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<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Weisman - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14636.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jonathan Weisman]]></description><category domain="14636">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[California May Hold Key to Control of House in 2024]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/03/03/who-will-win-control-of-the-house-in-2024-california-may-hold-the-key/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Democrats look to wrest control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November, their fight will fully begin with]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Faces Headwinds, But Dems Optimistic]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/map-issues-incumbency-favoring-democrats-175453885.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nearly 7 in 10 Americans believe their country is on a wrong track. The incumbent president will be 81 on Election Day 2024. More than half of the voters in his own party don't want him to run for reelection. Yet as President Joe Biden embarks on his campaign for a second term,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chicago Mayor's Race a Blueprint for Dems on Crime?]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-mayor-race-could-blueprint-175308131.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The mayoral victory on Tuesday of Brandon Johnson, a once little-known progressive and former teacher, over a more moderate veteran of this city's burly political realm injected confidence in the Democratic Party's most liberal wing '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and may have pointed a way forward for the party...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Dems' SOS Candidate Keeps His Options Open]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/03/03/the-democrats-sos-candidate-keeps-his-options-open/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois sat comfortably in an office board room high above the Loop on Monday and halfheartedly batted away the notion that he was preparing a run for the White House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Fields Diverse Group of Midterm Candidates]]></title>
							<link>https://buffalonews.com/dozens-of-midterm-candidates-of-color-give-house-republicans-a-path-to-diversity/article_3bd4f364-5984-55f7-ac50-a7c00bd9962f.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' House Republicans are fielding a slate of 67 Black, Latino, Asian or Native American candidates on the ballot in November, by the party's count, raising an opportunity to change the face of a House GOP conference that now has only a dozen members of color.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Redoubles Efforts to Tie Dems to High Crime Rates]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2022/09/27/g-o-p-redoubles-efforts-to-tie-democrats-to-high-crime-rates/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Pennsylvania, Republicans are'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' attacking'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' John Fetterman, the Democratic Senate candidate, as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'dangerously liberal on crime.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dem Ad Buy Shows Widening Battle for House Control]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/us/politics/house-democrats-midterms-advertising.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democrats' House Majority PAC is spending nearly $102 million to reserve advertising time in 51 media markets, staking out a broad battlefield for the coming midterm elections.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Crisis' Is GOP Message as Outrage Machine Ramps Up]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/us/politics/house-republicans-outrage.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With next year's midterm elections seen as a referendum on Democratic rule, Republicans are seeking to create a sense of instability and overreach, diverting focus from their own divisions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Shrug at Warnings of Democracy in Peril]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/us/politics/democracy-in-peril.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As G.O.P. legislatures move to curtail voting rules, congressional Democrats say authoritarianism looms, but Republicans dismiss the concerns as politics as usual.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP to Make 2016 a Referendum on Health Law]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/us/as-supreme-court-weighs-health-law-gop-plans-to-replace-it.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' The legal campaign to destroy President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s health care law may be nearing its conclusion, but as the Supreme Court deliberates over the law'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s fate, the search for a replacement by Republican lawmakers is finally gaining momentum.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Enrollment Numbers Lift Dem Hopes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/us/health-enrollment-numbers-lift-democratic-hopes.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' After months of pummeling by Republicans and with a grim election season approaching, Democrats on Tuesday had a rare bright day. President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s announcement that the new health care plan had enrolled 7.1 million Americans coincided with the release by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Has Democrats Feeling Exposed]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/us/politics/in-fracas-on-health-coverage-some-democrats-feel-exposed.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republican Challenges Stem From Within]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/us/politics/in-2014-primaries-challenges-for-gop-stem-from-divides-within.html?ref=politics&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Art Halvorson makes for an unlikely Republican primary challenger to a six-term incumbent like Representative Bill Shuster. He is a newcomer to this quiet corner of south-central Pennsylvania who retired here after a long Coast Guard career.But in the throw-out-the-bums anger percolating...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Health Law's Troubled Start Has Dems Anxious]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/01/us/politics/troubled-start-for-health-law-has-democrats-feeling-anxious.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Already under fierce attack from Republicans over the new health care law, President Obama now faces broad and mounting Democratic concerns that the troubled start of the insurance program will cut into the political benefit the party received from the government shutdown and cost...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Push to Delay Individual Mandate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/us/politics/house-gop-pushes-delay-on-individual-mandate-in-health-law.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0&amp;gwh=4AD938D4D7EE4A6CFE85967BC7C5E6EC</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';' House Republican leaders on Tuesday seized on the Obama administration'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s one-year delay of a mandate for larger employers to offer health insurance or face penalties, demanding the same postponement for the mandate on individual insurance purchases and promising a series...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Treasury Dept Knew of IRS Inquiry in 2012]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/18/us/politics/irs-scandal-congressional-hearings.