely to vote for a political candidate if he/she is a boater. By that statistic, if Hillary or Obama (please, not both) took up sailing, the democratic candidates' fight-to-the-party's-death would be a done deal.

Other interesting statistics from the recent survey by Progressive insurance:

• Twenty percent of boaters would never sell their boat. Six percent would only do so if threatened with physical harm. Five percent said they would only sell if asked to do so by their spouse. (Presumably that leaves one percent who think they can run to the boat faster than their spouse can smack them with a frying pan).
  
  
• The majority of boaters (77 percent) who sold their first boat did so to upgrade to a newer/better boat.
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• More boaters disagree (38 percent) than agree (27 percent) with the old adage "A boat owner's two greatest days are the day he buys his boat and the day he sells it."

And Democrats, there's no time to waste. In case it comes down to picking running mates at this summer's convention, here's something else to think about -- Kennedy was a sailor, L.B.J. wasn't.

Check out the results of the survey here.