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<title><![CDATA[Matt Bai - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14816.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Matt Bai]]></description><category domain="14816">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Fauci Hysteria Reveals Big Flaw of Our Political System]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/anthony-fauci-hysteria-reveals-a-big-flaw-of-our-political-system/ar-AA29RgXR</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[People are angry, and I don't blame them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Dem Party Has Never Been Weaker. This May Be a Good Thing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/democratic-party-never-weaker-may-130000084.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It ought to be a pretty optimistic time for Democrats. Donald Trump's in a deep hole, and his only answer is to ask for more shovels. The House seems likely to tip back toward Democrats, redistricting shenanigans notwithstanding, and strong Senate candidates in a bunch of reliably red...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump Is the American Ayatollah]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/donald-trump-is-the-american-ayatollah/ar-AA22mqnt</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Scholars of international relations regard modern Iran as the world's only theocratic republic. What this means is that the country combines elements of two governing systems.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Regime Change Is Never Painless]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/regime-change-never-painless-130000000.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The American concept of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'regime change,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' which didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t enter the popular lexicon until the end of the 20th century, was actually born in Iran. In 1951, at the dawn of the Cold War, Mohammad Mosaddegh, an intellectual and raging anti-imperialist, became prime minister and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Much Empathy Do I Have To Summon for Trump Voters?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By now, they know who he is. In fact, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s exactly what they love about him.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Harris Can Win the Debate With Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/IMUzF</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve already seen this presidential campaign dramatically altered by the first debate, which led to a swift reshuffling at the top of the Democratic ticket. The outcome of the election might well hinge on this next one.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden or Haley? For Some Dems, It's About Who Can Stop Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://thesouthern.com/news/biden-or-haley-for-some-democrats-it-s-about-who-can-stop-trump/article_a7535b31-f361-5c45-8f52-f39719aa1a46.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you're a Democrat, or someone who intends to vote that way in the fall, I have a hypothetical exercise for you.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Bill Barr a Bad Man?]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/is-bill-barr-a-bad-man-090000913.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[William Barr brings to mind The Best and the Brightest, the term for the liberal intellectuals who became architects and defenders of the Vietnam War. They too were capable and decent men who allowed their capabilities and decency to become lost in a void of self-delusion.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Running Against Bernie in 2020: It's Easier Than You Think]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/running-bernie-2020-easier-think-090057415.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Right now, at a time when Democrats are frantically searching for the anti-Trump, Bernie is starting to look strangely like a reverse image of the president, instead.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Artifice of the Deal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-artifice-of-the-deal-090054747.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump isn't really a man of action. He's a man of artifice. He talks and he talks and he talks, the world's foremost expert on dominating a news cycle, knowing all along that by the time we realize none of it's real, he'll have ushered us along to whatever's next.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Tax Cuts Spur the Economy? Maybe With a Time Machine.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/will-tax-cuts-spur-american-economy-maybe-time-machine-100008514.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&amp;soc_trk=tw</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The GOP tax bill's main failing is that it's based on a played-out theory, aimed at the problems of an age when the economy looked completely different.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Patsy in the White House]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/patsy-white-house-090039059.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The picture of Trump that's emerging is of a president who turns out to be an easy mark for every spy and con man who walks through the door.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Pelosi Should Go - &amp; Take the '60s Generation With Her]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/pelosi-go-take-60s-generation-090032524.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi should leave the stage not because she's controversial, but because what her party needs is a turnover in talent.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Defense of Trump Tweeting (But Not What He Tweets)]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/defense-trump-tweeting-not-tweets-090016995.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Twitter is exactly the right medium for the modern presidency. It's just that Donald Trump continues to prove himself the wrong man for the job.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Trump's Presidency an Existential Threat?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/is-trumpism-an-existential-threat-100032958.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I've been thinking about Barack Obama lately, and not because I suspect he ordered a tap on my phones, or directed his agents to eavesdrop through my flat-screen, although I like the idea of someone poring through hundreds of pages of transcripts of me ranting about how I can't seem to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Not Orwellian. He's the Distracter-in-Chief]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-not-orwellian-hes-the-distracter-in-chief-100035222.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print, George Orwell once wisely admonished his fellow writers. In Huxley's vision, Postman wrote, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Moment That Made Trump Possible]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-moment-that-made-trump-possible-100008601.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump said a lot of things about a lot of people on his journey to the White House. He mocked a war hero for getting captured. He accused a rival's dad of consorting with President Kennedy's killer. He likened another opponent '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? soon to be a member of his Cabinet '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? to a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Problem Behind Fake News]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-real-problem-behind-fake-news-233047332.