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<title><![CDATA[Ron Brownstein - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14887.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ron Brownstein]]></description><category domain="14887">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Stakes Are Rising for Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/01/politics/president-joe-biden-agenda-summer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' President Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' avoid the "summer slump"? For most Americans, the unofficial arrival of summer with Memorial Day is a cause for celebration. But for newly elected presidents, it's more often been a reason for dread. Sagging job approval ratings, unanticipated challenges at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the 2020s Could Be as Dangerous as the 1850s]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/why-the-2020s-could-be-as-dangerous-as-the-1850s/ar-BB1axkV2</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Joe Biden beats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump decisively next week, this election may be remembered as a hinge point in American history: the moment when a clear majority of voters acknowledged that there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s no turning back from America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s transformation into a nation of kaleidoscopic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stability of 2020 Race Promises More Volatility Ahead]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/15/politics/2020-election-american-voter-worldviews/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a presidency of unprecedented disruption and turmoil, Donald Trump's support has remained remarkably stable. That stability, paradoxically, points toward years of rising turbulence in American politics and life.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Partisan Chasm Over 'Systemic Racism' on Full Display]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/08/politics/2020-election-racism-partisan-view/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The throngs of protesters'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' demanding systemic changes in policing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' are marching directly into one of the deepest chasms between the two political parties.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Coming Democratic Drama Over Medicare for All]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/2020-could-be-test-medicare-alls-popularity/581746/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The policy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s supporters could run up against the same problems that Republicans faced in trying to repeal Obamacare.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Hurting GOP in Key House Swing Districts]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/10/trump-hurting-gop-key-suburban-districts/572749/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The GOP'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s chances are dim in the districts Hillary Clinton won in 2016'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s all Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s fault.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Democrats Press Their Home-Court Advantage?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/primary-california-democrats-house/562250/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After California, the party could come close to retaking the House just by sweeping away the last remaining Republicans in otherwise blue-leaning states.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Small-Town America Has Gotten Economic Jolt Under Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/20/politics/small-town-america-fault-lines/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[(CNN) Fueled largely by rising oil prices, small town and rural America enjoyed an economic jolt in 2017 that could widen the political gap in November's midterm election between those smaller places more friendly to President Donald Trump and the big metropolitan areas sharply recoiling...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Culture Replacing Class as the Key Political Divide]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/britain-united-states/489410/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When United Kingdom voters last week narrowly approved a referendum to leave the European Union, they underscored again how an era of unrelenting economic and demographic change is shifting the axis of politics across much of the industrialized world from class to culture.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Shape of the Republican Race]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/the-new-shape-of-the-republican-race/470256/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Marco Rubio'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s coalition is still too shallow, and Ted Cruz'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s too narrow, to challenge Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??can either build beyond that?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Two Versions of America Emerge in Presidential Campaign]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/next-america/newsdesk/two-versions-america-emerge-presidential-campaign?mref=home_top_main</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The cul'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'tur'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'al and demo'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'graph'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'ic gulf between the Re'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'pub'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'lic'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'an and Demo'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'crat'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'ic elect'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'or'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'al co'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'ali'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'tions can now be meas'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'ured not just in space, but time.Today, the two parties rep'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'res'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'ent not only dif'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'fer'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'ent sec'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'tions of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The States That Will Pick the GOP Nominee]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/next-america/newsdesk/states-that-could-pick-gop-nominee?mref=home_top_side_1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Those look'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'ing for the turn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'ing points in the tu'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'mul'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'tu'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'ous GOP pres'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'id'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'en'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'tial race may want to circle on their cal'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'en'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'dars the con'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'tests next year in Michigan, Ohio, and Illinois in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the Mid'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'w'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'est, and South Car'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'o'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'lina, Vir'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'gin'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'ia,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Hillary Keep Her Balance?