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<title><![CDATA[Howard Fineman - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14610.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Howard Fineman]]></description><category domain="14610">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Mitch McConnell&rsquo;s Choice]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/02/29/mitch_mcconnells_choice_150570.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve always thought Republican Senate Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who on Wednesday announced his retirement from Senate leadership, took the wrong lesson from the polio he had as a boy growing up in Louisville.
After his mother nursed him back to health,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Lays Waste to America&rsquo;s Birthplace]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/05/15/trump_lays_waste_to_americas_birthplace_147600.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'one nation under God'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' to which we pledge allegiance was born in Philadelphia'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Old State House. The expansion of that nation to the continent was secured by American control of the Forks of the Ohio at Fort Pitt.
Now the wrecking ball called Donald Trump is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Long Underestimated, Biden Comes Into His Own]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/04/29/biden_is_his_own_man_now_145676.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America learned Wednesday night, if it hadn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t before, not to underestimate Joe Biden. Yes, he narrowly won the states needed for victory in November. Yes, his party has the barest of congressional majorities. Yes, he presides over a country deeply divided on culture and politics....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Requiem for the Capitol]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/01/19/requiem_for_the_capitol_145067.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We would picnic on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol, my friends and I. Technically it wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t allowed, but if you didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t play touch football or whip a Frisbee around -- if you were discreet about the blanket and food -- you could Renoir away the day on the lush, tree-shaded lawn...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe the Father in a Pittsburgh Parking Lot]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/11/03/joe_the_father_in_a_pittsburgh_parking_lot_144595.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[PITTSBUGH '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' I drove over the Alleghenies from Washington to my western Pennsylvania hometown Monday night to see Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s final rally of the campaign, in a parking lot next to the Steelers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' football stadium, Heinz Field.
In the simplest sense, I wanted to lay eyes on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bernie Lost, But COVID-19 Made His Point]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/08/bernie_lost_but_covid-19_made_his_point_142894.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At real and needless risk to their lives, Democrats who voted in person in Wisconsin on Tuesday sent a message to Sen. Bernie Sanders: get out of the race. At noon on Wednesday, he did just that.
The Wisconsin primary was a scary event that former Vice President Joe Biden quietly '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where Is Our Coronavirus Wartime President?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/16/where_is_our_coronavirus_wartime_president_142670.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We have been blessed as Americans with great leadership in wartime. As messy as democracy is (and perhaps even because it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s messy), we have come to expect the right president to rise at the right time to lead us. For the most part this has happened. We have been graced with leaders...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Luck Finally Has Changed. Will It Hold?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/11/bidens_luck_finally_has_changed_will_it_hold_142628.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve known and covered Joe Biden since 1987 and written many stories about him. He appears at length in my book about American politics. In the fall of 2018, he came to lecture in the seminar I was teaching at the University of Pennsylvania.
'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'You'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re in the Ivy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Short, Unhappy Campaign of Mike Bloomberg]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/04/the_short_unhappy_campaign_of_mike_bloomberg_142564.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let us set aside the snark when dissecting the Broadway flop called the Mike Bloomberg campaign. He deserves credit, not derision, for the patriotic belief that his country needed him. When he entered the race last November, the campaign of the Democratic Party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presumptive...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democratic Race in Four Questions]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/02/the_democratic_race_in_four_questions_142543.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Paul Tully was a burly, chain-smoking, hard-drinking Irishman from Long Island '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' and one of the best presidential campaign operatives I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve ever met. He had been a football lineman at Yale, gotten a law degree at Penn and been a labor organizer in Philly. He was part dock...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Like Trump, Bernie Isn't Backing Down]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/02/25/like_trump_bernie_isnt_backing_down_142484.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is communism to Bernie Sanders what pussy-grabbing was to Donald Trump?
Crudely put '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' for this is an age of crudity, if nothing else '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' that is the question as the Democratic parade stumbles into another debate tonight, this one in South Carolina.
You may remember October of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[After New Hampshire, Bloomberg Machine Sees an Open Road]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/02/12/after_new_hampshire_bloomberg_machine_sees_an_open_road.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MANCHESTER, N.H. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' The three top finishers in the Democratic primary here Tuesday had every right to give their victory speeches, and they did, but in New York City and across the vast and not-yet-fully-visible national machine that is Mike Bloomberg's well-funded campaign, the mood...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bloomberg Isn't on N.H. Ballot, But Is on Dem Voters' Minds]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/02/10/bloomberg_isnt_on_nh_ballot_but_is_on_dem_voters_minds.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MANCHESTER, N.H. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' Jaye Duffy is a smart, well-connected local Democrat who is on a first-name basis with state judges, politicians, business leaders, and newspaper editors -- most of whom she'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s known since childhood.
