{"id":17399,"date":"2010-01-20T03:43:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T03:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/fivethirtyeight_white_house_readies_gamble_on_high-speed_ping-pong\/"},"modified":"2010-01-20T03:43:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T03:43:49","slug":"fivethirtyeight_white_house_readies_gamble_on_high-speed_ping-pong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17399","title":{"rendered":"Fivethirtyeight: White House Readies Gamble On High-Speed Ping-Pong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House&#8217;s announcement yesterday that it will schedule its State of the Union address for next Wednesday, January 27th, an earlier date than most insiders expected, is surely not coincidental and reflects a desire to pressure the House into voting for the Senate&#8217;s version of the health care bill almost immediately, assuming that Scott Brown defeats Martha Coakley in Massachusetts tonight.<\/p>\n<p>The pitch that the White House and Nancy Pelosi will make to the Democratic members of the House is a difficult one and will need to be extremely well executed, but is likely to consist of one or more of the following arguments&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/2010\/01\/white-house-to-gamble-on-high-speed.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House&#8217;s announcement yesterday that it will schedule its State of the Union address for next Wednesday, January 27th, an earlier date than most insiders expected, is surely not coincidental and reflects a desire to pressure the House into<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17399\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,513,104,616,151,667,618],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-health-medicine","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}