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<title><![CDATA[John Dickerson - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14584.xml</link><description><![CDATA[John Dickerson]]></description><category domain="14584">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Harry Truman: The Patron Saint of Stuck Presidencies]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-patron-saint-of-stuck-presidencies/ar-AAUsLZ8</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What Joe Biden can learn from Harry Truman]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Brief History of Presidential-Candidacy Announcements]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/brief-history-presidential-candidacy-announcements/582973/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The speeches present the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s condition as a puzzle that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s missing one piece, which the candidate can supply.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Trump's Hollow Call For Unity]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/trumps-hollow-call-unity-state-union/582046/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A president who disdains acting presidential is unlikely to achieve much by relying on convention.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Hardest Job in the World]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/05/a-broken-office/556883/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump often appears to be a president in rebellion against his office. A president, we have come to expect, hastens to the scene of a natural disaster to comfort the afflicted. After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, President Trump arrived tardily and behaved unseriously,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[All the Presidents' Dirty Tricks]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/all-the-presidents-dirty-tricks/533910/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president tweeted Monday: "Most politicians would have gone to a meeting like the one Don Jr attended in order to get info on an opponent. That's politics!" This was a shortened version of the answer the president gave during his press conference with the French President last week....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Andrew Jackson &amp; Donald Trump, Cut From the Same Cloth?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/whistlestop/2016/08/andrew_jackson_and_donald_trump_cut_from_the_same_cloth.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Slate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s podcast about presidential campaign history digs into the similarities between the people'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s candidate Andrew Jackson and today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Republican candidate Donald Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump Is Staying on Top for Now]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/12/donald_trump_won_the_cnn_debate_in_las_vegas.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump won the last GOP debate of 2015 because he was more Trump than ever'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s working well for him. In previous debates, the GOP front-runner has seemed to fade during policy discussions. Or his blunt one-size-fits-all answers have seemed insufficient by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ted Cruz's Wise Strategy of Restraint]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/12/ted_cruz_and_donald_trump_s_coming_showdown_the_texas_senator_has_a_smart.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sen. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump appear on the cusp of a more frank and open exchange of views. The two are at the top of the GOP polls, and there are new si]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden's Big Question]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/10/joe_biden_needs_to_answer_this_question_if_he_s_going_to_run_for_president.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden is expected to announce whether he is running for president any day now. If he does decide to jump in the race, there will be one critical question for which he doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t quite have an answer: Why are you running? Right now, there are many reasons and no reason at all: He...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John Boehner's Final Days]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/09/john_boehner_resigned_after_the_pope_s_visit_there_was_nothing_left_for.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Arizona Rep. Matt Salmon met with Speaker John Boehner on Thursday, Salmon knew something was different. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I thought something was up,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' said Salmon who, along with other conservatives bucking Boehner, met with the House speaker for an hour Thursday evening. They were there...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Joe Biden]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/09/stephen_colbert_s_emotional_interview_with_joe_biden_the_vice_president.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the father of a son, I found it hard to watch Vice President Joe Biden talk about his son with Stephen Colbert. Biden talked about whether he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s emotionally ready to commit to a campaign after losing his son Beau in May. He told the story of the unexpected grief that ambushed him...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden's Big Decision Draws Near]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/08/joe_biden_s_emotional_appeal_and_authenticity_won_t_win_the_white_house.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Any discussion about whether Vice President Joe Biden should run for president gets deep pretty fast. Any talk about ambition, a life'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s purpose, and the end of a career must take into account of all the woe Biden has had to face in his life.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Fighter Takes Center Stage]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/06/hillary_clinton_s_roosevelt_island_speech_the_democratic_frontrunner_holds.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s campaign held a grand opening on Roosevelt Island on Saturday. She reiterated that she wants to be a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'people'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s champion,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' fighting to rebalance an economy that has been tilted toward the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'billionaires and corporations.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' She aligned herself...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rand Paul's Worst Enemy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/06/rand_paul_s_outrageous_claim_hurt_his_cause_the_kentucky_senator_could_force.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What if Sen. Rand Paul is forcing the most substantive debate of the Republican nominating contest so far and killing it at the same time?On Sunday night, Paul took to the Senate floor to continue his fight against the government'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s bulk collection of metadata.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's Darwinian Debate Struggle]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/05/gop_presidential_candidates_will_fight_to_make_the_primary_debate_stage.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1996, Alan Keyes, who sought the Republican presidential nomination, was barred from participating in a primary debate held by a South Carolina business council. So were Sen. Dick Lugar, Rep. Robert K. Dornan, and Morry Taylor, because all of them were barely registering in the polls....