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<title><![CDATA[John Heilemann - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14409.xml</link><description><![CDATA[John Heilemann]]></description><category domain="14409">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Jimmy Kimmel Didn't Say Anything Sick or Depraved]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/09/20/msnbcs_john_heilemann_jimmy_kimmel_didnt_say_anything_sick_or_depraved.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The things that Jimmy Kimmel said, the sickest things, that was his quick characterization. You might not like what Jimmy Kimmel said, but there's not anything particularly sick or depraved about what he said. And really the thing that I think he said that most probably upset the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Sanders Brain Trust's Plan to Beat Hillary Clinton]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-10-28/bernie-sanders-brain-trust-says-he-can-beat-hillary-clinton</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Top aides Tad Devine and Jeff Weaver lay out his'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' path to victory. Step one: Take the gloves off.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Insurrection Erupts at the DNC]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-10-16/insurrection-erupts-at-the-democratic-national-committee</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz's'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' autocratic ways in limiting the number of primary debates, insiders say, alienated many of her colleagues. And the problem may get worse.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where Joe Biden Is Coming From]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-08-03/where-joe-biden-is-coming-from</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Three years ago, in mid-August 2012, I spent several days in close quarters with Joe Biden for a magazine profile I was writing. In an interview in his cabin aboard Air Force Two, I asked Biden about a topic much discussed back then, and even more so'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'to put it mildly'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'at this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Move Over Barack, Hill &amp; Bill Taking Over]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2014-10-10/move-over-barack-obama-the-clintons-are-taking-over</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This has been the week of the long-awaited, full-bore, balls-to-the-wall return of the Clintons to the campaign trail, first with Bill in Arkansas on Monday and Tuesday, then with Hillary in Chicago on Wednesday and Philadelphia last night. Every move the former First Couple makes is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Susan Rice Has Already Won]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/politics/powergrid/susan-rice-secretary-of-state-2012-12/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was Tuesday morning in Phnom Penh when Barack Obama decided to dispatch Hillary Clinton to the Middle East to try to help defuse the mounting conflict in Gaza. Clinton had been traveling at Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s side on his swing through Thailand, Burma, and Cambodia'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but now duty called,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Campaigns' War for Women]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/politics/powergrid/romney-obama-women-voters-2012-10/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The second presidential debate last week at Hofstra University in New York had been billed in advance as this cycle'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s town-hall-meeting-style affair, in which how the candidates interacted with the audience'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'engaging, emoting, empathizing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'would be crucial. Instead, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Will the Clintons Get for Saving Obama?]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/politics/elections-2012/bill-hillary-clinton-2012-10/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Four years ago, on September 11, Barack Obama made the pilgrimage to Harlem to have lunch with Bill Clinton. The meal was the first t'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ª').';'te-'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord(' ').';'-t'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ª').';'te between the soon-to-be president and the former one since the unpleasantness of the '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'Democratic nomination contest, and feelings on both...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Post-Debate Plan]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/print/?/news/politics/powergrid/romney-obama-presidential-debate-2012-10/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Mitt Romney took to the debate stage at the University of Denver Wednesday night, he was shouldering both a blessing and a curse. The blessing was that of expectations so low they were practically subterranean: According to the polls, voters believed by nearly a two-to-one margin...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden: Unchained]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/features/joe-biden-2012-9/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jesus Christ!'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Joe Biden barks, pitching forward in the captain'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s chair in his cabin aboard Air Force Two. We have just departed Roanoke, Virginia, for Washington, D.C., after a three-day campaign swing through North Carolina and the Old Dominion, during which Biden has been on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Are Grinning Madly]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/08/picking-ryan-why-romney-changed-to-obamas-game.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yesterday afternoon, as I was making my way into the White House for an interview, I ran into David Axelrod trundling along on his way out. We chatted idly for a few minutes about the political topic du jour: Who was Mitt Romney going to pick as his running mate? I told Axelrod that I...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Health Care Win-Win-Win]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/politics/powergrid/health-care-ruling-2012-7/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[High-stakes national politics is, as a rule, a decidedly zero-sum game. When Republicans rise, Democrats decline; when Democrats advance, Republicans recede. But every so often an event transpires that produces a rule-breaking result'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'not just a win-win but a win-win-win, in which both...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama's Strategists Think He'll Win]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/features/barack-obama-2012-6/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[David Plouffe sits in his White House office, just a few steps from the Oval, staring at an oversize map of these United States. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s late afternoon on May 9, two hours after Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s declaration that his evolution on gay marriage has reached its terminus. The president...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's War Against Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/politics/powergrid/obama-romney-war-2012-4/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama has been accused of many sins, but among the most common Republican charges against him is that he is a warmonger'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'though not in the usual sense of the term, of course. Just since the turn of the New Year, conservatives have inveighed against Obama for prosecuting a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This General Election Is Gonna Be Ugly]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/04/time-to-get-ugly-the-general-election-has-begun.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As those familiar with Impolitic are well aware, this space is rarely given over to liturgical musings or Biblical invocations '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' but every so often, your columnist feels compelled to reach for the Old Testament. And though his preferred volume in that tome is and has always been...