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<title><![CDATA[Walter Shapiro - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14516.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Walter Shapiro]]></description><category domain="14516">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[In 40 Years, I've Never Seen Dems Panic Like This]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/183413/democrats-panicking-arent-leaders-anything</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For years, party leaders mocked Republicans for sticking with Trump when it was clear he was unfit for office. Now that Joe Biden is unfit for office, they're silent.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Craziest Convention in American History]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/183009/craziest-convention-american-history</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Think this year's Democratic convention is going to be nuts? 100 years ago, Democrats took 103 ballots'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and more than two weeks'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'to choose a candidate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ten Rules for Understanding the 2024 Elections]]></title>
							<link>https://rollcall.com/2024/06/11/ten-rules-for-understanding-the-2024-elections/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Be wary of polls, don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t overreact and make sure to check your deodorant]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Two Events That Could Save Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/181968/two-events-save-biden</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Polls this far out from the election are notoriously unreliable. But the outcome of Trump's hush money trial and the first presidential debate could help shift public opinion.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Can&rsquo;t Stop Threatening Speaker? Take Away Their TV!]]></title>
							<link>https://rollcall.com/2024/05/06/republicans-threatening-speaker-take-away-their-tv/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Marjorie Taylor Greene is poised to make history this week if she goes forward with her bid to oust Mike Johnson as House speaker.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Party of Reagan? Please.This GOP Is the Appeaser Generation]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/180529/mike-johnson-gop-ukraine-appeaser</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Congress is back (yikes), and Speaker Johnson can force a Ukraine aid vote'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and it would pass. But even Johnson isn't the real appeaser here.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Gaza Won't Cost Biden the Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/179872/gaza-wont-cost-biden-presidency</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Foreign policy rarely swings presidential elections.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Five Ways Biden Can Win in 2024]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/177442/five-ways-biden-can-win-2024</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yes, the polls look bad. But there's plenty of time for the president to turn it around.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Reason Why Biden Shouldn't Drop Out]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/177020/real-reason-biden-shouldnt-drop</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A contested Democratic primary with less than a year before the 2024 election would be a mess.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Can Demonize Mike Johnson, But Should They?]]></title>
							<link>https://rollcall.com/2023/10/31/democrats-can-demonize-johnson-but-should-they-in-2024/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After 16 days of bitter wrangling during the steamy summer of 1924, the exhausted Democrats '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' deeply divided over Prohibition and the Ku Klux Klan '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' nominated little-known former congressman and ambassador John W. Davis for president on the 103rd ballot.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Next GOP VP Nominee Probably Isn't on the Debate Stage]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/175476/next-republican-nominee-vice-president-probably-isnt-debate-stage</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forget the media narrative: Presidential nominees almost never rarely select former rivals for the job.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Nikki Haley Scares the Biden Campaign]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/175317/nikki-haley-2024-campaign-biden-scared</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[She almost certainly won't be the Republican nominee. But she's showing where Biden is vulnerable.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can GOP Be Anything Other Than Party of Trump Toadies?]]></title>
							<link>https://rollcall.com/2023/08/09/the-trials-and-tribulations-of-trumps-capitol-hill-enablers/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Donald Trump heads to trial, his GOP enablers in Congress might finally have to face the music.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nine Ways the 2024 Campaign Could Go Haywire]]></title>
							<link>https://rollcall.com/2023/07/25/nine-ways-the-2024-campaign-could-go-haywire/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One big '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' or even medium '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' event could shake up all we think we know about the 2024 elections.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sotomoyor's Book Scandal Is Banal &amp; Troubling]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/174418/sonia-sotomoyors-book-scandal-banal-troubling</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court justice's buckraking hardly compares to that of her conservative colleagues. But it still says a lot about how much Washington has changed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[House GOP's Impeachment Fever Will Doom Trump in 2024]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/174165/house-republicans-impeachment-fever-will-doom-trump-2024</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The GOP's nutjob squad is going after Biden and a growing list of administration officials. If they keep it up, they can forget about winning back the White House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Can't Hide From the Media Forever]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/174058/biden-cant-hide-media-forever</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Scripted remarks won't cut it anymore. The president needs to open wide up to the press, verbal gaffes be damned.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McCarthy Had His Pockets Picked by Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://rollcall.com/2023/05/31/the-ultimate-no-win-debt-deal-for-mccarthy-house-republicans/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Speaker Kevin McCarthy managed few victories in debt ceiling talks that did little to secure his razor-thin House majority.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Abolish Live TV Audiences in 2024 Campaign]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/172715/trump-cnn-town-hall-abolish-live-tv-audiences-2024</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CNN's shameful town hall was a gift to Trump. Enough is enough.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems, Don't Panic Over 2024! Here's Why]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/172610/democrats-panic-biden-2024-polls</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Problematic polls and New York Times op-eds are giving Biden supporters a heart attack. But the 2024 outlook isn't nearly as gloomy as it seems right now.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[House GOP's NYC Crime Hearing Was a Political Farce]]></title>
							<link>https://rollcall.com/2023/04/18/house-republicans-nyc-violent-crime-hearing-was-a-political-farce/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[House Republicans failed to establish a coherent narrative against New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Politics was their true focus.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden's Ivy League Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/170562/joe-biden-ivy-league-upenn</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For all the posturing as Amtrak Joe, the president has fallen into the same elite trap that has captured our political system.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Evenly Divided Electorate Is Breaking Our Political System]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/169100/democrats-republicans-voters-evenly-divided</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The current level of sustained political balance in Congress is unprecedented.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Overestimates Power of Crime as a Political Issue]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/168116/republicans-crime-winning-issue-evidence</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's one of the oldest moves in the GOP's campaign playbook: When in doubt, blow the racial dog whistle. But is it as effective as Democrats fear?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conventional Wisdom About 2022 Has Been Wrong]]></title>
							<link>https://rollcall.com/2022/09/13/why-the-conventional-wisdom-about-2022-has-been-so-wrong/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[About the only thing more dramatic than the upsurge in Democratic fortunes heading into November has been the stunning Ukrainian military gains in the Kharkiv region.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It Is Far Too Early to Start Freaking Out About 2024]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/167555/democratic-donors-2024-election-biden</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is Biden running? Is Harris ready? The Democratic donor class needs to chill, baby, chill.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Forget FDR. Biden Is a Major President in His Own Right]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/167474/joe-biden-fdr-polls-inflation-reduction-act</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president and media set far too lofty expectations last year that have dragged down his poll numbers among Democrats and distracted from all that he's accomplished.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrat Who Thinks He Can Win Back Missouri]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/167227/missouri-democratic-senate-lucas-kunce-populism</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Lucas Kunce, a candidate in Tuesday's Senate primary, is running an anti-corporate campaign.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[1989-2001: America's Long Lost Weekend]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/166758/america-1989-2001-foreign-policy-lost-weekend</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11, we had relative peace and prosperity. It was an opportunity to salve some festering national wounds. We squandered it completely'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and helped give rise to the crises we're dealing with today.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Are Ensnared in Campaign Messaging Trap]]></title>
							<link>https://rollcall.com/2022/05/17/biden-maga-republicans-meh-slogan/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is a Washington ritual so old that it probably dates back to the era when senators lived in boarding houses and any stray citizen could wander into the White House.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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