{"id":243,"date":"2005-02-20T10:25:57","date_gmt":"2005-02-20T15:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/20\/democrats-grass-roots-shift-the-power\/"},"modified":"2011-06-15T17:24:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T21:24:26","slug":"democrats-grass-roots-shift-the-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/democrats-grass-roots-shift-the-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats&#8217; Grass Roots Shift the Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will the dems grassroots movement reshape party politics? Read all about it in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/\">Washington Post<\/a>. The facts speak for themselves:<\/p>\n<p>1. the republicians beat the dems at the grassroots game in 2004. <br \/>2. given the make-up of the party, the democrats should have been able to get out more votes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A38436-2005Feb19.html\">Democrats&#8217; Grass Roots Shift the Power<\/a> (free reg required) (hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americablog.org\/\">ameriblog<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>It is no surprise that Democratic leaders are paying much closer<br \/>\nattention to grass-roots activists. In 2003 and 2004, those activists<br \/>\nbecame prodigious contributors to the Democratic Party, to Kerry and to<br \/>\nDean, who first tapped into their potential through the Internet during<br \/>\nhis campaign for the Democratic nomination.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will the dems grassroots movement reshape party politics? Read all about it in today&#8217;s Washington Post. The facts speak for themselves: 1. the republicians beat the dems at the grassroots game in 2004. 2. given the make-up of the party, the democrats should have been able to get out more votes. Democrats&#8217; Grass Roots Shift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}