{"id":1141,"date":"2008-08-20T12:29:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T16:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2008-08-20T12:29:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T16:29:22","slug":"lets-get-swinging-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/08\/20\/lets-get-swinging-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Get Swinging, Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Arena, following a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americablog.com\/2008\/08\/why-people-should-be-worried-about.html\">rundown of a negative polling trend for Obama<\/a>, notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not all is lost folks, Obama has time and money to make a shift. But if you thought that somehow this year was going to be different &#8211; something would change and somehow the American electorate would look completely different this year than any other year, the numbers today just don&#8217;t show that. This isn&#8217;t a transformative election, it&#8217;s another hardscrabble, claw out each and every vote, election. To win that kind of election, you need to fight for every vote and fight hard. That&#8217;s why you hear the concern you hear from Josh Marshall, John, Joe, etc. And it&#8217;s backed up by years of experience watching the Republicans make Democrats look weak &#8211; Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, and Kerry. That line of attack works when not countered and we were defeated. None of us want that in 2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hope alone will not win this election.\u00c2\u00a0 Obama &#8211; and his supporters &#8211; need to daily illustrate that John McCain is a man without principles, who will do and say <em>anything<\/em> to win.\u00c2\u00a0 And that should he win, it will be to the great detriment of this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Arena, following a rundown of a negative polling trend for Obama, notes: Not all is lost folks, Obama has time and money to make a shift. But if you thought that somehow this year was going to be different &#8211; something would change and somehow the American electorate would look completely different this year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}