{"id":2956,"date":"2013-01-10T11:51:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T16:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2956"},"modified":"2013-01-10T11:51:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T16:51:27","slug":"obama-political-machine-to-be-fired-up-ready-to-go-for-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/01\/obama-political-machine-to-be-fired-up-ready-to-go-for-second-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama political machine to be fired up, ready to go for second term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/01\/obama-political-machine-to-be-fired-up-ready-to-go-for-second-term\/ofalogo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2957\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2957\" alt=\"ofa=logo\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ofalogo.png\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ofalogo.png 200w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ofalogo-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/11\/obama-organization-to-remain-active-nationwide\/ofa_logo-vertical-digital\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2851\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Senior Obama campaign aides are currently working on the specifics of how to restructure Obama for America, but are considering several different options such as converting it to a 501c4 or perhaps a super PAC, a source familiar with the campaign said.<\/p>\n<p>The new campaign organization will be headed by Jim Messina, Obama\u2019s campaign manager who oversaw the president\u2019s victory over Republican Mitt Romney in November. Messina, Stephanie Cutter, Jennifer O&#8217;Malley Dillon and several other top Obama aides are working out the details.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the election, it was clear from the conversations with supporters that they wanted to continue the progress we made in the first four years and continue it together,\u201d said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2013\/01\/09\/obama-political-machine-to-be-fired-up-ready-to-go-for-second-term\/\" target=\"_blank\">Obama political machine to be fired up, ready to go for second term \u2013 CNN Political Ticker &#8211; CNN.com Blogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Obama campaign aides are currently working on the specifics of how to restructure Obama for America, but are considering several different options such as converting it to a 501c4 or perhaps a super PAC, a source familiar with the campaign said. The new campaign organization will be headed by Jim Messina, Obama\u2019s campaign manager&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,20],"tags":[42,1581,549],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956"}],"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=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2959,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions\/2959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}