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<title><![CDATA[Dick Polman - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14658.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Dick Polman]]></description><category domain="14658">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Are Newly Emboldened on Gun Control]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/democrats-have-introduced-bold-gun-control-legislation/581191/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Exit polls in November showed that 59 percent of voters in House races favored &ldquo;stricter gun-control measures.&rdquo;]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kavanaugh Could Widen the Midterms' Gender Gap]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-hearing/570625/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Weeks away from the midterms, Republicans are confronted with a widening gender gap.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Candidates Can't Keep Trump Out of Their Districts]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/trump-midterms-ohio-kansas/567502/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ego may be driving the president&rsquo;s campaign itinerary more than anything else.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats' Quest to Win the Senate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/the-democrats-quest-to-win-the-senate/567188/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They must hold 10 seats in Trump country and over-perform in contested states. But with a blue wave forecast, anything could happen.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Republicans Demonize Pelosi One More Time?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/can-the-gop-demonize-pelosi-one-more-time/565466/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican ad assault on the Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is now in its 12th year, but it may not work in the 2018 midterms.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[All Reason Leaves the Republicans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20121228_The_American_Debate__All_reason_leaves_the_GOP.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[All sanity seems to have left the ranks of those in charge of the GOP. Increasingly, it is becoming clear that the party is against everything and for nothing. That's not governing. That's just lobbing hand grenades. And the GOP is shrinking daily before our eyes.But those aren't my...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Warning to President Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/inquirer/20121209_The_American_Debate__Obama_will_struggle_to_avoid_the_second-term_curse.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said that "there are no second acts in American lives." But reelected presidents are required to try anyway. What's striking is how often the second acts fail to fulfill the promise of the first.Let that be a warning to President Obama.Over the last century,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Is Not Jimmy Carter]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20120916_The_American_Debate__TO_NOVEMBER_AND_AFTER.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was in the fall of 2010, during a break in the taping of a TV talk show, when I first heard the GOP's operative theory about the election of 2012. A conservative activist leaned toward me with a smile and excitedly intoned two magic words:"Jimmy Carter."And there it was. The template...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President's Jobs Act Would Have Created Jobs]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20120610_Polman__GOP_s_job-killing_election_strategy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republicans' 2012 election strategy is perversely brilliant: Sabotage President Obama's job-creation efforts, then blame him for the wreckage.This strategy was in action the other day, when Mitt Romney assailed Obama on the stump. Romney said that "with America in crisis, with 23...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt and Ann Are Out of Touch on Women]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/dick_polman/20120419_The_American_Debate__What_Hilary_Rosen_got_right.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Tough Slog Toward Election Day]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/inquirer/20110703_The_American_Debate__The_tough_slog_toward_Election_Day.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When President Obama remarked at his news conference Wednesday that the  economy "is a tough slog," yet insisted that "we still are moving  forward," I had an attack of deja vu. Obama sounded a lot like George W.  Bush talking about Iraq. And we all know what that slog did to Bush's ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Maybe All Isn't Lost for Democrats]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20100912_The_American_Debate__Making_a_case_that_maybe_all_isn_t_lost_for_the_Democrats.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Apparently, there's no need to chronicle the autumn campaign season, because the conventional wisdom has already forecast a Republican takeover on Capitol Hill, and it seems that the sole remaining mystery is whether to characterize the November results as a "massacre" or a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Playing Politics as Usual at White House?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/americandebate/A_perverse_game_of_peekaboo.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is getting farcical. Joe Sestak, Pennsylvania's Democratic  senatorial candidate, continues to say that the Obama White House sought  last summer to lure him away from the Senate race (thus clearing the  field for Arlen Specter) by offering him a juicy federal job - yet  Sestak...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Walls May Be Closing in on Specter]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20100516_The_American_Debate__Democratic_champion_or_rogue_knight_.html#axzz0o5tq6zRb</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Your basic Pennsylvania couch potato, having gorged by now on a surfeit of campaign commercials, may well believe that the heavy hitters in both parties adore Arlen Specter.In the various TV ads, George W. Bush lauds the loyalty of Arlen Specter ("I can count on this man"), Barack Obama...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Change Comes Again]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20100124_The_American_Debate__Change_comes_again.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By Dick Polman 					Inquirer National Political ColumnistTo really appreciate how far the political pendulum has swung, let's check in with Chris Matthews.Two winters ago, the TV host was all atingle about Barack Obama, to the point where "I felt this thrill going up my leg." But last...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Setting the Stage for a Midterm Showdown]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20100103_The_American_Debate__U_S__POLITICS__Setting_the_stage_for_a_midterm_showdown_.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By Dick Polman 					Inquirer National Political ColumnistFarewell, 2009. Was that a fun year in politics, or what?Birthers and Blue Dogs and polls, oh my. A new president under fire from the left and right. A Republican Party galvanized by the audacity of "no."A gritty and grinding...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Pitfalls of Political Correctness]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/americandebate/The_pitfalls_of_political_correctness.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama Can't Pull an LBJ]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20090726_The_American_Debate__Why_Obama_can_t_pull_an_LBJ.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the GOP Can't Block Sotomayor]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20090712_The_American_Debate__Why_GOP_can_t_block_Sotomayor.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's (Non) Response at Presser]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/americandebate/Obamas_non_response.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Health Care: Obama's Daunting Challenge]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/americandebate/Obama_and_Yogi.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I've been around the block too many times to believe that President Obama and the congressional Democrats will pull off the near-impossible and fix all that ails the health care system.
A screenwriter could easily conjure a Hollywood ending: Obama, by dint of his magic touch, manages to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Needs Courage on Gays in Military]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20090614_The_American_Debate__Obama_needs_just_a_bit_of_Truman_s_courage.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Life Experience is a Factor for All Judges]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20090531_The_American_Debate__Life_experience_is_a_factor_for_all_judges.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's Slide Into Irrelevance]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20090503_The_American_Debate__This_party_s_over__Specter_s_departure_is_one_more_sign_of_the_GOP_s_slide_into_immoderation_and_irrelevance_.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tension on the Ocean Liner]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/americandebate/Tension_on_the_ocean_liner.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Europeanization Not True, Not All Bad]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20090322_The_American_Debate__U_S__turning_into_Europe_untrue__but_wouldn_t_be_all_bad.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Roland Burris Saga Lives On]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/americandebate/The_word_weasel.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Daschle Embarrassment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/americandebate/Beltway_animal_behavior.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will America Buy the 'Post-Partisan' Vision?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/americandebate/The_America_of_his_dreams.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rules for Scandal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/americandebate/Rules_for_scandal.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Polman</author>
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