Obama's Election Day playbook: Basketball

MADISON, Wis. — President Obama has at least one event on his Election Day schedule, and it's one of his campaign traditions: Basketball.

Former White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters that Obama has notified former aide Reggie Love — who played at Duke — to organize a pickup game Tuesday in Chicago.

Obama has almost always played hoops on election days, and now it is a bit of a superstition.

Obama skipped the game on the day of one crucial contest — the 2008 New Hampshire primary.

He wound up losing that one to then-rival Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Obama said he would never repeat that omission — and he won't in this his last race as a politician.

"We made the mistake of not playing basketball once," Gibbs said. "We won't make that mistake again."