The Wall Street Journal reports that John McCain’s passion for years, in fact since the mid-90s, has been creating a better regulatory system for boxing in the United States. 

Here’s an extract from the [1] article:

Sen. McCain says he is "dismayed by the lack of integrity" in the sport. Boxers "are the poorest and least educated among us, and the most exploited athletes in our nation," he said in a recent statement. In a 2004 article in Stanford Law and Policy Review, Sen. McCain wrote that "professional boxing has reached the precipice of irrelevance and that federal uniform standards may be the only way to preserve the sport for the enjoyment of future generations."

Now I have nothing against boxers or creating a less-exploitative environment for boxers to fight in.  But if I were a senator, I think I would have a list of, oh, maybe 50 higher priorities that I would want to badger my colleagues in the Senate with?   It says something interesting about McCain that of all the things he could champion as a cause celebre, that it would be regulating boxing.  He chooses this over the improvement of children’s welfare, the environment, the high rate of incarceration, etc.

Anyway, something you might keep in mind as you consider who to vote for, or not vote for.