{"id":208,"date":"2011-09-16T18:24:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T22:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=208"},"modified":"2011-09-16T18:27:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T22:27:51","slug":"obama-reaches-out-to-nervous-dems-puts-2012-into-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/09\/obama-reaches-out-to-nervous-dems-puts-2012-into-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Reaches Out To Nervous Dems, Puts 2012 Into Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/09\/obama-reaches-out-to-nervous-dems-puts-2012-into-perspective.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Obama-Town-Hall-Flag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to small audience of Democrats Thursday night, Obama acknowledged the jitters on his side, and jokingly reminded his audience of just how improbable their conversation was in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, I know that, over the last couple of months, there have been Democrats who voiced concerns and nervousness about, well, in this kind of economy, isn\u2019t this just \u2014 aren\u2019t these just huge headwinds in terms of your reelection?,\u201d Obama said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I just have to remind people that \u2014 here\u2019s one thing I know for certain,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe odds of me being reelected are much higher than the odds of me being elected in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/09\/obama-reaches-out-to-nervous-dems-puts-2012-into-perspective.php\">Obama Reaches Out To Nervous Dems, Puts 2012 Into Perspective | Election 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Speaking to small audience of Democrats Thursday night, Obama acknowledged the jitters on his side, and jokingly reminded his audience of just how improbable their conversation was in the first place. \u201cNow, I know that, over the last couple of months, there have been Democrats who voiced concerns and nervousness about, well, in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[90,42,91,89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}