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<title><![CDATA[Al Hunt - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14397.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Al Hunt]]></description><category domain="14397">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Congress, Clean Up This Corrupt Cesspool]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2025-05-16/trump-washington-congress-white-house-supreme-court-corruption</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[50 years after Watergate, ethics reforms are undone or ignored and Washington seems more corrupt than'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' ever.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Dem Governor Needs To Enter the Presidential Race Now]]></title>
							<link>https://themessenger.com/opinion/biden-polls-democratic-governors-2024-new-hampshire-presidential-challenger</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's time for '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Big Gretch,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'California Cool,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'New Jersey guy,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Illinois' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'big man'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' or '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Carolina Blue'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' to jump in the pool.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dem Governors Should Be Ready To Jump In 2024 Race]]></title>
							<link>https://themessenger.com/opinion/democratic-governors-should-be-ready-in-the-wings</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's almost time for Gretchen Whitmer, Roy Cooper or Gavin Newsom to think about jumping into the presidential pool.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DeSantis Prospects Rest on the Don Losing His 'Teflon']]></title>
							<link>https://themessenger.com/opinion/desantis-prospects-rest-on-the-don-losing-his-teflon</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Florida governor's bullying of private businesses to heel to his ideological agenda has semi-fascist overtones.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Feel Heat at Home for the Health-Care Bill]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-11/republicans-feel-heat-at-home-for-the-health-care-bill</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[House members are running away from constituents and trying to change the subject.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Is Back. That's Good News for the Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-30/what-obama-can-do-for-the-democrats</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He won't respond to Trump's attacks. But he can use his popularity to bridge his party's divisions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Hold Weak Hand for Tax-and-Spend Poker]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-09/republicans-hold-weak-hand-for-tax-and-spend-poker</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here are four ways to play the game. (They're all losers.)]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[North Carolina Is the Real Bellwether State]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-10-30/north-carolina-is-the-real-bellwether-state</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans and Democrats view both the presidential race and an open Senate seat as must-wins.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Winning. Against Paul Ryan.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-10-20/trump-is-winning-against-paul-ryan</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No matter who wins the White House, the House speaker faces Republican resistance.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Are Hoping for a Wave]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-07/democrats-see-trump-sinking-other-republicans</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Can Trump bring down other Republicans?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Case for Trump Over Clinton Is a Loser]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-03-23/the-case-for-trump-over-clinton-is-a-loser</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump says he'll be a dynamite general election candidate, winning reliably Democratic states like New York and Pennsylvania and capturing unprecedented "crossover" votes from Democrats and independents. Many other Republicans say he'd be a disaster.Who's right? As of now, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Candidates Fail to Tell How They Would Govern]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-11-01/candidates-fail-to-tell-how-they-would-govern</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican presidential candidates' three debates have been sometimes compelling, often contentious and always amusing.We've learned a lot less about how any of the candidates would govern. They have chiefly relied on cliches, buzzwords and attempts to prove which of them most...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Underestimating Ted Cruz? Don't.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-08-18/ted-cruz-shouldn-t-be-underestimated-al-hunt-explains-</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ted Cruz is a man with a plan. The Republican presidential candidate, bete noire of his party's establishment, has carefully calculated a path to becoming the right-wing standard-bearer.That makes him the most underestimated candidate in the field.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama's Winning Streak Continues]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-17/obama-scores-again-with-cuba-normalization?alcmpid=view</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Never before has a president experienced as severe an election drubbing as Barack Obama did in November and followed it with such a politically triumphant six weeks. Obama scored his latest coup today by announcing that the U.S. and Cuba would restore full diplomatic relations and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Led by Pelosi, Dems Are Winning Battle for Donors]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-07-26/pelosi-binds-democrats-with-republican-assist</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democrats have little say in the agenda of the Republican-run House, and no dispassionate expert predicts the party will win control in the November elections. More likely is a Republican House majority for at least three or four more elections.That should be a prescription for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Both Sides Wound Up Losing Budget Battle]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-06/how-both-sides-wound-up-losing-budget-battle.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A grand fiscal bargain, with perhaps $2 trillion more in deficit reduction over 10 years -- more than a quarter of which would be additional revenue and much of the rest obtained through well-crafted, significant cutbacks in big- ticket entitlements -- could have been a win-win for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lincoln's Master Class in Politics]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-25/lincoln-s-master-class-in-politics.