{"id":3035,"date":"2010-10-05T01:46:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T08:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2010-10-05T01:46:48","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T08:46:48","slug":"the-democrats-arent-dead-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/05\/the-democrats-arent-dead-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Democrats Aren’t Dead Yet!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"5contest\" 28 days from election day, Democrats are finally starting to move up in the polls, as Americans consider the choice before us.  In almost all national races, the realistic choice is between a Democrat and a Republican,  as a Tea Party candidate is just another flavor of Republican.  Due to plurality based election rules, most third party candidates, however worthy, have little chance.  I think there are a couple reasons for the Democratic improvement.  First, people are now just beginning to think about the election seriously, and second, Republicans have effectively declared war on the poor and middle classes.  While Democrats, with all their flaws, at least try to represent everyone, Republicans govern exclusively for criminal corporations and America\u2019s richest 1%.<\/font><\/p>\n

Keith Olbermann interviews a very special guest about Republican class warfare.<\/font><\/p>\n

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On her own show, Rachel Maddow and Eugene Robinson discuss the polls, conventional wisdom, and the enthusiasm gap.<\/font><\/p>\n

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It looks like the Republicans started doing their victory dance too early, but we must continue to work to get lefties to the polls.<\/font><\/p>\n

Republican government is the punishment you deserve, if you don\u2019t vote!<\/font><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

28 days from election day, Democrats are finally starting to move up in the polls, as Americans consider the choice before us.  In almost all national races, the realistic choice is between a Democrat and a Republican,  as a Tea Party candidate is just another flavor of Republican.  Due to plurality based election rules, most […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}