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To the list of historic firsts that Donald Trump seems to rack up daily, we can now add this: He is the first candidate in the annals of American politics to allege massive fraud in an election he actually won. Trump took to Twitter last weekend to declare that he would have won not just...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Clinton Hasn't Put Trump Away]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-clinton-hasnt-put-trump-away-090041706.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Clinton had proved herself again to be the diligent studier who pretends to be amused when you know she isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??t. According to all the TV analysis, which now eerily resembles an NFL playoff postgame show, Donald had self-destructed, Hillary had humiliated him, and the dynamic of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Like Everything Else, the Debates Are All About Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/like-everything-else-the-debates-are-all-about-trump-090021478.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whether from incompetence or instability, Donald Trump has made himself not the default alternative to a deeply distrusted candidate, but the dominant and more divisive figure of the two.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Populists Had Their Night, But It's Clinton's Party Now]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/populists-had-night-clinton-party-000000513.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former President Bill Clinton listens as first lady Michelle Obama speaks on Monday at the Democratic National Convention. If you tuned in only for the opening of this Democratic convention in Philadelphia Monday, you might have been asking yourself who really emerged from the primary...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Black Hole Within Donald Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/black-hole-within-donald-trump-000000238.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m no advice columnist, and normally I wouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t use this space for relationship counseling, but here'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a small bit of wisdom that I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve offered to a few friends over the years and that might be useful to Republicans in Washington.When you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re deciding whether to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Needs Unity Less Than You Think]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-needs-unity-less-than-1426766741651510.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You can imagine what goes through Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s mind whenever he finds himself dragged to Washington. I mean, here'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a city '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' or so it calls itself, anyway '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'where you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re not allowed to build any of those great phallic towers, where they can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t make a decent...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republican Party Can't Steal What Trump Didn't Earn]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-republican-party-can-t-1402047670140982.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Finally, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s here!Every four years, as predictable as Bill O'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'Reilly hawking his own books under the guise of viewer mail, the leading prognosticators in my industrydream aloud of a contested convention. It usually goes something like: IfHillary Clinton wins the South and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why #NeverTrump Will Never Work]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/politics/why-nevertrump-will-never-work-1392133276262454.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We all had a good laugh at Chris Christie'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s expense after the New Hampshire primary, when he decided to get behind Donald Trump in exchange for dibs on an especially comfortable chaise longue at Mar-a-Lago. Next to the kinds of craven endorsements we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re seeing now, though,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Knock Knock, Marco. It's a Wolf Named Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/politics/knock-knock-marco-its-a-wolf-named-trump-095457705.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, in a little town called Establishment Creek where prosperity trickled down through a burbling stream, there lived three little pigs. Their names were Jeb, Chris and Marco.One day a wolf came up their windy trail, followed by a very angry mob and a horde of TV...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If Trump Wins, He Can Thank Rubio's New Hampshire Meltdown]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/politics/if-trump-wins-he-has-1367322603880502.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Mitt Romney lost his presidential bid in 2012, a lot of senior Republicans blamed Chris Christie for cementing his defeat. At a critical moment that fall, you may remember, New Jersey'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s governor had stoodarm in arm with President Obama as they toured the wreckage of Hurricane...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There Is Only One Way Forward for Hillary Clinton Now]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/politics/there-is-only-one-way-1362390891388982.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the days before Bernie Sanders positively obliterated Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, raising the very real specter that she could lose the nomination, I found myself thinking a lot about an exchange she had with voters during a CNN town hall in Derry.A tired-looking man rose and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rubio's Rise &amp; the End of the Bush Dynasty]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/politics/rubio-s-rise-and-the-1357475908149302.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The day after the Iowa caucuses, I watched as the Shakespearean drama underlying this year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Republican race '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a classic tale of friendship and betrayal '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' played out its final act on either edge of New Hampshire.In Keene, close to the Vermont border, I joined the small...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rubio's Campaign Struggling to Get Liftoff]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/politics/rubio-is-not-a-republican-obama-and-thats-his-161955503.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Bai</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the most frequent refrains among Republican voters this year is that Barack Obama was tragically unprepared for the office when he was elected president. Most often, Rubio tries to head off this comparison by repeatedly and acidly berating Obama, as if desperate to get across...]]></description>
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