{"id":157621,"date":"2020-08-23T15:59:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T13:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/08\/23\/the-democratic-convention-went-off-without-hitches-but-was-it-a-success-geoffrey-kabaservice\/"},"modified":"2020-08-23T15:59:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T13:59:23","slug":"the-democratic-convention-went-off-without-hitches-but-was-it-a-success-geoffrey-kabaservice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=157621","title":{"rendered":"The Democratic convention went off without hitches. But was it a success? | Geoffrey Kabaservice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biden may get a temporary bump in the polls, but viewership for Biden\u2019s speech was down 21% from Clinton\u2019s in 2016This past week, the former vice-president laid out a forceful case for the importance of empathy and character in high office, his ability to reverse the manifold failures of Donald Trump\u2019s regime, and the threat that a second Trump term would pose to American democracy. Did he \u2013 and his fellow Democrats at the convention who echoed his points \u2013 do so successfully? In today\u2019s tribal and polarized America, there\u2019s no easy way to answer that question.Both Biden\u2019s speech and the convention as a whole clearly were pitched toward moderate Democrats and even some Republicans, particularly in swing states. From the perspective of those viewers, Biden and his party performed brilliantly. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/aug\/23\/the-democratic-convention-went-off-without-hitches-but-was-it-a-success\" target=\"_blank\">The Democratic convention went off without hitches. But was it a success? | Geoffrey Kabaservice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden may get a temporary bump in the polls, but viewership for Biden\u2019s speech was down 21% from Clinton\u2019s in 2016This past week, the former vice-president laid out a forceful case for the importance of empathy and character in high office, his ability to reverse the manifold failures of Donald [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}