{"id":20906,"date":"2015-06-03T10:55:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T14:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20906"},"modified":"2015-06-03T10:55:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T14:55:12","slug":"bernie-sanders-pitches-issues-focused-debate-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/06\/03\/bernie-sanders-pitches-issues-focused-debate-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders pitches issues-focused debate changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Rachel Maddow Show<\/em> has this interview <a href=\"http:\/\/on.msnbc.com\/1KLyG1s\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Rachel Maddow Show interview\">Bernie Sanders pitches issues-focused debate changes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSenator Bernie Sanders, Democratic candidate for president, talks with Rachel Maddow about how he&#8217;s managing the logistics of a rapidly growing campaign and his ideas for holding bipartisan debates to keep campaigns focused on issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe src='http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_bbernie_150602_624458' height='500' width='635' scrolling='no' style=\"border:thick ridge #009900;\" ><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>The greatest ideas since presidential debates have been broadcast, maybe since presidential debates have ever been held.<\/p>\n<p>I think the Democratic party already has a rule that if a candidate participates in a debate outside their official schedule, then you cannot participate in one of their official debate.<\/p>\n<p>This is an anti-democratic rule that does not support the needs of the middle-class.  This is one of the many reasons I have stopped donating to the party.  I will only donate to candidates of my choosing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rachel Maddow Show has this interview Bernie Sanders pitches issues-focused debate changes. Senator Bernie Sanders, Democratic candidate for president, talks with Rachel Maddow about how he&#8217;s managing the logistics of a rapidly growing campaign and his ideas for holding bipartisan debates to keep campaigns focused on issues. The greatest ideas since presidential debates have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20907,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20906\/revisions\/20907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}