{"id":2218,"date":"2008-01-04T11:44:35","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T17:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2008-01-04T11:47:17","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T17:47:17","slug":"how-progressives-can-win-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/01\/04\/how-progressives-can-win-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"How Progressives Can Win Elections"},"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\/DailyDigest-010408\/2008_01_04_horn.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-010408\/2008_01_04_uprising.mp3\">  the entire program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.framingthefuture.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/www.stateaction.org\/framingthefuture\/images\/bookcoverlarge.jpg\" alt=\"Framing the Future\" \/><\/a><em>GUEST: Bernie Horn, Senior Director for Policy and Communications at the Center for Policy Alternatives, author of &#8220;Framing the Future: How Progressives can Win Elections and Influence People&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Polls consistently show that most Americans espouse progressive values such as affordable healthcare for all, curbing global warming, protecting abortion rights, stricter gun control, etc. As this year&#8217;s Presidential election battles start heating up, the question arises, &#8220;so why is it so hard for progressive candidates to win elections?&#8221; My next guest, veteran political consultant Bernie Horn, says it&#8217;s because progressives don&#8217;t know how to explain their ideas effectively, beyond speaking to the choir. He says progressives can win elections if they &#8220;Frame the Future.&#8221; And in fact, they have won elections, even in conservative states such as Montana, Arizona, and Florida. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.framingthefuture.org\">www.framingthefuture.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Bernie Horn, Senior Director for Policy and Communications at the Center for Policy Alternatives, author of &#8220;Framing the Future: How Progressives can Win Elections and Influence People&#8221; Polls consistently show that most Americans espouse progressive values such as affordable healthcare for all, curbing global warming, protecting abortion rights, stricter gun [&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-2218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218","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=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}