With only a few short days left in this presidential election cycle, it's always interesting to look at the political axioms, however odd or strange, to see how each candidate is doing.

While these axioms are not by any means determinants of the election, some have political insight -- while others are absurdly fun to consider.

1. High Prices at the Pump Hurt the Incumbent Party

This is more of a new political axiom, for decades the prices of oil and gasoline held steady or at least paced with overall inflation.

HANOVER, NH – On Wednesday, The Centrist Project announces its endorsement of two Independent candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives: Martin Babinec of New York (NY-22) and Alan LaPolice of Kansas (KS-1).

Our country is in crisis.

Divisions and factions appear everywhere we look. We are slicing and dicing ourselves into homogenous --some say tribal-- groups where our thinking is validated and the “other” is increasingly demonized, dehumanized and assessed with evil intentions.

And it’s all happening on schedule.

San Diego, CALIF. - Arguably, the most intensely contested and important measures to go before the voters of the City of San Diego on November 8 are C and D.

Conventional wisdom states that only one of the major party candidates can win and you're not being realistic if you vote for some other candidate. This conventional wisdom is nothing more than consensus reality. A political duopoly controls the election and there are many examples.

"It became necessary to destroy the town to save it', a United States major said today. He was talking about the decision by allied commanders to bomb and shell the town regardless of civilian casualties, to rout the Vietcong." - Peter Arnett, AP Correspondent, Feb. 7, 1968

The lesson we should have learned from our past: destroying a city to save it might win the battle, but seldom wins the war.

Libertarian vice presidential nominee Gov. Bill Weld released a statement Wednesday lambasting the websites and media outlets that have used his criticism of Trump to suggest that he was retreating from his running mate, Gov. Gary Johnson, and making a de facto endorsement for Hillary Clinton.

"Led by Occupy Democrats, a well-known mouthpiece for the left, the sensationalists and wishful thinkers are re-writing my forceful condemnation of Donald Trump into a suggestion that voters should support Hillary Clinton," says the statement from Weld.

Measure 5 puts ranked choice voting (RCV) on the ballot to be used statewide. RCV is worthwhile to support because it’s better than Maine’s current plurality voting system. But if you dress up RCV and say it can do things that it can’t, then you’ll set yourself up for disappointment. And that false praise may very well set up Maine to add itself to the list of places that have repealed RCV.

This week we discussed what having a woman president could mean for women in politics and gender relations. We welcomed Congresswoman Susan Davis (CA-53), who discussed the effect HRC could have as a female role model, as well as the Pentagon's order for U.S. Soldiers to return reenlistment bonuses from the mid 2000s.

Game one of the World Series last night was a blowout, as the Cleveland Indians beat the Chicago Cubs, 6-0. So that was not fun if you’re a Cubs fan, as I am through the World Series.

I also texted Theo Epstein Saturday night in the 7th inning, while the Cubs were beating the LA Dodgers 5-0 at Wrigley, and I wrote that his team would win four straight. So, while that’s still possible, it’s not probable.