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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare's Fate Will Be Decided by '12 Election]]></title>
							<link>http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/113482-mapping-out-the-new-years-political-landscape/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As  Casey Stengel said, "Never make predictions, especially about the  future." But with no key electoral contests on tap for 2011 and the most  conservative and Republican House of Representatives in decades facing  off against a liberal Democratic president in the midst of the nation's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will a Dem Heavyweight Challenge Obama?]]></title>
							<link>http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/110941-democrats-against-obama/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now  that the midterm wipeout has concluded, analysts are already sizing up  the GOP challengers to a weakened Barack Obama. Not only that: some  Democratic party elders are considering the once-unthinkable scenario of  a debilitating challenge to Barack Obama from inside his party...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has Obama Peaked? Yes, He Has]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/12/has_obama_peaked_yes_he_has_99124.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To listen to some pundits, Barack Obama's public image began taking a serious beating when the off-year election returns came in a week ago. Or maybe it was the undeserved Nobel Prize, his approach to the war in Afghanistan, or when he revved up his pursuit of national health-care...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Men + Money = Mess]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/05/13/men__money__mess_96467.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since Iceland is something of the epicenter of the global financial crisis - its government being the first to essentially go belly up - it's probably not surprising that the Icelanders have come up with the most novel and interesting theory as to what caused the meltdown. And they may...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Senate Moderates Work Together?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/05/07/arlen_the_family_96373.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So, Arlen Specter is now a Democrat. That's old news. But with all the media attention focused on the short-term effects of Specter's midnight conversion - thus likely giving Democrats a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate - commentators have missed the long-range (and more...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Mandate: The Jury Is Still Out]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/29/spare_change_96238.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A tension lies at the heart of the Obama presidency. After 100 days in office, the public still seems uncertain how to interpret the historic nature of the election last November.
One camp claims President Barack Obama's inauguration marked a decisive break with the patterns of American...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Courthouse Marriage]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/22/courthouse_marriage_96097.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While political analysts understandably regard elections and politicians as the key forces of social change, nongovernmental forces are the ones that most often actually influence and transform our culture.
Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1850s novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, probably did as much as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Man Bites Newspaper]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/15/man_bites_newspaper_48922.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's not news that newspapers are in huge trouble &mdash; victims of technological change and a mini-depression. What is news is the unadorned glee that is greeting the demise of newsprint.
When auto or city workers lose their jobs, there's talk of bailouts and extra measures to cushion...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sports Aren't Recession Proof]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/sports_arent_recession_proof.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's one of the great myths of modern American life that, no matter what travesties befall us, sports will carry on unfazed. Thus, says the hype machine, despite the poor economy, all is well in the world of athletic competition. In times of trouble, people need entertainment more than...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jim Nauseam]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/jim_nauseam.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the early days of the Obama administration, one politically perilous warning keeps resurfacing for the man in the Oval Office: "Don't turn into another Jimmy Carter."By pursuing too broad an agenda, warn such Democrats as William Galston, Obama risks repeating the errors of the Carter...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama, Mr. Populist?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/obama_mr_populist.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama is an inspirational leader, a potential realigner, and a racial trailblazer. But he's not a populist -- and given his handling of the AIG debacle, it's clear that he'll never be one. With good reason.Populism comes in many guises and is constantly in flux. In general,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Obama's Problems Generational?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/are_obamas_problems_generation.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the major themes of Barack Obama's political philosophy has been that it's time for America to move beyond the Baby Boom Generation's petty partisanship. In The Audacity of Hope, he wrote that when he observed politics in his younger days, "I sometimes felt as if I were watching...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Crimson Tied]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/crimson_tied.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama's presidential campaign was successful in part because he was able to cleverly negotiate and navigate the battles that have plagued the United States the last few years: the culture wars and constant red-state/blue-state bickering. Now, though, his leadership style is being...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is President Obama Overexposed?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/appearing_act.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama is ubiquitous. In his first six weeks in office, he's given an inaugural address, a State of the Union-like speech to a joint-session of Congress (since new presidents don't really report on the state of the union), and an hour-long press conference. He's also made several...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Elephant Also Rises]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/the_elephant_also_rises.