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<title><![CDATA[Scot Lehigh - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14682.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Scot Lehigh]]></description><category domain="14682">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Republican House Fails the Ronald Reagan Test]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Following its Friday failure to deliver a new package of aid for Ukraine, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s time for a title change in the US House of Representatives.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump Goes Full Fascist in His Rhetoric]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-goes-full-fascist-in-his-rhetoric/ar-AA1jVwZA</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If an autocrat from another nation toured America and recommended that the US president use the power of the state to punish his perceived enemies and root out the supposed socialists and communists and other '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'vermin,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d consider him a ridiculous figure who doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden Needs To Address Queries About Hunter]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden needs to step to the presidential plate and forthrightly address questions regularly swirling about due to his son Hunter. That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s true whether they fall into the category of legitimate inquiries or probable political canards.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Indictment of Trump Is Essential for Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-indictment-of-donald-trump-is-essential-for-democracy/ar-AA1eFakk</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Special counsel Jack Smith delivered a powerful indictment of former president Donald Trump on Tuesday for his alleged scheming and actions to overturn the 2020 presidential election. But it wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t stunning. Yes, there were further details, but little of the indictment'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s main...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Message to Putin: The West Won't Blink]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/joe-bidens-message-to-vladimir-putin-the-west-wont-blink/ar-AA17LTEX</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his surprise trip to Ukraine, Biden was the only person in the world who could convincingly serve that notice '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and he did it in commanding fashion.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden's Surprising Early Strength]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2019/05/02/biden-surprising-early-strength/GyNxHccctechWpdWkKrQoN/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden's surge reflects his acceptability and electability.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi Won't Bet Her Job on a Democratic Win]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/05/02/nancy-pelosi-won-bet-her-job-democratic-win/wuez5uxODgLbCyzxDYhbnN/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To hear Pelosi tell it, victory is all but signed, sealed, and delivered.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Seeing Through the Gun Lobby's Fog]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/02/22/don-fooled-gun-lobby-fog/m5ylewqymVFs1rvkOqZwbO/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre was trafficking in cross-eyed conspiratorial craziness.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where Is the GOP Headed?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/02/13/where-gop-headed/kPf4nABh5Uxy2ZDQBcZvpI/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two Republican stalwarts take stock of their party.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Supporters Need to Confront His Racism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/01/18/trump-supporters-need-confront-his-racism/ya4ZfpZD0QKIN0Kp0PMkJO/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He's your president, Donald Trump supporters. You need to speak up about his racism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Sisyphus Tries Again to Repeal Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/05/02/president-sisyphus-tries-once-again-repeal-obamacare/AGq9QY2azeNnVuIybrpD6N/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And once again the health care boulder will slip his grasp and carom back down that daunting slope.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reality Confronts Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/04/13/reality-confronts-trump/BDGb5gQbkxyHuAvaLONQFL/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His flips and flops have been so pronounced that a redefining moment has arrived.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Runs Aground on Reef of Reality]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/02/21/trump-runs-aground-reef-reality/ZblyjNW0rfX9eTpIuKcwnM/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump now finds himself caught between a campaign rock and a governing hard place.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Could Learn a Lot From Ronald Reagan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/01/24/trump-could-learn-lot-from-ronald-reagan/22RrKOFChSIsgOXT6yoPhM/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump needs to learn from Ronald Reagan. Or perhaps Harry Truman.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Promises Are About to Collide With Reality]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/12/22/trump-promises-are-about-collide-with-reality/9W0aUpiE8MFCxtfxek0RPK/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We are about to see a collision between complexity and simplicity '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? and it will be a public-policy pile-up for the ages.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unease in the Christmas Air in Germany]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/12/19/unease-christmas-air-germany/9uy7EpbMVKzNylVkXcqHrI/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As we made our way through the Christmas market in Munich last week, we wondered: What if terrorists chose it as a target?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Campaign Now Knee-Deep in the Muck]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/columns/2016/10/08/trump-campaign-now-knee-deep-muck/peCs5RwCAojCcw8P2BI81N/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With his scowling apology for a lewd audio clip, Donald Trump makes it clear that he intends to drag the presidential campaign into the gutter.