{"id":62080,"date":"2008-11-03T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vip.local\/2008\/11\/03\/2008-election\/"},"modified":"2008-11-03T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T17:55:00","slug":"2008-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/2008-election\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know this is a Red Sox site and people sometimes don&#8217;t want to be bothered by politics but I <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.usatodaysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/95\/2016\/09\/deed9-mccain.jpg\"><img alt=\"2008 Election\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.usatodaysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/95\/2016\/09\/deed9-mccain.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>hope you will take the time to vote for Obama on Nov. 4.  I respect that there are Republican Red Sox fans out there and some of them thankfully visit this site.  I met John McCain in 2006 and he was a very nice guy but I just disagree with him on the future of our country on several issues.  The election will not be close in California but it will be in other states so please make your vote count wherever you are.   You have the power to put the country in a new direction so please do your part and vote for Obama.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.usatodaysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/95\/2016\/09\/eedde-obama08.png\"><img alt=\"2008 Election\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.usatodaysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/95\/2016\/09\/eedde-obama08.png?w=300\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Fenway West- The Western Home to Red Sox Nation http:\/\/www.fenwaywest.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know this is a Red Sox site and people sometimes don&#8217;t want to be bothered by politics but I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25860808],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - 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