{"id":201,"date":"2008-10-15T23:24:05","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T23:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2008\/10\/voters-respond-to-obama-on-abo.html"},"modified":"2008-10-15T23:24:05","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T23:24:05","slug":"voters-respond-to-obama-on-abo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2008\/10\/voters-respond-to-obama-on-abo.html","title":{"rendered":"Voters respond to Obama on Abortion Reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In tonight&#8217;s Presidential debate, Senator Obama emphasized his commitment to finding common ground by seeking to reduce the need and numbers of abortions.<br \/>&nbsp; <br \/><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ziLbe9gSpMY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ziLbe9gSpMY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p>What was amazing to watch was the incredibly favorable response from Uncommitted Ohio Voters on CNN.&nbsp; Watch the voters positive response when Senator Obama emphasizes his approach on this difficult issue.<\/p>\n<p><i>*This video is cross-posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthew25.org\/blog.htm\">Matthew 25 Network blog<\/a>.<br \/><\/i> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In tonight&#8217;s Presidential debate, Senator Obama emphasized his commitment to finding common ground by seeking to reduce the need and numbers of abortions.&nbsp; What was amazing to watch was the incredibly favorable response from Uncommitted Ohio Voters on CNN.&nbsp; Watch the voters positive response when Senator Obama emphasizes his approach on this difficult issue. *This&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[221,129,5,168],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-08","tag-abortion-reduction","tag-matthew-25-network","tag-obama","tag-presidential-debate"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Voters respond to Obama on Abortion Reduction - Progressive Revival<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2008\/10\/voters-respond-to-obama-on-abo.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Voters respond to Obama on Abortion Reduction - Progressive Revival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In tonight&#8217;s Presidential debate, Senator Obama emphasized his commitment to finding common ground by seeking to reduce the need and numbers of abortions.&nbsp; 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