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Four months ago, the Republican Party seemed headed for the scrap heap. Today, things don't look quite so bad -- not because the party has done anything particularly brilliant, mind you, but because opposition parties almost always come back sooner or later -- and almost always for the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Appoint Paul Krugman Economic Czar]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/wish_upon_a_czar.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's one month into Barack Obama's presidency and it's already clear that the economic team isn't making the grade. Larry Summers helps craft a stimulus plan that almost no other economist thinks will work -- at least as well as it should. Timothy Geithner announces his bank-rescue plan...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[With Friends Like These]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/with_friends_like_these.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Warren Harding was obviously not one of our greatest presidents. But during his little more than two years in the White House, he did offer some shrewd insights into life at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue."I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tons of Money, But No Vision or Inspiration]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/nice_package_poetry_not_prose.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the largest stimulus package in world history winds its way through Congress, the critics are already out in force. Republicans, such as Kentucky Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, think it's too large and doesn't contain enough tax cuts. Liberal Democrats, such as New...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Intellectual Elite Are Back in Charge]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/revenge_of_the_nerds.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama's new administration has been characterized many ways -- as a return to liberalism, a Chicago Mafia, and the harbinger of a new age.But what it represents on a grander, political-science level is the return of the intellectual establishment to the seat of power in American...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inauguration Daze]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/inauguration_daze.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the next week, the press and pundits will talk all about the historical importance of Barack Obama's inaugural address. And, based on his past rhetorical performances, it should be a great one.But, alas for him and for them, it doesn't really matter. Inaugural addresses are an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama Can't Be Another FDR]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/12/obamas_no_fdr.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As we enter a new year, a new administration, and indeed a new era, the advice most given to Barack Obama is model your presidency after that of Franklin D. Roosevelt's. Time magazine photoshopped Obama into a cigarette-chomping, bespectacled Roosevelt for its November 25 cover, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Won The Old-Fashioned Way]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/12/obama_won_because_of_cold_hard.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conventional wisdom dictates that Barack Obama was swept into office on the winds of change. History books will surely echo that notion. But while those are sentimentally satisfying explanations for what took place this past November, Obama owes his presidency largely to cold hard...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Divide and Be Conquered]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/11/divide_and_be_conquered.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What with their decisive loss in the presidential election and the party's distinct minority status in the House and Senate, the Republicans could be forgiven for being pessimistic. Things do indeed look bad for their Grand Old Party.Actually, it's even worse than they think.Since the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Long Recession May Help Sports]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Redraws the Map]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/11/obama_redraws_the_map.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama has made history. The next question is whether his victory has sparked a lasting electoral realignment.In truth, we won't know the answer to that for at least four years -- perhaps longer. But the odds are that, as decisive as Obama's victory was, it won't result in a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Maverick in a Mess]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/maverick_in_a_mess.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A number of pundits, mostly of the conservative variety, would like you to believe that if Barack Obama wins on Tuesday, it's the mainstream media's fault.Don't believe a word of it. "Media bias" is to the Republicans what "Willie Horton" and "swiftboating" are to the Democrats -- a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Long National Nightmare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/long_national_nightmare.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last night, I woke up in a sweat. I'd had a very bizarre dream . . .NOVEMBER 5 -- There was Wilson over Hughes. And, of course, Truman over Dewey. But there's never been a surprise in presidential politics like the one that awaited Americans this morning, who woke up to discover that,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lou Dobbs in 2012?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/lou_dobbs_in_2012.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On November 4, the United States will elect a new president. And, on November 5, in this era of the permanent campaign, the Road to the White House 2012 will begin in earnest. Depending on what happens on Election Day, of course, there are two distinctly different narratives that are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Realigning Election?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/a_realigning_election.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how many negative ads are broadcast or how many moose are slain on the tundra, candidates and their actions don't transform our politics nearly as much as outside events and circumstances do. Thus, if Barack Obama ends up winning a substantial victory next month, it may...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Steering a Suddenly Lost GOP Ship]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/steering_a_suddenly_lost_gop_s.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Stark</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The past two weeks or so have seen at least one historic meltdown -- the virtually unprecedented disintegration of the credit markets. The question that won't be answered until November 4 is whether they've also witnessed a secondary collapse -- the self-destruction of the John McCain...]]></description>
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