{"id":979,"date":"2010-10-22T14:06:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T20:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=979"},"modified":"2010-10-22T14:40:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T20:40:16","slug":"trying-to-stay-hopeful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"Trying to stay hopeful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talking Points Memo has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/gallery\/2010\/10\/tpm-polltrackers-top-polls-of-the-day.php?img=38\">a slideshow of polling trendlines<\/a> in a bunch of hot Senate and Governor&#8217;s Races. In spite of the Dems getting a little momentum recently, things still look pretty bad overall. I&#8217;m trying to stay upbeat (and yes, I&#8217;ve voted myself), but have to admit I&#8217;m pretty worried at this point about how bad it&#8217;s going to go on Election Day. <\/p>\n<p>If you know an Obama voter who is not turning out this year, please encourage them to vote! A lot of these races are only a few percentage points apart, and turnout will be key.<br \\><\/p>\n<p><b>Edit to add:<\/b> This is useful. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2010\/10\/15\/us\/politics\/tea-party-graphic.html\">An interactive map<\/a> of the races with self-identified Tea Party candidates, compiled by the NY Times.<br \\><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking Points Memo has a slideshow of polling trendlines in a bunch of hot Senate and Governor&#8217;s Races. In spite of the Dems getting a little momentum recently, things still look pretty bad overall. I&#8217;m trying to stay upbeat (and yes, I&#8217;ve voted myself), but have to admit I&#8217;m pretty worried at this point about how bad it&#8217;s going to go on Election Day. If you know an Obama voter who is not turning out this year, please encourage them to vote! A lot of these races are only a few percentage points apart, and turnout will be key. Edit <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=979\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[51,6],"tags":[48,96],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2","category-voting","tag-elections","tag-voting-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-fN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}