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Before scheduling any budget negotiations at the White House, on Capitol Hill or at Camp David, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders should go see Steven Spielberg's classic new film, "Lincoln."It's the best movie about Washington politics I've seen. The centerpiece is the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Obama Avoid Bush's 2nd-Term Errors?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-11/obama-needs-rainmaker-to-steer-around-fiscal-cliff.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are striking parallels between Barack Obama's re-election victory last week and that of George W. Bush in 2004.Both incumbents began with mediocre job-approval ratings; each had a political albatross: the Iraq war for Bush, the economy this time; and both managed to define the race...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt's Debate Win Doesn't Make It 1980 Again]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-07/romney-s-debate-win-doesn-t-make-it-1980-again.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney's winning performance inlast week's presidential debate has reinforced his campaign's belief that this election parallels the one in 1980: In troubled times, Republicans inevitably defeat an unpopular Democratic president.While Romney gets to hit the reset button after...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tea Party Sets Its Sights on the Senate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-05/tea-party-sets-its-sights-on-the-senate.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The House last year became the spiritual home of the Tea Party, which helped elect dozens in the 2010 Republican landslide. Success in the Senate was limited.In 2013, the Senate may become the Tea Party's cathedral.This year, Tea Party activists are winning Republican Senate primaries...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[One-Term Presidents Are Usually History's Losers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-29/one-term-presidents-don-t-make-the-grade-with-historians.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[U.S. political junkies are being treated to a feast this summer: David Maraniss'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' acclaimed new book on Barack Obama, the durable Mitt Romney biography by two Boston Globe reporters and, of course, another installment of Robert Caro'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s classic series on Lyndon Johnson.After...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Obama Campaign Needs an Intervention]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-17/obama-campaign-s-friends-should-organize-an-intervention.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During a focus group in Denver last week, Jeffrey Penny laid out his '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'criteria'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' for giving President Barack Obama his vote this year as he did in 2008.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I just want to see specifics and quit the trash talk,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' the 31-year-old web designer and construction worker says in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Team Obama Shows Dangerous Penchant for Hubris]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-05/team-obama-shows-dangerous-penchant-for-hubris-albert-r-hunt.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama is headed for political turbulence. That prediction isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t based on any private polling data or inside information. It's just common sense: National political campaigns are cyclical, and after an especially good cycle, the Democratic president is due for some...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Newt Had Nothing To Do With Reagan Revolution]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-29/gingrich-may-be-trying-to-win-one-from-the-gipper-albert-hunt.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To listen to the candidate, the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s was about the Gipper and Newt.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I worked with President Reagan in the entire recovery of the 1980s,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Newt Gingrich declared in a recent debate of Republican presidential hopefuls. He frequently talks about the way he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Would Face a Familiar Opponent in Romney]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-13/obama-would-face-a-familiar-opponent-in-romney-albert-r-hunt.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Barack Obama and Mitt Romney face each other in the 2012 U.S. election, they might bring the highest combined IQ of any presidential race. They are super smart men, who quickly absorb data, policy wonks able to analyze complicated choices.They are super smart men, who quickly absorb...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Will Seek $300 Billion in New Stimulus]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-06/obama-said-to-plan-more-than-300-billion-for-jobs-to-boost-u-s-economy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama plans to propose sparking job growth by injecting more than $300 billion into the economy next year, mostly through tax cuts, infrastructure spending and direct aid to state and local governments.Obama will call on Congress to offset the cost of theshort-term jobs...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[High Court May Wade Into Election Year Politics]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-10/supreme-court-may-wade-into-election-year-politics-albert-hunt.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A familiar pattern of pastpresidential elections is that early in the cycle both partiesgin up their base with warnings about dire consequences if theother side controls the next Supreme Court selections; after afew well-timed speeches and fundraising appeals the matter isusually ignored...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Politicians Lag Voters on Same-Sex Marriage]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-03/politicians-lag-u-s-voters-on-same-sex-marriage-albert-hunt.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Almost 30 years ago, I flew aroundNew York State with its new governor, Mario Cuomo. He told methat at a gay and lesbian advocacy dinner that week he and Bella Abzug, a firebrand left-wing former congresswoman, were the onlystraight people in attendance.I offhandedly remarked that the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beck Channels Depression-Era Invective]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-05/beck-s-pitch-channels-depression-era-invective-commentary-by-albert-hunt.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Glenn Beck, at his successful '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Restoring America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' rally in Washington, wrapped himself in the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. He fits much better with another religious-political figure, the late Charles E. Coughlin, the Catholic priest who led a populist-right crusade against...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Washington's Substance Deficit Fuels Civility Gap]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&amp;sid=aDps93QEOXLQ</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Al Hunt</author>
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