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton &amp; Trump's Contest of Nerves]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/10/06/clinton-and-trump-contest-nerves/1Qy7oGl3tj1fgotceTkO4M/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s a high-stakes game of chicken between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? and it may all play in prime time during Sunday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s presidential debate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America, Donald Trump Owes You an Apology]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/09/20/america-donald-trump-owes-you-apology/k3SlON38gktX75rCbjzGTL/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since Donald Trump finally abandoned the birther nonsense he had long indulged, the big question has been whether he will apologize to Barack Obama.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Goes South of the Border -- and of the Truth]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/09/01/trump-goes-south-border-and-truth/a1ApsXz9VcuOL6MZEV9zkL/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Talk about grading on the curve.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Tries to Escape a Narrow Corner]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/08/30/donald-trump-tries-escape-narrow-corner/Qy3kUXAtDzPr8UtIqt3qFK/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THESE DAYS, DONALD Trump resembles a classic character from old cartoons: the bumbling do-it-yourselfer who has painted himself into a corner. After months on the stump, the GOP nominee now finds himself confined by his own rhetoric in a narrow Electoral College nook.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' To put it in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Voters Getting It Right, Rejecting Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/08/23/voters-are-getting-right-clinton-and-trump/VzXUHE1gM21Sld3TVDeOaO/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is a summer that has shown American politics at its democracy-affirming best.I can guess what some are thinking: You'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve joined the ranks of mad dogs and Englishmen out in the midday sun; how can anyone make such a statement in this time of Donald Trump and his choleric crowds,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republican Party's Angry Id]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/07/23/the-gop-angry/4ZVjhrOmaPEJC6p6Vo4icJ/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you consider today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Republican Party as a little like King George III '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a patient temporarily touched in the head '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hard to be optimistic about a speedy recovery.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Not after a week like this one. A national convention that was supposed to put the best face...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republican Party's Intellectual Vacuum]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/07/20/the-gop-intellectual-vacuum/o1NYosbJqDhqvKE4LoWTbM/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s as though a large intellectual vacuum has descended over Cleveland and settled in like a giant low pressure area.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' As with nature, the press abhors such a state of affairs, even when suffering from the same mental condition. And so it is that thousands upon thousands of words...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Another Clinton &quot;Scandal&quot; Goes Poof]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/07/06/another-clinton-scandal-goes-poof/L0eJ2I5yGc9PYVTeEaDpmN/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[SO NOW it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s all but official: No bolt from the blue will ruin Hillary Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidential hopes.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' There will be no criminal charges against Clinton because of her use of a private e-mail server while secretary of state. FBI Director James B. Comey virtually assured that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump &amp; Clinton Campaign in Coal Country]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/05/07/coal-miners-struggle-reinvent-themselves/Wyl9rO3NGsMqV7cGuGdp2M/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??If this is all you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??ve known all your life, what do you do?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Slow and Steady Won Clinton the Debate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/02/12/slow-and-steady-won-clinton-debate/IpTG0vSD1lTs4wOpJeTZGK/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THURSDAY NIGHT'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'S PBS-fest wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t a night of political pyrotechnics, but a good solid exchange that showed the strengths and weaknesses of both candidates. I scored it a win for Hillary Clinton.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' One of the most dramatic moments came in the last few minutes of the debate, when...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kasich Finally Getting His Moment]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve long thought that John Kasich was a New Hampshire kind of guy '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and now the Granite State seems to be deciding the same.Since the turn of the year, Kasich has generated real traction here with his folksy, optimistic, mild-mannered approach. And you can see it now in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Paris Changes Climate Politics]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/12/17/how-paris-changes-climate-politics/gJwk44KulfDAG43GR1wPXJ/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Iit's not just the physical climate that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s changing.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Post-Paris conference, the political climate is shifting too '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and steadily eroding the uneasy soil on which the Republican Party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s climate-change skepticism resides. And that could leave most of the GOP'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Candidates Search for Their Reagan Moment]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scot Lehigh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Watching the Republican presidential debates, you can see the candidates striving for a Ronald Reagan moment.I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m referring to that electric exchange from the 1980 campaign, when Reagan tried to flood a Nashua Telegraph debate, meant to feature him and principal rival George H.W....]]></description>
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