{"id":1310,"date":"2006-08-16T20:31:37","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T20:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2006-08-16T20:31:37","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T20:31:37","slug":"the_power_of_po","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1310","title":{"rendered":"The Power Of Positive Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are less than three months away from the midterm elections, which means that the progressive blogosphere is due to start panicking&#8230;now.&nbsp; OMG, Casey is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2006\/8\/16\/105856\/650\">blowing his lead<\/a> over Santorum!&nbsp; OMG, the Democrats&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydd.com\/story\/2006\/8\/16\/17150\/3421\">election strategy sucks<\/a>!&nbsp; OMG, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/mld\/philly\/15203194.htm\">Greens are Republican tools<\/a>!&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Take a deep breath, everyone.&nbsp; While it&#8217;s never wise to forecast the future of the political landscape, I&#8217;m generally confident that enough people are sufficiently horrified by the last few disastrous years of Republican leadership to hand Democrats significant pickups in Congress and several governorships.&nbsp; We may or may not get our dream of a Democratic House and\/or Senate, but we can&#8217;t even think about doubting ourselves and the momentous wind at our backs.&nbsp; This can be our year to come out of the political cold and put this country on a saner path, if we&#8217;re willing to put our self-doubts aside and work damned hard between now and November.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll give some money to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pattywetterling.com\/\">Patty Wetterling<\/a> this week.&nbsp; What are you doing to make change happen this fall?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are less than three months away from the midterm elections, which means that the progressive blogosphere is due to start panicking&#8230;now.&nbsp; OMG, Casey is blowing his lead over Santorum!&nbsp; OMG, the Democrats&#8217; election strategy sucks!&nbsp; OMG, the Greens are Republican tools!&nbsp; Take a deep breath, everyone.&nbsp; While it&#8217;s never wise to forecast the future <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1310' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-l8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}