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Expect an announcement from the Iowa Democrats sometime this week -- perhaps as early as today -- on when they will hold their caucuses. Much of the momentum behind the scenes appears to be for joining the Iowa GOP on January 3. 
NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)</generator><item><title>More oh-eight: The Red Sox effect?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/22/423512.aspx#423672</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:29:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:423672</guid><dc:creator>H P Boston</dc:creator><description>Another reason to LOVE those Red Sox! &amp;nbsp;A big relief from all this election drool!&lt;br&gt;GO TEAM HILLARY!</description></item><item><title>More oh-eight: The Red Sox effect?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/22/423512.aspx#423753</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:55:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:423753</guid><dc:creator>CitizenJ</dc:creator><description>The madness all makes sense now. The World Series is more important than the most important presidential election in recent history.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ah, who cares? Go Sox.</description></item><item><title>More oh-eight: The Red Sox effect?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/22/423512.aspx#423814</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:12:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:423814</guid><dc:creator>Cheyne, Fort Collins, CO</dc:creator><description>Go Colorado Rockies! &amp;nbsp;2007 Team of Destiny! &amp;nbsp;The Rockies have already beat Boston 2 of 3 games played in the '07 regular season. &amp;nbsp;ColoRockies have won 21 of the last 22 games. &amp;nbsp;7-0 in post season. &amp;nbsp;Oh yeah, also...&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;VOTE FOR CHANGE, VOTE OBAMA!!!</description></item><item><title>More oh-eight: The Red Sox effect?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/22/423512.aspx#423817</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:13:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:423817</guid><dc:creator>Cheyne, Fort Collins, CO</dc:creator><description>Go Colorado Rockies! &amp;nbsp;2007 Team of Destiny! &amp;nbsp;The Rockies have already beat Boston 2 of 3 games played in the '07 regular season. &amp;nbsp;ColoRockies have won 21 of the last 22 games. &amp;nbsp;7-0 in post season. &amp;nbsp;Oh yeah, also...&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;VOTE FOR CHANGE, VOTE OBAMA!!!</description></item><item><title>More oh-eight: The Red Sox effect?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/22/423512.aspx#423854</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:26:20 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:423854</guid><dc:creator>Michael Missouri</dc:creator><description>How many votes for Hillary will be an exact count of brain dead people in this country.</description></item><item><title>More oh-eight: The Red Sox effect?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/22/423512.aspx#423870</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:32:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:423870</guid><dc:creator>Christopher Michigan</dc:creator><description>Michael Missouri: &amp;nbsp;No, the exact count of brain dead people in this country is somewhere over 51 million - the number that voted for the treasoners, Bush/Cheney, in 2004.</description></item><item><title>More oh-eight: The Red Sox effect?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/22/423512.aspx#423913</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:41:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:423913</guid><dc:creator>Dan, Albany, NY</dc:creator><description>Haha - brain dead people vote for intelligent, self-made people? &amp;nbsp;I thought they shopped at walmart and voted for silver spooners who steal elections and start wars they can't finish.</description></item><item><title>More oh-eight: The Red Sox effect?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/22/423512.aspx#423920</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:42:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:423920</guid><dc:creator>Andre</dc:creator><description>Read this</description></item><item><title>More oh-eight: The Red Sox effect?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/22/423512.aspx#423938</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:46:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:423938</guid><dc:creator>U2</dc:creator><description>So its Tancredo versus Romney for the World Series !!</description></item><item><title>More oh-eight: The Red Sox effect?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/22/423512.aspx#423946</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:47:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:423946</guid><dc:creator>Lee, Warwick, RI</dc:creator><description>It amazes me how much energy we spend watching, talking and agonizing over sports. &amp;nbsp;But yet, I'm one of the many bleary eyed this morning after staying up late watching the Sox celebrate! Go Sox!! &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;BTW - We Need Obama! &amp;nbsp;</description></item><item><title>More oh-eight: The Red Sox effect?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/22/423512.aspx#423953</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:50:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:423953</guid><dc:creator>Leslie Caulfield, Orlando, FL</dc:creator><description>Medical research has shown that the parts of the brain that &amp;quot;light up&amp;quot; when we root for our sports teams (Go Red Sox) also light up when discussing political party affiliations and candidates we love and hate... BTW this is not the same parts of the brain that react to problem solving or logical rumination.</description></item><item><title>More oh-eight: The Red Sox effect?