{"id":51917,"date":"2022-08-30T09:09:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T16:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51917"},"modified":"2022-08-30T11:09:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T18:09:58","slug":"the-memo-five-reasons-democrats-midterm-chances-are-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51917","title":{"rendered":"The Memo: Five reasons Democrats\u2019 midterm chances are rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are feeling stirrings of optimism about November\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a remarkable shift of mood for a party that had been bracing for heavy defeats only a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>President Biden\u2019s party colleagues believe they have a strong chance of holding on to control of the Senate, at least.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s partly because Republican candidates are struggling in key states such as Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also because the Democratic Party\u2019s poll ratings in general have ticked up, as have Biden\u2019s. The president recently hit 44 percent approval, the highest point in a year, in a Gallup poll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are feeling stirrings of optimism&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51918,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51917\/revisions\/51918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}