{"id":21047,"date":"2015-06-19T11:38:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T15:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=21047"},"modified":"2015-06-19T11:38:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T15:38:58","slug":"why-sanders-is-a-good-fit-for-warren-backers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/06\/19\/why-sanders-is-a-good-fit-for-warren-backers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Sanders is a good fit for Warren backers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Ready For Warren<\/em> organization sent me an email about a big announcement.  The gist of the email is embodied in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/06\/19\/opinions\/sagrans-lenchner-warren-sanders\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The CNN opinion piece\">CNN opinion piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about members of the Ready For Warren campaign, the article said the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThey are also ready to back &#8220;Warren Wing&#8221; candidates who embody Warren&#8217;s fearless brand of progressive populism. And although it isn&#8217;t just about the presidency, 58% of supporters have urged us to back Bernie Sanders as the candidate currently running for president who best embodies the values that Warren champions.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am firmly in that 58% who urged the support of Bernie Sanders.  The article explained why the creation of a new organization to back Sanders.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhy?<\/p>\n<p>Because while Warren is the champion who inspired this movement, the draft effort was never just about her &#8212; it&#8217;s about her message and the values she represents.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is pretty darn close to the exact words I used in many an email and opinion survey answers that I directed to Ready For Warren.  What is left unsaid in the article is that of the 42% who did not suggest backing Bernie Sanders, how many of those just did not mention the topic of supporting another candidate.  I don&#8217;t think that those who do not want to back Bernie Sanders is anywhere near that 42%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ready For Warren organization sent me an email about a big announcement. The gist of the email is embodied in their CNN opinion piece. Talking about members of the Ready For Warren campaign, the article said the following: They are also ready to back &#8220;Warren Wing&#8221; candidates who embody Warren&#8217;s fearless brand of progressive [&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-21047","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\/21047","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=21047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21048,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21047\/revisions\/21048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}