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							<title><![CDATA[Sestak Has the Momentum in Fight Against Specter]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/specter_sestak_pennsylvania_senate_primary/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/05/16/joe_sestak_final_rally_pennsylvania_primary</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Madden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MEDIA, Pa. -- To Pennsylvania voters, the backdrop to Joe Sestak's final campaign rally of the state's Democratic Senate campaign Sunday afternoon should look familiar. For the last weeks, it's been popping up more and more often on their TV screens; in 2008, Arlen Specter stood here, on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Kagan Won't Be the Next Harriet Miers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/05/10/elena_kagan_is_not_harriet_miers/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Madden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- At first glance, you might think President Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court is shaping up to be just a replay of the attempt by former President George W. Bush to put Harriet Miers there. Neither of them ever served as judges. And some progressive...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Leads the Dems If They Lose the House?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/05/07/pelosi_democratic_house_leadership_after_november/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Madden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Politico has a story Friday morning pointing out yet another way in which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has consolidated more power than most recent leaders of the chamber: many of the Democrats in plum House committee posts owe their jobs to her.The gist of the piece, by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Plays Coy on Supreme Court Fight -- for Now]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/04/13/republicans_plan_for_supreme_court_fight/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Madden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The Senate spent a lot of time, and a fair amount of energy, last summer on a drama that everyone knew the ending to before it got started: the confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor, who, by the fall, was sitting quite comfortably on the Supreme Court as the first...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Michael Steele Won't Lose His Job]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/michael_steele/index.html?story=/news/feature/2010/04/07/republicans_won_t_fire_michael_steele</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Madden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Don't worry -- we'll still probably have Michael Steele to kick around for a while, even after the last couple of weeks.The buzz has been building on cable news that Steele might be forced out of his job as Republican National Committee chairman any minute. And yes, there...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[5 Lessons Dems Can Learn From Health Care Fight]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/03/26/lessons_learned/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Madden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- OK, so healthcare reform is done. What's next?Looking at the push for President Obama's top domestic policy priority yields some clues for how Democrats and the White House will deal with legislation between now and the November elections. The healthcare bill was pronounced...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Health Legislation Can Move Forward]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/healthcare_reform/index.html?story=/news/feature/2010/02/24/healthcare_summit</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Madden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Just shy of a year ago, President Obama gathered all the major political players on healthcare policy -- from doctors to insurers to hospitals, to business owners and unions, and lawmakers -- in the East Room of the White House to kick off his push to pass a reform bill. It...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republican Party's 2010 Retreads]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/politics/2010_elections/index.html?story=/news/feature/2010/02/24/retreads</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Madden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- For weeks, Democrats have heaped loving attention on Dan Coats, the former Indiana senator-turned-lobbyist, who contemplated moving to North Carolina before he decided to leave northern Virginia and try to get his old job back again. But he's not alone.There's also Rob...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Dems Pass Health Bill Through Reconciliation?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/healthcare_reform/index.html?story=/news/feature/2010/02/17/healthcare_reconciliation</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Madden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The White House is convening a healthcare reform "summit" next week, with Republican and Democratic leaders from the House and Senate. But now that Democrats have lost their 60-vote Senate supermajority, it's already clear that the options for passing reform legislation...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Face Tough 2010, But Aren't Dead Yet]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/01/06/sky_not_falling/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Madden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- At the White House Wednesday, press secretary Robert Gibbs wasn't about to play political prophet."Look, it is hard to look into the crystal ball 11 months from Election Day," Gibbs said. Hard -- and also, if you're a Democrat these days, a little scary. The surprising news...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blame Bush, Not Obama, For Our Problems]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/10/02/blame_obama/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Madden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans know whom to blame for the problems in the world -- no matter when they startedBy Mike MaddenRead more: Politics, News, Mike MaddenSalon composite/AP photoOct.  2, 2009 &#124;  WASHINGTON -- The list of Republican complaints against President Obama is, by now, fairly long. He's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fight for the Public Option]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/25/healthcare/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Madden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A few days into the Senate Finance Committee's work on healthcare reform, a process that threatened, over the summer, to go completely berserk has started to seem a little calmer. Especially for Democrats. For the most part, Republicans on the committee have been completely unhelpful...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Five Right Wing Myths on Health Care]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/08/06/healthcare/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Madden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Five right-wing myths about healthcare reform, and the factsBy Mike MaddenRead more: Republican Party, Politics, News, Healthcare, Barack Obama, Mike MaddenYouTube/Family Research CouncilA screen shot from an ad by the Family Research Council.Aug.  6, 2009 &#124;  WASHINGTON -- Turning...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's Still Hope For the Public Option]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/07/29/healthcare/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Madden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[July 29, 2009 &#124;  WASHINGTON -- To hear the White House tell it, you can glimpse one future model for healthcare delivery at the Cleveland Clinic, which President Obama visited last week as part of his push for healthcare reform legislation. Doctors in the Ohio healthcare company work in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Will Obama's Gay Talk Turn to Action?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/06/30/obama_lgbt/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Madden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president welcomes 300 prominent gays to the White House. But when will his rhetoric translate into action?By Mike MaddenRead more: Democratic Party, Politics, Gay Rights, News, Gay Marriage, Barack Obama, Mike MaddenReuters/Jim YoungPresident Obama arrives to address a reception for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Five Things the Virginia Election Results Don't Mean]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/06/09/virginia/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Madden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tuesday's Democratic gubernatorial primary might seem like a first glimpse at the 2010 election. But it's not.By Mike MaddenRead more: Republican Party, Democratic Party, Bill Clinton, Politics, New Jersey, News, Virginia, Barack Obama, Mike MaddenAP Photo/Steve HelberVirginia Democratic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Did Democrats Get So Scared of Deficits?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/04/06/deficits/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Madden</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Hearing Turns Into Group Hug]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/01/14/clinton/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Big 3 Might Get It This Time]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/12/05/big_three/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Madden</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[So What's in This for Hillary?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/12/02/hillary_clinton/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Madden</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Obama President Yet?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/11/26/obama/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Madden</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Barack Obama, Honeymoon Killer?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/11/24/obama/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Come Back, Joe. All is Forgiven]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/11/19/lieberman/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Madden</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Debt to Howard Dean]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/11/12/dean/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Madden</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Which John McCain Will Show Up to Debate?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/15/debate_preview/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Going for Broke in Pennsylvania]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/09/philly/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Latino Voters Push Obama Over the Top?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/08/26/latino_vote/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Purpose-Driven Gamble]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/08/17/saddleback/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Jewish Votes Cost Obama the White House?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/05/19/jewish_voters/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Madden</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama, Working-Class Hero?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/03/31/obama/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Madden</author>
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