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rolling the Romney Vice Dice]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/politics/powergrid/romney-running-mate-heilemann-2012-4/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'April is the cruellest month'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' was T.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('‰').';'S. Eliot'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s contention, and soon enough it may prove that rare assertion on which Rick Santorum and Lawrence O'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'Donnell would agree. This Tuesday, if the public polls hold, Mitt Romney will defeat Santorum in the Republican...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Primary Race Is Tearing the GOP Apart]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/features/gop-primary-heilemann-2012-3/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On a biting, brittle mid-February morning 30 miles north of Detroit, Rick Santorum plants his flag in a patch of turf as politically fertile as exists in these United States. For three decades, Macomb County, Michigan, has been both a bellwether and a battleground, as its fabled Reagan...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Looking Good, But Storm Clouds Ahead]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/politics/powergrid/obama-reelection-heilemann-2012-2/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Late last September, the Democratic political strategist Doug Sosnik wrote a six-page memo, with a 28-slide deck of charts and graphs, and sent it to his friends and clients'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a collection of corporate pooh-bahs, heavy-hitting politicos, and miscreant pundits. The dispatching of memos...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Third-Party Rail]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/politics/powergrid/americans-elect-2012-1/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A few hours before the GOP presidential debate in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, I ran into a political tourist roaming the debate site'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a fellow by the name of Kahlil Byrd, who, despite calling himself a Republican, is in every other way the walking, talking antithesis of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has Romney Caught a Break?]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/print/?/news/politics/powergrid/mitt-romney-2012-1/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The first votes in the Republican presidential contest were two weeks from being cast when Mitt Romney arrived in Bedford, New Hampshire, to give a speech with the same title as his campaign slogan: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Believe in America.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' In the fifteen minutes the address consumed, Romney...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gingrich Clear Winner in Iowa]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/12/heilemann-gingrich-triumph-at-first-iowa-debate.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A few hours before last night's big Republican debate, Newt Gingrich paid a visit to his newly opened, and still largely empty, Iowa campaign headquarters just outside Des Moines in Urbandale. The event was haphazard, something of a shambles, but it had an energy notably lacking at those...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2012 = 1968?]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/politics/occupy-wall-street-2011-12/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The post-Zuccotti era of Occupy Wall Street began for Max Berger just after 1 a.m. on November 15, when he learned via text message that a forcible eviction of the park was close at hand. At 26, Berger is a redheaded Reed College alum and professional activist; his employers have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt's Iowa Temptation]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/politics/powergrid/mitt-romney-iowa-2011-11/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney made a trip to Iowa in October, and that in itself was news, for this was just the third time in 2011 that the Republican front-runner had set foot in the state whose caucuses quadrennially kick off the presidential-nomination contest. Romney'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s absence has been duly (and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is This Christie's Moment?]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/politics/powergrid/chris-christie-2011-10/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Almost exactly eight years ago, Hillary Clinton was deliberating, intensely and in secret, over a fateful political decision: Should she launch a late entry into the 2004 presidential race? Much of the Democratic Establishment, from A-list donors and officeholders to activists and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama Is Israel's Best Friend]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/politics/israel-2011-9/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The last time Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu shared each other'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s company, you could say that the encounter did not go well'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'if by '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'not well'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' you mean abysmally. This was on May 20, the day after Obama gave his big speech on the Arab Spring, in which he unleashed a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rick Perry's GOP Shock Treatment]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/politics/powergrid/rick-perry-2011-8/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The entry of Rick Perry into the Republican presidential race has been something like the application of defibrillator paddles to its collective solar plexus'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'bracing and clarifying, exhilarating or terrifying (depending on your point of view), and, most of all, impossible to ignore....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Grown-Up Primary: Huntsman vs. Romney]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/politics/jon-huntsman-mitt-romney-2011-8/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jon Huntsman Jr. sits on the edge of a couch in his new home in Washington, a four-story redbrick manse north of Dupont Circle that is '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'ambassadorial in every detail. The living room is filled with furniture upholstered in yellow chintz and cretonne; the floor is covered with a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wanted: Economic Savior]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/politics/powergrid/tim-geithner-2011-7/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA["You couldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t pay me enough to do that job'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is a refrain often voiced by ordinary folks with respect to the presidency, and at least for those both sane and sober, the sentiment goes double for Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s. But after watching over these past few weeks the appalling...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does Perry Hate D.C. Too Much to Run?]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/politics/powergrid/rick-perry-2011-6/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Given the state of the Republican presidential-nominating contest, in which the party faithful's interest in those on the field is exceeded vastly by their yearning for those hovering on the sidelines, last Tuesday was a fine day'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'or should I say, an even finer day than usual'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will the Obama Spring Last Until 2012?]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/politics/powergrid/barack-obama-osama-bin-laden-2011-5/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Heilemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the fourth day after the decade-long manhunt for Osama bin Laden had come to a bloody and triumphal end, Barack Obama made the trek from Washington to the place where it all began. After being deposited by helicopter in lower Manhattan, Obama took his motorcade to a midtown firehouse...]]></description>
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