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<title><![CDATA[Eleanor Clift - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15012.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Eleanor Clift]]></description><category domain="15012">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How Hunter Biden Became His Father&rsquo;s 'Gatekeeper']]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinion-how-hunter-biden-became-his-father-s-gatekeeper/ar-BB1pHAlz?cvid=f9d32e51174747cfa47260ab7534e101&amp;ei=5</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fighting for his political life is a familiar even invigorating role for Joe Biden. He'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s been discounted enough times before but to be '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'pushed out,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' his words, after winning every primary and more than enough delegates to secure the nomination'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not going to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Abortion Could Win Biden Votes - If He Frames It Right]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/07/05/abortion-rights-could-win-biden-votes-if-he-figures-out-what-to-say/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In every election since the Supreme Court overturned Roe two years ago, voters have turned out in big numbers to]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Oz Making PA Senate Race All About Crime. It's Working]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dr-oz-is-making-the-pennsylvania-senate-campaign-all-about-crime-e2-80-94and-it-e2-80-99s-working/ar-AA12H2SE</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After months of the political equivalent of throwing spaghetti against the wall to see what sticks, Dr. Mehmet Oz'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Republican nominee for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'found the issue to transform his underdog race against Democrat John Fetterman into a newly competitive...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2nd Amendment Should Evolve With Constitution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/of-course-the-constitution-evolves%e2%80%94the-second-amendment-should-too/ar-AAY5SRX</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gun rights activists want us to believe the Second Amendment is sacrosanct, and that any form of gun control infringes on a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Yet two former Supreme Court justices, both appointed by Republican presidents, Warren Burger (Nixon) and John Paul...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Biden Must Do If He Wants to Win Re-Election]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/biden-needs-to-fix-his-covid-screwups-if-he-wants-to-win-re-election-in-2024/ar-AAXzI8z</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[COVID-19 could end up taking down two presidents'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the one who was grossly incompetent, and the one who expected to ride a vaccine to victory over the coronavirus. In other words, Donald Trump might very well have been re-elected if he had handled COVID responsibly. And while Joe...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Once Upon a Time, the GOP Backed More People Voting]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/once-upon-a-time-the-gop-actually-backed-more-people-voting/ar-BB1eRNWh</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Old enough to fight, old enough to vote. That was the battle cry that 50 years ago won 18-year-olds the right to vote. March 23 is the golden anniversary of the passage in the House of Representatives of the 26th Amendment, which extended the franchise to 11 million young Americans age...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Don't Want to Run for the Senate, and It Will Screw Them]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/stacey-abrams-and-other-top-democrats-look-longingly-at-the-white-house-but-loathe-the-senate?ref=home</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats are reluctant to run for a seat in an institution controlled by the loathsome Mitch McConnell, who has stripped away much of what drew politicians to the Senate.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McConnell Races to Complete Trump's Judicial Takeover]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-just-brought-scott-pruitt-protege-patrick-wyrick-one-big-step-closer-to-a-seat-on-the-supreme-court?ref=home</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[McConnell isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t just envisioning a federal bench firmly on the right to steer the country for generations to come; he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s racing to seat its judges.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pat Caddell's Political Evolution: From Carter to Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-pat-caddells-political-life-took-him-from-jimmy-carter-to-donald-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The pollster who won Carter the White House and created Bulworth with Beatty ended his life a MAGA man.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi's Last Stand]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/nancy-pelosis-last-stand?ref=home</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The only woman to lead a political party in Congress had planned to call it a career after Clinton won. Now she'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s working to win the majority and become speaker again.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Poll Numbers Near a Tipping Point]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-numbers-near-a-tipping-point</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Public opinion can take off like a runaway train once it gets going. President Donald Trump, already polling lower than any of his predecessors in his first year, might soon be hearing the hoofbeats of history.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's Plan to Rule the Courts Until 2050]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-gops-plan-to-rule-the-courts-until-2050</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mitch McConnell says his top goal as Senate leader is to remake the judiciary, a higher priority even than tax reform.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' He'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s off to a terrifying start.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Terrifying that is, if you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re not a conservative Republican.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Order on Health Care Is Flat-Out Disgusting]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-executive-order-on-health-care-is-flat-out-disgusting</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like so much of what'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' says, the words he chooses to speak don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t tell the whole story. Who could oppose more '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'choice'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in health care coverage, especially when it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s better care and comes at lower cost, as the president proposes? The executive order...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Pin Their Hopes on War Heroes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/democrats-pin-their-hopes-on-war-heroes</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Seth Moulton is a former'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Marine Corps'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' officer, and he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s taken the lead in recruiting veterans to run for'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Congress'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' as'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Democrats, formally endorsing a dozen so far of the estimated thirty such candidates party officials expect to be on ballots in November in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Watergate Veterans: &quot;This Is History Repeating Itself&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/watergate-veterans-this-is-history-repeating-itself</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t work back then, and the consensus among three Watergate insiders interviewed by The Daily Beast is that it won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t work now. Just as the Saturday Night Massacre in October 1973 marked the beginning of the end for President Nixon, who resigned in August 1974, President...