50 years ago my dad sat me down and showed me a Time or Newsweek or some such magazine article that said there was going to be a new Ice Age and that we were fucked. He was wrong, so are you.
You will have a really hard time find a Benz with a stick. Their target market is the discerning luxury sports car buyer, not the knuckle dragging mullet wearing crowd.
That's when the wife and I are going. @ricer1 will probably be there. Dinner afterwards. Plan on being at the door a 3 when it opens.
It's the better day, much less crowded until after 5pm or so.
A better analogy would be the world series. Where the winner is determined by winning 4 games (states/electoral college) rather than the total number of runs (votes) over 7 games. that happened once back in the 60's I think. The losing team scored far more runs than the winning team.