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The day after America's midterm election, Manny Pacquiao was talking politics. Understandable, since the boxing sensation has a side career as a congressman in the Philippines.
There's talk that one day he might be president in his homeland. Understandable, too, if only because he's the biggest sports hero the country has ever had, so popular that crime virtually stops there every time he gets in the ring.
But who would have thought that the little fighter who does things no other fighter has done could play a role in helping re-elect the majority leader of the U.S. Senate?
Hard to believe anything you hear when it involves boxing, but this time promoter Bob Arum isn't just making it up.
"I think Manny has to get a lot of the credit for his help in electing Sen. (Harry) Reid," Arum said Wednesday.
Political pundits have yet to weigh in on the effect of Pacquiao's effort on behalf of Reid, a former boxer himself who survived a brutal race to beat Republican Sharron Angle in Nevada. Listen to Arum, though, and Pacquiao's appearance at a Reid rally in Las Vegas a few days before the election was crucial in energizing the city's sizable Filipino community and getting them out to vote.