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Medicaid Delivers as Obamacare Survives]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/medicaid-delivers-as-obamacare-survives</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/medicaid-delivers-as-obamacare-survives]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Medicaid got a reprieve from the budget axe with the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' GOP'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s failure so far to repeal, let alone replace,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Obamacare. Suddenly, the program for the poor that began in 1965 seems less like a scapegoat for politicians looking to score rhetorical points and to shore up state budgets,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What It's Like to Defend a President Under Siege]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/lanny-davis-recalls-what-its-like-to-defend-a-president-under-siege</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/lanny-davis-recalls-what-its-like-to-defend-a-president-under-siege]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In what became famous last words, lawyer Lanny Davis told President'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Clintonhe would be leaving his post in a month as special'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' White House'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' counsel because his wife was pregnant, he needed to be at home, and besides, everything was quiet. The campaign finance investigation into...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats' Civil War in Virginia]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/16/democrats-collide-as-tom-perriello-and-ralph-northam-face-off-in-virginia</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 2016 all over again in the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Virginia'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' gubernatorial primary, as'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Bernie Sanders'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Elizabeth Warren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' are backing populist and super-charged campaigner'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Tom Perriello'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' while the state'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s two senators,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Mark Warner'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and Tom Kaine, are with Ralph Northam, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Trump's Quiet Bid to Kill Obama's Legacy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/21/president-trump-s-quiet-bid-to-kill-president-obama-s-legacy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It must be shocking for a president elected on his promise to rack up so many wins that we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d tire of winning to approach the 100-day mark with no real legislative achievement. White House aides desperate to load up the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s scorecard are claiming a bevy of rollbacks of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hard-Luck Hillary's 2nd Case of the Inaugural Blues]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/19/hard-luck-hillary-clinton-s-second-case-of-the-inaugural-blues.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How hard it must be for Hillary Clinton to sit next to Bill on the inaugural platform for the second time as an also-ran.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' She'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a good soldier, and she'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll carry it off with the grace of a former First Lady, but if there were a thought bubble over her head, it would say,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton's Journey--and Ours]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/08/hillary-clinton-s-journey-and-ours.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/08/hillary-clinton-s-journey-and-ours.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??ve talked about a woman president for 60 years. She was supposed to be perfect. Hillary isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??t that. But she'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s the one who made it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??she must have something.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No, Hillary Clinton's Emails Aren't Like Watergate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/31/no-hillary-clinton-s-emails-aren-t-like-watergate-nothing-is.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Watergate analogy is so overused that Donald Trump gets away with saying the Hillary Clinton email scandal is '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'worse than Watergate,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and voters believe him. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not true. Watergate was a genuine constitutional crisis with a president who had committed at least one...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Attacks Help Clinton Forge Truce in Her War w/Media]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/12/donald-trump-attacks-help-hillary-clinton-forge-truce-in-her-long-war-with-the-media.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By again airing the Clintons'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? dirty old laundry, Trump risks putting her back in a more sympathetic light.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton Isn't Sick. You Are.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/12/ageism-and-sexism-yes-but-a-lack-of-transparency-too.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Older men look distinguished. Older women, well'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';' The deck is stacked against Clinton here. All the more reason to get it all out there.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Woman Who Opposed Women's Rights]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/06/goodbye-to-phyllis-schlafly-the-equal-rights-hating-trump-loving-culture-warrior.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conservatives loved her. She spoke her mind and defended traditional values.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Phyllis Schlafly is why we don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have an Equal Rights Amendment today. She single-handedly killed it in the 1970s by appealing to primal fears over unisex bathrooms and women in combat, issues that four...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John McLaughlin, TV's Original Tough Political Talker]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/16/saying-goodbye-to-john-mclaughlin-tv-s-original-tough-political-talker.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If there were a Mount Olympus for talk-show hosts, John McLaughlin would be on it. He was the first to recognize the value of combative political talk on television when he launched the McLaughlin Group in the early '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'80s. After 34 years of never missing a show, his moderator'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Confident Clinton Taunts 'Little' Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/29/confident-clinton-taunts-little-trump.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton comes across as a self-confident leader, a woman with the knowledge, the stature, and the demeanor to command the greatest military in the world. After four days of Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and some Republicans, too'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'extolling the historic nature of a woman receiving a major...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Farewell to Hollywood's Great White House Romance]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/06/always-true-to-herself-first-lady-nancy-reagan-passes-away.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nancy Reagan became first lady during the height of the feminist movement, and women who were battling for their rights in a male-dominated world saw her as an anachronism. Reagan said her life began when she met her husband. The adoring look she focused on her Ronnie when they were in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No, Biden Is Not a Supreme Court Hypocrite]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/03/no-joe-biden-is-not-a-supreme-court-hypocrite.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a mighty thin reed that Republican leaders hang onto when they selectively cite then-Sen. Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s remarks from 24 years ago as evidence to deny any Obama appointee to the Supreme Court a fair hearing and a vote. President Obama is right in saying, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'We all know...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Simple and Solemn, Inside Scalia's Funeral]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/20/simple-and-solemn-inside-scalia-s-funeral.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eleanor Clift</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The conservative firebrand wanted no eulogies, so things were kept traditional at the funeral mass led by his son, Father Paul Scalia.]]></description>
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