{"id":2183,"date":"2007-12-11T11:35:38","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T17:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2008-03-27T20:31:23","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T04:31:23","slug":"oprah-endorses-obama-will-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2007\/12\/11\/oprah-endorses-obama-will-it-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah Endorses Obama: Will it Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest121107\/2007_12_11_dixon.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest121107\/2007_12_11_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/p\/ap\/20071210\/capt.e042b2c5886b4ac0a57429a6c5d159c4.oprah_obama_2008_nhea108.jpg?x=279&#038;y=345&#038;sig=N3JjEU1Nr2BX839ddsGIBg--\" alt=\"Oprah Obama\" \/><em>GUEST: Bruce Dixon, Managing Editor of the Black Agenda Report<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the primary elections, Senator Barack Obama and international television celebrity Oprah Winfrey toured three key states this past weekend. The two spoke before crowds of tens of thousands of Obama supporters in New Hampshire, Iowa, and South Carolina. In an unprecedented political endorsement, Winfrey rallied on behalf of Obama\u2019s presidential bid in strategic states at strategic times. The weekend tour comes at a time when those three states have primary elections scheduled in just a few weeks. Senator Barack Obama and his main democratic rival, Senator Hillary Clinton, are just percentage points shy of each other in all three states. Political analysts differ on what is now being called the \u201cOprah effect.\u201d While Oprah Winfrey\u2019s book club inevitably catapults books onto best seller lists some analysts believe her celebrity endorsement of Barack Obama\u2019s presidential campaign won\u2019t likely turn into votes. Others note that her influence as the host of a program that reaches forty-six million viewers can only be beneficial to the campaign. <\/p>\n<p>Read Bruce Dixon&#8217;s writings at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackagendareport.com\">www.blackagendareport.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Bruce Dixon, Managing Editor of the Black Agenda Report Ahead of the primary elections, Senator Barack Obama and international television celebrity Oprah Winfrey toured three key states this past weekend. The two spoke before crowds of tens of thousands of Obama supporters in New Hampshire, Iowa, and South Carolina. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}