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton, Blumenthal and Protective Bubbles]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/05/hillary_clinton_sidney_blumenthal_and_protective_bubbles_why_the_democratic.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton spoke recently on bubbles and public life. Asked about emails sent by her longtime confidant and Clinton Foundation employee Sidney Blumenthal, the candidate said that she communicated with old friends to keep balance as Secretary of State.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Bush and Rubio Keep Stumbling Over Iraq]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/05/marco_rubio_stumbles_on_iraq_war_questions_why_are_republicans_having_a.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republican presidential candidates are having trouble answering hypothetical questions about what they would have done in Iraq. First Jeb Bush stumbled last week when asked, knowing what we know now, if he would have launched the same war his brother did. Then on Sunday, Sen. Marco Rubio...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Bernie Sanders Running Helps Clinton]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/04/bernie_sanders_running_for_president_helps_hillary_clinton_the_vermont_senator.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When candidates are confronted by ideological opposition from within their own party, they face two options: They can fight it or embrace it. In 1952 Dwight Eisenhower and Robert Taft fought. In 1980 Jimmy Carter and Edward Kennedy fought. In 2014 Republican incumbents fearful of Tea...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Hillary Clinton Has Going for Her]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/04/hillary_clinton_s_first_campaign_event_in_iowa_the_democratic_front_runner.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s first campaign event as a declared candidate went smoothly and was full of contradictions. Held in a working garage where students at a community college learn to fix cars, it was a venue for a jumpsuit, not a pantsuit.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Ted Cruz Play Well With Others?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/03/ted_cruz_says_he_is_no_community_organizer_what_executive_skills_does_he.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Texas senator'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s biggest problem is that he is known more for causing disorder than genuine accomplishments.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's Iowa Stampede]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/03/iowa_and_the_republican_party_all_of_the_gop_s_presidential_candidates_are.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chris Christie Attacks the Media and Jeb Bush]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/02/chris_christie_attacks_the_media_and_jeb_bush_the_new_jersey_governor_address.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two years ago Chris Christie wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t invited to address the Conservative Political Action Conference. The New Jersey governor was considered too moderate and a member of the Republican establishment. This year he addressed the gathering of conservative activists and raised his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New World Order: Jeb's Foreign Policy Vision]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/02/jeb_bush_s_foreign_policy_speech_the_republican_candidate_sounded_confident.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If there were questions about whether Jeb Bush is like his brother, he dispelled some of them on Wednesday at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. In November 1999, candidate George Bush scored only 25 percent when a Boston television political reporter gave him a pop quiz on world...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Scott Walker Won Over Iowa]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/01/scott_walker_performs_well_at_iowa_freedom_summit_the_wisconsin_governor.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Before the Iowa Freedom Summit on Saturday, one Republican activist summed up Gov. Scott Walker'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s challenge this way: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'He doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t make the flashbulbs go off.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' But at the end of the marathon day of speeches before conservatives, the Wisconsin governor emerged as the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why a Crowded Field Helps Rand Paul]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/01/rand_paul_campaigns_in_new_hampshire_the_kentucky_senator_welcomes_a_big.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MANCHESTER, New Hampshire'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Rand Paul loves the free market, and in a one-day five-stop New Hampshire tour, the Kentucky senator dispensed his praise for it like water from an aspergillum. At Murphy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Diner, when the morning hour matched the temperature on the street, he said the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Everybody Loves Liz]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/01/elizabeth_warren_does_well_in_peter_hart_focus_group_voters_not_excited.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When 12 voters gathered in Aurora, Colorado, for a political focus group on Thursday night, it wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t surprising to hear them compete to see who could bash politicians more. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'If we got rid of every member of Congress and elected new people tomorrow who had no experience, I...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Six Degrees of Jonathan Gruber]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/11/republican_anger_over_jonathan_gruber_s_obamacare_comments_is_justified.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If only Halloween hadn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t passed, someone could go as MIT'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Jonathan Gruber. He is the economist most likely to get people in Washington to run out of a room. At the moment he is a problem for the Obama administration and Democrats, though he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s spooked Republicans before,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Governors Matter Most for the Republican Brand]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/11/republican_governors_races_on_election_day_the_gubernatorial_contests_will.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the last several years, as the GOP brand in Washington has remained weak, Republican governors have tried to distance themselves from their Washington cousins. The governors were out in the states making decisions that meant something to their constituents while the Beltway...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What October's Attacks Tell Us About the Future]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/10/medicare_and_social_security_reform_is_toxic_in_midterm_elections_republicans.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Landrieu Pull Off Another Louisiana Miracle?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/10/mary_landrieu_tough_race_against_bill_cassidy_can_the_democratic_senator.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Dickerson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BATON ROUGE, Louisiana'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Imagine paying insurance on a beach house and then canceling the policy a couple months before hurricane season. That is Sen. Mary Landrieu's election-eve message, both figuratively and literally. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Who will be here for us if there is another...]]></description>
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