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/22/423512.aspx#423965</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:53:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:423965</guid><dc:creator>T.R., Norfolk, NE</dc:creator><description>Go Rockies!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And I am writing in Brigitte Helm as president. &amp;nbsp;True this is a rediculous choice, voting for a Dead, Ineligible, German Actress, but the rest of the field is such a joke that voting for her is actually a viable option in comparison.</description></item><item><title>More oh-eight: The Red Sox effect?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/22/423512.aspx#424011</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:10:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:424011</guid><dc:creator>H,  Amesbury, MA</dc:creator><description>Sweet it's to early for these dam campaigns anyway</description></item><item><title>More oh-eight: The Red Sox effect?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/22/423512.aspx#424012</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:10:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:424012</guid><dc:creator>H P Boston</dc:creator><description>Gee Lee why stay up late to watch a game?&lt;br&gt;I just read about it in the Globe this AM. &amp;nbsp;I never lose sleep over sports!&lt;br&gt;It is the the terrorist in chief that keeps me awake at night. Some of the worst nights come when I ponder the devastating sadness of families crying over the loss of family members in Iraq. Heavy stuff keeps me awake and bleary eyed.</description></item><item><title>More oh-eight: The Red Sox effect?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/22/423512.aspx#424017</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:11:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:424017</guid><dc:creator>Publius McPeters, Pittsburgh, PA</dc:creator><description>Apparently it is the same part of the brain, Leslie... &amp;nbsp;I, for instance , am a Pittsburgh Pirates fan... &amp;nbsp;Therefore, I must be brain dead, right? &amp;nbsp;lol... &amp;nbsp;but my brain for Politics certainly will not let me support any of these Republifascist clowns or Hillary... &amp;nbsp;I am, therefore, a terrible example of the theory sported by Leslie Caulfield... &amp;nbsp;Unless, of course, you theorize (like I do) that rooting for the Pirates is just as just as supporting an intelligent political candidate!! &amp;nbsp;lol</description></item><item><title>More oh-eight: The Red Sox effect?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/22/423512.aspx#424021</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:12:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:424021</guid><dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator><description>The question is how many of these phony candidates show up at a Red Sox game for some face time? &amp;nbsp;In the past, Mitt Romney has strategically placed his seat behind cut shots of right-handed batters so that he would continuously show up on camera in between every pitch. &amp;nbsp;Sad but true.</description></item><item><title>More oh-eight: The Red Sox effect?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/22/423512.aspx#424098</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:35:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:424098</guid><dc:creator>Anne, Valparaiso, Indiana</dc:creator><description>Originally I thought this story was going to reference the ultra liberalist elitists that make up the Red Sox &amp;quot;Nation.&amp;quot; &amp;nbsp;Too bad...</description></item><item><title>More oh-eight: The Red Sox effect?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/22/423512.aspx#424160</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:56:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:424160</guid><dc:creator>Anthony </dc:creator><description>I'm an openly Gay 19 year old who will vote Repuplican before he votes Hillary.(I'll probally just vote some third party in all honesty though)</description></item><item><title>More oh-eight: The Red Sox effect?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/22/423512.aspx#424163</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:57:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:424163</guid><dc:creator>H P Boston</dc:creator><description>No wonder I have an aversion to watching games. &amp;nbsp;Not just the Mitt shitt but I never watch FOX, ever!!&lt;br&gt;Shawn, Mitt and his clown face ruin everything.</description></item><item><title>More oh-eight: The Red Sox effect?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/22/423512.aspx#424288</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:32:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:424288</guid><dc:creator>Aaron Mayer</dc:creator><description>Only sox gans could actually think the red sox are more important than a presidential race that will determine whether many of these sox fans have jobs, social security, clean air or even a healthy environment, and oh yeah, whether we remain in Iraq, get out, or engage in a second war with Iran. &amp;nbsp;Typical of Sox fans.</description></item><item><title>More oh-eight: The Red Sox effect?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/22/423512.aspx#424320</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:42:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:424320</guid><dc:creator>Dan, Hartford, CT</dc:creator><description>I was up in Beantown, and Romney said he was going to cut taxes across the board. &amp;nbsp;He said as governor he would get rid fo the toll booths on the Pike, but they're still there!</description></item><item><title>More oh-eight: The Red Sox effect?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/22/423512.aspx#425285</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:43:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:425285</guid><dc:creator>H P Boston</dc:creator><description>Ya Dan he said a lot of things, the romaney rantings...&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;We already heard the talk but he never walked the walk. &amp;nbsp;All new talk much different walk. &amp;nbsp;He never mentions MASSACHUSETTS!</description></item></channel></rss>