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/political-connections/can-hillary-clinton-keep-her-balance-between-a-primary-policy-fight-and-the-general-election-20150527</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you look out from one side of Hillary Clinton's campaign office here, you can see straight to the Brooklyn Bridge and lower Manhattan, with no apartment buildings or office towers blocking the breathtaking views.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Social Issues Sink GOP in 2016?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/political-connections/pence-s-problems-a-preview-of-gop-s-biggest-2016-hurdle-20150401</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Indiana Republican Gov. Mike Pence has long been a big fish in conservative circles. And this week he looked every bit the part, raging and writhing like a shark caught in a net after the "Religious Freedom Restoration Act" that he signed to cheers from social conservatives provoked a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why a College Degree Doesn't Matter Anymore]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/next-america/education/why-a-college-education-doesn-t-matter-anymore-20131107</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jason Parkinson, a 29-year-old electrician from Cleveland, doesn't consider it much of a handicap that he never obtained a four-year college degree after high school. "It doesn't do any good anymore," he says. "You get a four-year degree, you work at a fast-food restaurant. You can go to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Culture Wars Now Favor Democrats]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/political-connections/why-the-culture-wars-now-favor-democrats-20130404</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For decades after the cultural upheavals of the 1960s, Republicans regularly provoked confrontations on a broad array of polarizing noneconomic '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'wedge issues,'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' from crime and welfare to immigration and gay rights. Democrats, with a few exceptions, mostly tried through those years to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Voter Disapproval of Obama Hardens]]></title>
							<link>http://nationaljournal.com/magazine/obama-s-performance-rating-slips-again-20111014</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like an early-autumn frost, a blast of pessimism about the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s direction has snapped a slow but steady warming trend toward President Obama in the latest Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor survey.Just 44 percent of those surveyed said they approved of Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton to Obama: Don't Blink on Debt Ceiling]]></title>
							<link>http://nationaljournal.com/clinton-calls-on-obama-not-to-blink-on-debt-ceiling-deal-with-gop-20110702</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former President Clinton on Saturday night urged President Obama not  to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'blink'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' at Republican demands to exclude revenue increases from any  agreement to extend the government'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s debt ceiling.If Republicans maintain their opposition to revenue increases,  Clinton said,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney's Evangelical Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://nationaljournal.com/magazine/romney-s-evangelical-problem-20110519?page=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee, judging by the early opinion polls, would have been among the most formidable challengers to Mitt Romney, the putative front-runner for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. But Huckabee's departure from the race, paradoxically, could make it more difficult for Romney to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2012 Will Be About Size of Government]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/political-connections/how-many-government-services-will-voters-be-willing-to-surrender--20110421</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's always hazardous to predict the issues that will define the next presidential selection. But leading thinkers in both parties say that events of the past two weeks have locked in place a major part of the 2012 general-election contest.The debate will revolve around a big question...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Like Ike]]></title>
							<link>http://nationaljournal.com/columns/political-connections/obama-a-lot-like-ike-20110324</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2008, many of Barack Obama's supporters thought they might be electing another John F. Kennedy. But his recent maneuvers increasingly suggest that they selected another Dwight Eisenhower.That's not a comment on President Obama's effectiveness or ideology, but rather on his conception...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[111th Congress Was One for the Books]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/political-connections/one-for-the-books-20101223</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This month's final flurry of legislative successes for President Obama and the Democratic Congress underscores the difficulty of rendering a single verdict on their tumultuous two years in power.In November, Democrats forfeited control of the House after suffering the largest midterm...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Summers on the Upside of Economic Cycles]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/ad_20101002_8846.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his first public remarks since the White House announced that he will leave his post at the end of the year, outgoing National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers gave his verdict on two years on the front lines of economic recovery at a National Journal Live event on September...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Public's Alienation Isn't Likely to Go Away]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/po_20100813_5304.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The electoral wave threatening  congressional Democrats this fall looks at least as big as the breakers  that flattened congressional Republicans in 2006 and 2008. But the odds  are high that this won't be the last storm surge from an angry sea of  American discontent.Democrats are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Economic Narrative Gap]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/nj_20100414_3015.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The ferocity of this week's Senate Republican attack on Democratic financial reform legislation was the surest sign yet that the GOP believes it is winning the argument over the economy.Last year, amid the aftershocks of the most catastrophic financial meltdown since the Depression,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Terror's Dreary, Decade Long Shadow]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/nj_20100109_6045.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sign In	nationaljournal.com	     	  > National Journal Magazine > Political Connections		Sponsored LinksAdvanced Searchby Ronald BrownsteinSaturday, Jan. 9, 2010How fitting, though dispiriting, that the final major event in the decade that expired last week was a terrorist attack...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Showing a New Vulnerability]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/politicalconnections.php</link>
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