She is desperate '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' as is every Democrat I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pete Is a Serious Young Man. In N.H., it May Be Enough]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/02/07/pete_is_a_serious_young_man_in_nh_it_may_be_enough.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MERRIMACK, N.H. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' Chris and Bill Mauser, retired seniors who live in this town a few miles from Manchester, drove to the American Legion post here yesterday to eyeball Pete Buttigieg up close and personal, to poke him, as it were, like a vegetable in a bin on sale at a roadside farm...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President's Job Is to Be the Adult in the Room]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/02/05/presidents_job_is_to_be_the_adult_in_the_room__142323.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you know U.S. history, the view from the press gallery of the State of the Union Tuesday night was shocking and sad. The speech is unavoidably partisan -- but also, by tradition, a healing ritual of unity for The American Family. Instead, I found myself peering down at a cross between...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's 'Groundhog Day' for the Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/02/04/its_groundhog_day_for_the_democrats_142312.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was after midnight in Miami in July of 1972. The Democratic National Convention was a mess. Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota had won the nomination to face the incumbent president, Richard Nixon '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' a daunting task, as everyone knew. McGovern had ridden in on the strength of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2020 Campaign Officially Begins -- in Family Court]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/01/24/2020_campaign_officially_begins__in_family_court.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' Late into the first night the proceedings got nasty and heated. The judge gently reminded: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Remember where you are.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Next day, the parties slumped in their chairs as accusations of bad faith and abusive behavior droned on: one side was led by a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I Grew Up in Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/opinion/pittsburgh-squirrel-hill-shooting-synagogue.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The bloodshed in the Tree of Life synagogue is a sign that hatred of The Other is poisoning our public life.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Method to the Moron's Madness]]></title>
							<link>https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-method-madness_us_59e125d7e4b03a7be580b923?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Washington reacts with alarm to his inflammatory tweets, and lately has made a parlor game out of chronicling his outbursts of anger, dismay and ignorance, as news organizations offer a cascade of vivid in-the-room portrayals of an out-of-control boy king. Democrats hope against hope...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Humiliates Everyone, Including John McCain]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-mccain-donald-trump-senate-health-care_us_5977e2bae4b0a8a40e8399df?tml&amp;ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At his Arizona ranch - a verdant, canyon-bottom spread near Sedona, watered by a river in an otherwise arid, red-rock landscape -'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' John McCain'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' kept a bottle of vodka in the freezer of the fridge. With a fly boy flourish (he was a top gun long before '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Top Gun'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'), he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Health Care Debate Will Never End]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/health-care-clash-republicans-democrats_us_590ba685e4b0e7021e9629f1?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats and Republicans are locked in battle over values, not numbers.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why &quot;Trump Administration&quot; Is an Oxymoron]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-trump-administration-is-an-oxymoron_us_58cb1996e4b00705db4dd6ae?2m7&amp;</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The White House is as stately as ever, but there aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t enough friends outside the (porous) iron fence to make the inhabitants as comfortable as they should be in the first months of a new regime. Rather, Trump is under siege from pretty much all sides. Federal courts again are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The White House Is Already in Flames]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-michael-flynn-flames_us_58a29e1ee4b0ab2d2b187775?5povn5ulgmu6jemi</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What did the president know and when did he know it?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[James Comey Just Unmasked Himself]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/james-comey-political_us_58167b1ee4b064e1b4b31cf7</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You have to be extremely political here in the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s capital if you want to acquire a reputation for being nonpolitical. James Comey, as shrewd and politically attuned a player as this city has seen, had accomplished that feat -'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' until it all fell apart on Friday. Seeking to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Was Terrible. But Will It Matter?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-worst-debate_us_57e9e5fce4b024a52d2a3b61</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve been traveling to presidential debates since 1988, and the one I just saw here at Hofstra University was historic.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Republican nominee Donald Trump turned in the worst -'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and I mean worst -'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' debate performance in modern times. It was so bad that in a normal year, it would...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Hillary Clinton Lost: A Premature Obit]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the high, crenelated ramparts of Castle Clinton, a chill breeze is stirring - a faint but gnawing sense that the White Walkers are coming, wearing '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' baseball caps on their skinless noggins.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' If Donald Trump does sack the fortress, no one who lost...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Top Trump Advisor: 'This Is Not A Hard Race']]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-paul-manafort-general-election_us_574619eee4b0dacf7ad3e201?vqp8pvi=</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Paul Manafort looks the part of a chairman: 67, well-coiffed, bespoke-suited and appropriately Rolexed. In the world of Donald Trump, that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s his title: campaign chairman and chief strategist.And as chairmen do,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Manafort assured us that his enterprise will be crowned with success:...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[7 Reasons Why Trump Could Win In November]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, lives along so many fault lines of American politics that he is especially sensitive to Trump tremors, which he fears could become an earthquake by November.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m concerned,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he said. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Beating Donald Trump won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hey Democrats: Be Careful What You Wish For]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-clinton-establishment_us_57203686e4b0b49df6a9a6d0?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000090</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The thing to realize is this: The human wrecking ball called Donald Trump is swinging in an ever-wider arc.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The next edifice in his destructive path is the Clinton family, which has been a core symbol and central structure of the Democratic Party and Washington as a whole since 1992.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Election Is 1968 All Over Again]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/1968-2016-election-parallels_us_56e5fb49e4b0b25c91824dce?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000090</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Fineman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was the spring of a presidential election year, but there was no sense of hope and renewal in the land.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Instead, the United States was in the grip of tribalism and seething fear. Voters were energized by anger and resentment. The media ran red with violent language; surging crowds,...]]></description>
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