{"id":1640,"date":"2016-02-01T14:55:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T06:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/01\/democrats-closing-pitches-in-iowa-hard-choices-vs-revolution\/"},"modified":"2016-02-01T14:55:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T06:55:21","slug":"democrats-closing-pitches-in-iowa-hard-choices-vs-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/01\/democrats-closing-pitches-in-iowa-hard-choices-vs-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats&#039; closing pitches in Iowa: &#039;Hard choices&#039; vs. &#039;Revolution&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ap_826526844208\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAyLzAxL2E5L0FQXzgyNjUyNjg0LjFiOTBhLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/67a1d413\/924\/AP_826526844208.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Democrats%27+closing+pitches+in+Iowa%3A+%27Hard+choices%27+vs.+%27Revolution%27&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F02%2F01%2Fhillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-iowa%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F02%2F01%2Fhillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-iowa%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>DES MOINES, Iowa \u2014 Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders came full circle with their closing arguments before the Iowa caucuses, the former emphasizing &#8220;Hard choices&#8221; and the latter touting &#8220;Political revolution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The two returned to the core initial messages of their candidacies as they made their final pitches to voters in what&#8217;s turned into a nail-biter of a race in the early-voting state. Clinton reprised the title of her memoir &#8220;Hard Choices&#8221; to argue that she&#8217;s the battle-tested candidate who can move liberal priorities forward and protect the country. Sanders called for upending the status quo. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/02\/01\/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-iowa\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/democrats\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Democrats<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/us-world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Us World<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/politics\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Politics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/campaign-2016\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Campaign 2016<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/iowa\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Iowa<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/ofJkgDc6IOc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DES MOINES, Iowa \u2014 Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders came full circle with their closing arguments before the Iowa caucuses, the former emphasizing &#8220;Hard choices&#8221; and the latter touting &#8220;Political revolution.&#8221; The two returned to the core initial messages of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/01\/democrats-closing-pitches-in-iowa-hard-choices-vs-revolution\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1300,1299,1292,749,732],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-campaign-2016","tag-democrats","tag-iowa","tag-politics","tag-us-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}