{"id":14903,"date":"2025-10-27T16:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/if-democrats-want-to-win-they-need-to-start-driving-in-the-middle-lane\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T16:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:20:18","slug":"if-democrats-want-to-win-they-need-to-start-driving-in-the-middle-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/if-democrats-want-to-win-they-need-to-start-driving-in-the-middle-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"If Democrats want to win, they need to start driving in the middle lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To win national elections, Democrats should sound more like Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) than Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/campaign\/5572229-democrats-center-lane-strategy\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To win national elections, Democrats should sound more like Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) than Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}