{"id":3081,"date":"2008-09-12T12:45:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T16:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=3081"},"modified":"2008-09-12T12:45:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T16:45:31","slug":"more-change-you-can-forget-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=3081","title":{"rendered":"More change you can forget about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up until recently, Obama&#8217;s &#8220;new politics&#8221; included campaigning in all 50 states rather than in a handfull of states where he could influence electoral votes rather than popular support. Well, that&#8217;s gone under the proverbial bus according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/news\/2008\/sep\/12\/obama-backs-off-50-state-strategy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite the talk about a changing electoral map and new strategies, Barack Obama is pulling back from his 50-state plan as John McCain has solidified Republican support, turning November&#8217;s presidential election into a contest for the same handful of states that have swung the last two contests.<\/p>\n<p>The first round of post-convention polling shows Mr. McCain, in picking Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, has enthused Republicans. Meanwhile Mr. Obama, the Democrats&#8217; nominee, is pulling back resources from Georgia, a state he once boasted he would flip Democratic; is stepping up efforts to hold Democrats in Pennsylvania and Michigan; and is showering attention on Ohio, the lynchpin in Republicans&#8217; 2004 victory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But, don&#8217;t worry, just because he changes his mind on electioneering, that doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8221;ll change his mind on middleclass tax cuts or national healthcare or the war in Iraq or his pledge to make the US the world&#8217;s BFF or any of those myriad other promises about creating jobs and punishing corporations.<\/p>\n<p>it seems the only thing that&#8217;s changing is the perception of change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up until recently, Obama&#8217;s &#8220;new politics&#8221; included campaigning in all 50 states rather than in a &hellip; <a title=\"More change you can forget about\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=3081\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More change you can forget about<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,47,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-liberals-suck","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}