{"id":276999,"date":"2016-11-02T19:26:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T18:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/obama-asks-blacks-to-show-more-support-for-clinton\/"},"modified":"2016-11-02T19:26:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T18:26:31","slug":"obama-asks-blacks-to-show-more-support-for-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/obama-asks-blacks-to-show-more-support-for-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama asks blacks to show more support for Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Barack Obama says the African American turnout in favor of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has been less than \u201csolid\u201d among early voters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During his appearance on the Tom Joyner Morning show on Wednesday, Obama said he was satisfied with the Hispanic vote but African American communities need to show more support for Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to be honest with you right now, because we track, we\u2019ve got early voting, we\u2019ve got all kinds of metrics to see what\u2019s going on, and right now, the Latino vote is up. Overall vote is up,\u201d Obama said. \u201cBut the African-American vote right now is not as solid as it needs to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s first black president, who has tried his best to line up his African American admirers behind Clinton, said Clinton\u2019s color of skin should not kill the enthusiasm that earned him the victory for two terms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u201cI know that a lot of people in the barber shops and the beauty salons and,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/11\/02\/491846\/Obama-US-African-American-Clinton-Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Barack Obama says the African American turnout in favor of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has been less than \u201csolid\u201d among early voters. During his appearance on the Tom Joyner Morning show on Wednesday, Obama said he was satisfied with the Hispanic vote but African American communities need to show more support for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}