Red Sox fans = Democrats = pumped up

I've been saying this for days now: The better the Red Sox do, the better Kerry does. Stands to reason:

Kerry's from Boston.
Massachusetts residents, and especially Bostonians, are hard-core Democrats.
But there are many, many Red Sox fans in other states, including swing states like New Jersey, Virginia (yes, polls show Virginia is close) and Minnesota -- former residents of the Boston area, now scattered about the country like so many leaves.
And the better the Red Sox do, the happier those fans will be and the more pumped up they will be to vote their Bostonian guy in.

And that leads us to our...

Republican of the week

One of the higher-ups here borrowed my NY Times to read the story of last night's "Monumental Collapse" (that was, from the New York perspective, the headline in the print edition). Knowing he was a big Red Sox fan and a Bush backer, I shared my Red Sox-Kerry theory with him, and his face positively fell. "In that case, we better hope they lose the series," he said, proving that class loyalty trumps even Red Sox fandom.