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<title><![CDATA[Thomas Schaller - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14484.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Thomas Schaller]]></description><category domain="14484">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[55-45 Politics in a 50-50 Country]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/republican-structural-advantage</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the 25th anniversary issue of this magazine, Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson offered an explanation of what they call the &ldquo;no-cost extremism&rdquo; of current Republican politics. How does the GOP continue to move rightward and still win, they ask, despite the American...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Adapting to a Politically Divided Nation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-schaller-0319-20140318,0,2931743.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2000, Texas Gov. George W. Bush ran for president as a "uniter, not a divider." Eight years later, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama proclaimed he wasn't running to be president of "blue America" or "red America" but the entire United States of America.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Exposing the Two Faces of &quot;Moderate Mitt&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2012/10/16/obama_has_to_call_out_mitts_flip_flops/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With a mix of hubris and rhetorical gymnastics, Republicans Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are trying to recast themselves in the final weeks of the 2012 presidential campaign as a palatable, centrist tandem. The Romney-Ryan reboot is fully underway.In the first presidential debate, Romney...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's '12 Strategy Will Mirror Bush's in '04]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2012/05/11/using_bushs_playbook/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama's presidency was born from nothing so much as his repudiation of George W. Bush's administration "&#194;&#148; its policies and politics, its style and tone. One of Obama's most effective 2008 stump speech refrains was his promise to end the era of "Scooter Libby justice, "Brownie'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Va. Emerges as a Bellwether]]></title>
							<link>http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/commentary/2010/dec/12/tdcomm01-virginia-emerges-as-a-bellwether-ar-708594/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sandwiched between the Democrats' disappointing 2002 election cycle  and their 2010 "shellacking," the party made significant gains during  the three mid-decade intervening elections of 2004, 2006 and 2008. And  nowhere were the party's gains more impressive than in four states:...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Far Cry From Socialism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-schaller-socialism-20100518,0,454344,full.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The word "socialism" has been bandied around by all sorts of critics of the current government. Whether emanating from the lips of elite politicians or grass-roots activists, the word stirs passions, even outrage.I'm not certain how those worried about American "socialism" define the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Victory Over Fear and Falsehoods]]></title>
							<link>http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.schaller0323,0,4235903.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[45&#194;&#176; FMarch 23, 2010                                                        Although I suspect President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats will receive a boost in their poll numbers for their advocacy of health care, they will probably suffer net losses  this November. Call...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Will Democrats Fare in the 2010 Elections?]]></title>
							<link>http://salon.com/news/feature/2010/01/12/salon_roundtable/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tom Schaller: Welcome to Salon Conversations.In the wake of the back-to-back-to-back announced retirements of Sens. Byron Dorgan and Chris Dodd, and Gov. Bill Ritter of Colorado -- all Democrats -- we've asked some of the country's top electoral analysts to talk about what the political...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Decade of Disappointments Comes to End]]></title>
							<link>http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.schaller22dec22,0,7985332.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[17&#194;&#176; FDecember 22, 2009                                                        As the 1990s drew to a close, a friend and former student of mine with a shrewd marketing sense inquired into copyrighting "the Naughties" as a term referring to this decade.You can understand his objective -...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are the Tea Partiers Good or Bad for the GOP?]]></title>
							<link>http://salon.com/news/politics/republican_party/index.html?story=/news/feature/2009/10/29/conservative_base_roundtable</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2009, the energized right-wing base of the Republican Party transformed American politics. Nationwide protests against Barack Obama and his political agenda have forced establishment conservatives and the Republican Party power structure to make a strategic decision about whether...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Went Wrong on Health Care?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/24/town_halls/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barring a major public groundswell or miraculous reversal in Congress, Barack Obama's healthcare reform package will not include the provision that matters most to the Democratic base, the so-called public option. Why has a president who entered the White House with the second-biggest...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Bad Off is the Republican Party?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/02/02/republicans/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[2010: Can Democrats Defend Their Gains?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/12/08/2010/print.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Center Right Nation Leans to the Left]]></title>
							<link>http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.schaller02dec02,0,6805680.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the West Will Be Won]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/how_the_west_will_be_won.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the 1930s, Colorado officials realized they were facing a long-term water problem because the Continental Divide channels about 80 percent of rain and snowmelt westward toward neighboring states and, ultimately, the Pacific Ocean. But most of the population of the state lives east of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton, Backers Should Put a Stop to Party Disunity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/clinton_backers_should_put_a_s.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's August. The Democratic National Convention starts in two weeks, and the general election is less than 100 days away. The presumptive nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, is stuck in a curiously tight contest with Republican Sen. John McCain, the opponent Mr. Obama needs to be focusing on.Yet...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Unlike Any Politician, Black or White]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/07/obama_unlike_any_politician_bl.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democratic Sen. Barack Obama is the first nonwhite candidate in U.S. history to win a major-party presidential nomination. That fact alone makes him a tradition-breaking, political pioneer.Much less discussed is that Mr. Obama is an atypical, nontraditional African-American politician,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Do the Math: Obama Won't Win the South]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/opinion/01schaller.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Swing States of 2008]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/06/24/270_roundtable/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside Obama's Mountain-States Strategy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/05/28/expertinent-the-southwest-passage.aspx</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama: Our Next Great Export]]></title>
							<link>http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.schaller21may21,0,5752532.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Clinton the Last to Know It's Over?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=is_clinton_the_last_to_know_its_over</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Easing Clinton Out the Door]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/04/easing_clinton_out_the_door.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can McCain Hold the Southwest?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=southwest_passage</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Electability Debate Is Unpersuasive]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/03/17/swing_states/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Schaller</author>
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