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							<title><![CDATA[Why Less Competition Is Hurtful to Hillary]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Kohut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is increasingly clear that Hillary Clinton will have to overcome a number of serious voter concerns about her to win the presidency. These challenges have been complicated by the unprecedented position in modern times of not having a real challenger from within her own party.
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							<title><![CDATA[Would Iran Deal Imperil Jews' Loyalty to Democratic Party?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/04/22/will_iran_deal_imperil_jews_loyalty_to_democratic_party_126333.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Kohut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If nothing else, the coming political battle between President Obama and the Republican-controlled Congress over the potential Iran nuclear deal underscores one of the biggest anomalies in American politics. Republicans have become much stronger backers of Israel than Democrats over the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are We Writing Off President Obama Too Soon?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/12/are-we-writing-off-obama-too-soon-113509.html#.VIrq9SvF-k4</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Kohut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama may have been assigned too much blame for the Democratic Party&rsquo;s losses&mdash;and he&rsquo;s actually more popular than we think he is. Fewer voters in 2014 than in 2010 said he was a factor in their Congressional vote (45 percent vs. 38 percent) and specifically...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Not the Year of the Elephant]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/09/maybe-2014-wont-be-the-year-of-the-gop-after-all-111265.html?ml=m_b2_1#.VCWDmfldUxK</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Kohut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By this point in the campaign season, the projected outcome of the midterm elections has been hashed and rehashed and even inspired some wonk-on-wonk fights along the way. The conventional wisdom is that 2014 is a Republican year&mdash;the GOP will keep the House and may well win the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trouble w/Attacking Obama's Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/04/is-attacking-obamas-foreign-policy-a-winning-strategy-106154.html?ml=m_t2_2h#.U2DOwvldWk4</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Kohut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama wants you to know that he&rsquo;s doing his best on foreign policy. In striking comments Monday, he complained that his critics&mdash;mainly on the right&mdash;have got it all wrong when they say he&rsquo;s a weak leader who has diminished America&rsquo;s global...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Demographics Behind Dems' 2014 Troubles]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303779504579467401487094782</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Kohut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Early national polling is supporting the prevailing view in Washington that Democrats are in trouble in the 2014 midterm elections. While Democrats are more popular than the GOP among the general public, the party faces a number of challenges in November.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are the Democrats Getting Too Liberal?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/are-the-democrats-getting-too-liberal/2014/02/28/c0d42d7c-8d26-11e3-95dd-36ff657a4dae_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Kohut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The recent polarization of American politics has been far more obvious on the right than the left. The emergence of the tea party movement and its influence in Congress has brought to the fore political values that are more conservative than those of the average voter.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Is in Better Shape Than You Think]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303763804579181512436325236</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Kohut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tucked away in recent polls&#194;&#151;which have documented the extraordinary anger directed at the Republican Party during the shutdown crisis&#194;&#151;are measures of clear disappointment with the Democratic Party. The disappointment is substantial, and it raises big questions about the 2014 midterms.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Still Popular on the World Stage]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/09/03/andrew-kohut-on-obama-and-world-popularity/2755389/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Kohut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As President Obama heads to the G20 summit in St. Petersburg this week he remains the most popular world leader. Ordinary citizens in most countries, with some notable exceptions, say they have confidence in him to do the right thing in world affairs and many generally approve of his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Good News About Race and Voting]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323716304578483174116481426.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Kohut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the next several weeks the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of the requirement that several states, mostly in the South, get "pre-clearance" from the Justice Department before they make any changes to their election laws. The requirement was part of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Are Estranged from America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-numbers-prove-it-the-republican-party-is-estranged-from-america/2013/03/22/3050734c-900a-11e2-9abd-e4c5c9dc5e90_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Kohut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In my decades of polling, I recall only one moment when a party had been driven as far from the center as the Republican Party has been today. The outsize influence of hard-line elements in the party base is doing to the GOP what supporters of Gene McCarthy and George McGovern did to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Misreading Election 2012]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323894704578113231375465160.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Kohut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Postelection talk of "lessons learned" is often exaggerated and misleading, and so it is in 2012. A week after President Obama won re-election, two themes are dominant. First, that Mr. Obama kept his job because key elements of his base&mdash;notably young people, African-Americans,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Race Dead Even; Romney Maintains Turnout Edge]]></title>
							<link>http://www.people-press.org/2012/10/29/presidential-race-dead-even-romney-maintains-turnout-edge/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Kohut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the presidential campaign enters its final week, Barack Obama has failed to regain much of the support he lost in the days following the first presidential debate and the race is now even among likely voters: 47% favor Obama while an identical percentage supports Mitt Romney.The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Economy, Health Care &amp; Gates Contibute to Obama's Slide]]></title>
							<link>http://people-press.org/report/532/obamas-ratings-slide</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Election Day is Easy to Figure Out]]></title>
							<link>http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/the-element-of-surprise/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Iraq Challenge]]></title>
							<link>http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/the-iraq-challenge/index.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Kohut</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Do Voters Want a More Isolationist Foreign Policy?]]></title>
							<link>http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/what-foreign-policy-agenda/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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