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' The Treasury Department'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s inspector general told senior Treasury officials in June 2012 he was investigating allegations that the Internal Revenue Service had targeted conservative groups, disclosing for the first time on Friday that Obama administration officials...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Budget Fight Signals Shift in GOP Focus]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/25/us/politics/democrats-and-republicans-miscalculate-on-automatic-cuts.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - With Congress unlikely to stop deep automatic spending cuts that will strike hard at the military, the fiscal stalemate is highlighting a significant shift in the Republican Party: lawmakers most keenly dedicated to shrinking the size of government are now more dominant than...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can This Man Help Dems Hold the Senate?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/us/politics/strategist-returns-for-democrats-2014-senate-battles.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';' After two grueling election cycles, Guy Cecil, the brains behind the Democrats'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';' improbable Senate showings in 2010 and 2012, was expected to set aside his political combat boots for tasseled loafers and a sinecure somewhere in this city that pays handsomely for success.Mr....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Senate OKs Deal Raising Taxes on Affluent]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/us/politics/senate-tax-deal-fiscal-cliff.html?hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' The Senate, in a pre-dawn vote two hours after the deadline passed to avert automatic tax increases, overwhelmingly approved legislation on Tuesday that would allow tax rates to rise only on affluent Americans while temporarily suspending sweeping, across-the-board...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Boehner Cancels Tax Vote in Face of GOP Revolt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/21/us/politics/house-moves-toward-vote-on-boehners-backup-plan.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Speaker John A. Boehner'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s effort to pass fallback legislation to avert a fiscal crisis in less than two weeks collapsed Thursday night in an embarrassing defeat after conservative Republicans refused to support legislation that would allow taxes to rise on the most...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[With Control of Senate at Stake, Last-Minute Money Pours Into Races]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/05/us/politics/last-minute-money-pours-into-senate-races.html?pagewanted=all</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republicans are placing much hope for the Senate on a youthful-looking candidate from Ohio, Josh Mandel. 
PAINESVILLE, Ohio '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' A torrent of outside money has dropped into this state in the closing days of the campaign to try to unseat Senator Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, part of a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[VA: Trying to Tip Race With Pinpoint Door Knocking]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/us/politics/door-knocking-army-tries-to-tip-virginia-senate-race.html?ref=politics</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[STERLING, Va. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Faiza Abdulle hopscotched through the tidy middle-class streets of exurban Washington one evening last month, carrying an iPod Touch that directed her surgically to the houses of a very certain type of voter.        Faiza Abdulle, a worker for Virginia New Majority,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Boehner To Double Down on Debt Rule]]></title>
							<link>http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/boehner-to-double-down-on-debt-rule/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[PoliticsWorldU.S.N.Y. / RegionBusinessTechnologyScienceHealthSportsOpinionArtsStyleTravelJobsReal EstateAutos@import url(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/css/0.1/screen/section/us/politics/specialseason/subNavigation.css);.subNavigation .congressItem a {  background: transparent...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Ready to Pressure GOP on &quot;Buffett Rule&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/07/us/politics/obama-democrats-ready-buffett-rule-tax-push.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama and Senate Democrats will kick off a coordinated pressure campaign on Republicans next week ahead of a tax day vote on legislation to enact the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Buffett Rule,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' which would ensure that the rich pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes.Mr....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Bets Other Concerns Will Trump Deficit]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/us/politics/obamas-budget-to-focus-on-cutting-deficit-and-adding-jobs.html?_r=1&amp;ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama will lay out a budget blueprint on Monday that amounts to an election-year bet that a plan for higher taxes on the rich and more spending on popular programs like infrastructure and manufacturing will trump concerns over the deficit.The new budget proposal contrasts with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pawlenty Takes On Romney]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304453304576391970916456538.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty, lagging behind in polls and stung by criticism of his debate performance, is going on offense against Republican front-runner Mitt Romney with what aides said will be a sustained attack on Mr. Romney's backing for a state health-care law as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney Jumps Into 2012 Fray]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704529204576257343590577276.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_5</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney jumped into the hunt for the  Republican 2012 White House nomination Monday, announcing the formation  of a presidential exploratory committee in a low-key Internet video that  focused on jobs and the economy."It's time we put America back on a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Address Previews 2012 Race]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704213404576100320293656468.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_6</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama will call for a "responsible" effort to shrink  the deficit but won't offer detailed plans on spending and taxes in a  State of the Union address Tuesday that will presage the broad themes  for political debate through the 2012 election.The president is expected to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Deal Struck on Tax Package]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama reached agreement Monday with Republican leaders  in Congress on a broad tax package that would extend the Bush-era income  tax cuts for two years, reduce worker payroll taxes for one year and  give more favorable treatment to business investments.Other elements of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Leads in Final Lap]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weisman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A vigorous post-Labor Day Democratic offensive has failed to diminish the resurgent Republicans' lead among likely voters, leaving the GOP poised for major gains in congressional elections two weeks away, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.Among likely voters,...]]></description>
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