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<title><![CDATA[Chris Smith - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14711.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Chris Smith]]></description><category domain="14711">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Mamdani Hit Right Notes in Rousing Inauguration Speech]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/4U9sH</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now the democratic socialist has to translate campaign momentum into an ambitious and expensive agenda'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'while keeping President Donald Trump at bay.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Behind Lane Kiffin's $100 Million Ole Miss Kiss-Off]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/yrOY4</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Most coaches have a conscience. But Lane Kiffin is not that guy," says one college football vet, surveying the wreckage of the Ole Miss-LSU imbroglio.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani, Graham Platner Want To Overhaul Dems]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/YajqD</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was just past midnight on a mid-October Friday, and Morris Katz was sprawled out on the floor of his firm'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s office in downtown Brooklyn, a warm six-pack of Bud Light within easy reach. Katz could not be blamed for needing a drink.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As Cuomo Tries To Catch Mamdani, the Race May Get Ugly]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/NDvRi</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'You'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve got a candidate who has lost his way,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' one Cuomo insider tells Vanity Fair.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside the Cold Calculation of the Biden Brain Trust]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Wilmington, Joe Biden's reelection team is tackling stubborn polls, Gaza protests, and third-party threats as it assembles a sophisticated machine to defeat Donald Trump. And the stakes couldn't be higher: We could lose the thing that matters most to me, says campaign chair Jen...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[At 80, Can Biden Prove He's Up To the Task?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At 80, President Biden is at the peak of his career. As he makes another run at the White House, those around him see a man with unfinished business who'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s still deeply concerned about American democracy. But can they prove to the American voters that he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s up to the task?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will the Democratic Machine in Nevada Come Through?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/10/democratic-machine-reid-nevada-midterms-2022</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Nevada, a major teachers' union is withholding its endorsement, infighting has roiled the state Democratic party, and Republicans are inching up in the polls. This would never have happened if Senator Reid were still alive, a Nevada Democratic insider tells Vanity Fair.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gov. Newsom's Team Is Thrilled Jenner Is Running in Recall]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/05/gavin-newsoms-team-is-thrilled-that-caitlyn-jenner-is-running-for-governor</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jenner's Republican cash and Trumpy advisers could go a long way toward making Newsom look palatable, his allies believe. But there's still a fraught summer to navigate. I think he's uninterested in the problems of the little people, says a Democratic strategist. And the people are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gov. Cuomo Is Determined to Hold On to Power]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/03/as-scandal-rocks-cuomo-the-governor-is-determined-to-hold-on-to-power</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Cuomo has muscled his way out of sticky spots before, and he's still a long way from resignation. But more accusers could change the calculus.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Biden Steer Debate Night Back to Reality?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/can-joe-biden-steer-debate-night-back-to-reality</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tuesday night won't be like sparring with wonky Paul Ryan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'or, really, any coherent politician. Trump is a bulldozer to norms, says Philippe Reines, and Biden needs to be prepared to call out his bullshit.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Biden Camp Plans to Leverage the SCOTUS Fight]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/how-the-biden-camp-plans-to-leverage-scotus-fight</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death roils the media-sphere, Democrats still see a Trump defeat as contingent on COVID. This has been an incredibly stable race, one Biden campaign pollster says. I still think a plurality of people believe this issue makes no difference in how they...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In the Iowa Endgame, the Agony of the Undecideds]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/01/in-the-iowa-endgame-the-agony-of-the-undecideds</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bernie promises deliverance from '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'oligarchic drift'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'; Buttigieg makes the case for hope; Biden bets on an older demo. But one goal'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'defeating Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'is paramount.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Giant Problem With Buttigieg's Momentum]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/11/the-giant-problem-with-mayor-petes-momentum</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mayor Pete's Iowa surge is real. But if he can't make inroads among black voters, he'll never be the nominee.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Weird Persistence (and Stunning Weakness) of Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/11/the-weird-persistence-and-stunning-weakness-of-biden</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His campaign can appear near moribund'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and yet simultaneously, in some polls, he's the only bona fide Trump-slayer. Can Warren or Buttigieg pick up the pieces?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Elizabeth Warren Is Eating Bernie Sanders' Left Lunch]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/09/how-elizabeth-warren-is-eating-sanderss-left-lunch</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tactically, methodically, the Massachusetts senator is making herself the progressives' consensus candidate. The ultimate prize? An AOC endorsement.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Perils of Biden's House of Cards Campaign Strategy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/09/the-perils-of-bidens-campaign-strategy</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden is relentlessly on message. But what happens if the perception of his electability starts to slip?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren's Big Bet on Impeachment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/elizabeth-warren-bet-big-on-impeachment</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the first candidate to make removing Trump part of her platform, she has a lot riding on the special counsel's testimony.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Can't Kamala Harris Catch Fire?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/why-cant-kamala-catch-fire?verso=true</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Harris is definitely the best prosecutor of the bunch'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but she and her campaign are wrestling with several messages and her polling numbers have stalled. Still, This is a two-year race.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Sherrod Brown Has an Edge on Sanders &amp; Warren]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/why-sherrod-brown-may-have-an-edge-on-warren-and-sanders</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sure, he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s less well known'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s also less polarizing. And the Ohio senator has a proven ability to win Trump voters.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Democrats Are Betting on the Coasts for 2018]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/why-democrats-are-betting-on-the-coasts-to-deliver-the-house</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Washington Braces for an Even Bigger FBI Bombshell]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/washington-braces-fbi-bombshell-nunes-inspector-general#213</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump's Legal Team Will Turn on Flynn]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/theyll-have-to-destroy-him-why-trumps-legal-team-will-turn-on-flynn</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a year of the nonstop bizarre, President'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' enduring affection for'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Michael Flynn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' has stood out. Trump, according to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' James Comey,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' cleared the Oval Office to ask the then-F.B.I. director to go easy on Flynn. Even after firing his national security adviser...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[At the FBI, Anger at Being Scapegoated]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/hillary-is-corrupt-and-trump-is-crazy-the-fbi-anger-at-being-scapegoated</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The F.B.I. team had plowed through 50,000'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Hillary Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' e-mails'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' found on'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Anthony Weiner'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' laptop in less than one week. Yet on Saturday night, November 5'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'less than three days before polls opened for Election Day, 2016'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'there were 3,000 more to review. Pizza was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Authoritarian Endgame on the Russia Probe]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/brute-authoritarianism-gaming-out-trump-mueller-endgame</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[De Blasio on Trump, Cuomo and Getting NY to Like You]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/09/bill-de-blasio-in-conversation.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The mayor thinks New Yorkers appreciate real talk, even if some of it is bad news. But also, he says, a lot of it isn't.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Meet the De Blasios]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/features/bill-de-blasio-2013-11/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He is joking, but he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not kidding. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'When I spoke last time, they needed a much smaller room,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Bill de Blasio says to laughter. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'This is the glory of American democracy!'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Exactly one year earlier, De Blasio had appeared before the same group, the Association for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bill de Blasio's Full-Spectrum Victory]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/09/bill-de-blasios-full-spectrum-victory.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bill de Blasio was riding to yet another appearance when he got a phone call telling him a new poll would show he had suddenly, for the first time, jumped into the lead in the Democratic primary. De Blasio'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s reaction? To check that the call wasn'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'t a prank.Exactly four weeks later, de...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Christine Quinn, Frontrunner Again]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/politics/citypolitic/christine-quinn-2013-8/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a sparkling late-July morning in Brooklyn. The bluish-green sky nearly matches the teal on the candidate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s campaign posters. It would be a picture-perfect scene, except for the fact that Christine Quinn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s sidewalk-press-conference words are mostly drowned out by the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Andrew Cuomo: The Albany Machiavelli]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/features/andrew-cuomo-2013-4/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are so many intersecting and overlapping spheres of power and meaning in this 43rd-floor room that John Venn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s diagramming hand would swiftly tire. This luncheon, on a snowy day in early March, is to rally support for stricter campaign-finance laws. It is being held on Eighth...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Brief, Bizarre Political Career of Caroline Kennedy]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Smith</author>
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