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<title><![CDATA[Gerald Seib - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15065.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Gerald Seib]]></description><category domain="15065">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Misunderstood Consequences of Jimmy Carter&rsquo;s Presidency]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In showing that an outsider can win, he paved the way for Reagan and Trump]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Debt Sink the American Empire?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After growing for decades, this year the U.S. debt will roughly match its GDP. Throughout history, nations that blithely piled up their obligations have eventually met unhappy ends.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Could a Third Party Finally Do It?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many Americans dread the prospect of a 2020 presidential rematch and want an alternative, but complications abound]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can the GOP Become a Real Working-Class Party?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some Republicans want the party to break from its longtime free-market agenda and focus instead on the needs and frustrations of workers. Others see danger in moving away from the legacy of Reagan.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Rode Waves of Populism Until They Crashed the Party]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Donald Trump rode down an escalator at Trump Tower to launch his presidential campaign in June 2015, he began galvanizing a populist version of the Republican Party.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Find Themselves Short of Fresh New Faces]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pelosi and Reid, both 74, Will Stay in Power in Congress; 2016 Frontrunner Hillary Clinton Is 67]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Eric Cantor Out in Tea Party Shocker]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the Speaker-in-waiting, was defeated Tuesday in a primary election by a little-known conservative economics professor, David Brat, in one of the most stunning upsets in modern political history.Brat defeated Cantor, a six-term incumbent, despite...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Democrats, Midterm Peril Lies in the Public's Mood]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For Democrats, the 2010 midterm election was like a bad dream, one not to be repeated. So here is reason for Democrats to sleep uneasily right now: Public attitudes today are remarkably similar to those that prevailed just before that election disaster.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Economic Anxiety Shadows State of Union]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Four times, President Barack Obama has stood in the well of the House of Representatives and delivered a State of the Union address"'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and four times, economic anxieties have largely overshadowed his efforts to push a broad agenda.Tuesday night he makes his fifth such address"'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the State...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tough Loss Leaves GOP at a Crossroads]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203347104578099361429417912.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_election_leftTopStories</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A campaign year that began with great hope for Republicans, who had ample reason to think they could finish Election Night in full control of all Washington's levers of power, instead ended Tuesday night with the GOP in a cloud of gloom.A Democratic president who ran with the national...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Close Race That Could Go Either Way]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The presidential campaign has wrapped up pretty much the way smart folks in both parties expected all along: It's close, with the outcome dependent more on whose partisans are loyal on Election Day than on how many voters changed their minds along the way. Obama and Romney are scrambling...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Close Race With Six Weeks Remaining]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here's a news flash from the campaign front: The election isn't over yet, and Mitt Romney still could win. This may seem like a statement of the obvious, and it won't come as a surprise to those inside either the Romney campaign or that of President Barack Obama. They know this remains a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran Is Becoming Election Wild Card]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The calendar says the next big events in the presidential campaign are primaries Tuesday in Michigan and Arizona, followed by the Super Tuesday contests in 10 states a week later.Which is true enough. But here are some equally important political markers just ahead: the arrival of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Insurgents vs. the Establishment]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney, welcome to John Boehner's world. Both men - one the presidential candidate just stung in South Carolina, the other the speaker of the House'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'are fairly conventional leaders attempting to ride herd on a restless Republican Party that seems more interested in insurgent...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Solid Win That Came at a Price]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney's comfortable victory in New Hampshire's primary poses an intriguing question going forward:Which is the more important outcome, the fact that New Hampshire solidified his status as unquestioned front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, or the fact that New...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?']]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama, who made history in 2008 by becoming the first African-American elected president, would like to notch another historic achievement next year.He will try to win re-election while likely saddled with a higher unemployment rate than any other president seeking a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Key 2012 Debate: Federal Spending &amp; Economic Growth]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304906004576369392955094216.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A dreary U.S. jobs report released last week has driven home what most political insiders already thought: The presidential election of 2012 will be largely about the economy, particularly how high the unemployment rate is on Election Day.Yet joblessness is an incomplete and inadequate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is America Ready for President Pawlenty?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The TPaw moment has arrived.For the uninitiated, TPaw is Tim Pawlenty, recently departed governor of Minnesota and one Republican who's neither coy nor reticent about running for president. He formally launched his candidacy with a speech in Iowa Monday.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Faces Bigger Mideast Challenges Than al-Qaeda]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Important as the death of Osama bin Laden may be, disposing of al Qaeda's murderous leader wasn't the most important goal for U.S. foreign policy. Actually, it hasn't been for some time.Instead, the al Qaeda question that burned so deeply into America's soul a decade ago has been...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Interest on the Debt: A Quiet Cancer Grows]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Washington's leaders need a reason to get serious about the long-term-deficit problem'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'now'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'here it is.There is a cancer eating away at the budget from within, one that steadily drains American wealth, sends much of it overseas and only gets worse over time. It is the interest...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Political Math: Washington - Money = Plus for States]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The federal government isn't simply bleeding money. Because of its addiction to red ink, it's bleeding power, which is starting to flow away from the nation's capital and out to the states. This is the little-recognized reality behind the remarkable political upheaval being seen in state...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A New Generation of GOP Legislators]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The House of Representatives won't undergo merely a partisan change when the new Congress convenes on Wednesday. It will, in many ways, undergo a generational change as well.A new and younger set of Republicans lawmakers will move in when their party takes control of the House. Perhaps...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Massive Swing by Independent Voters]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704462704575590510679315310.html?mod=WSJ_ele_main</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Election Day turned out to be Independents Day for Republicans.A massive swing by independent voters propelled the Republican Party  to a series of key victories, bringing the GOP back from a near-death  experience just two years ago, and delivering a rebuke to the president  who rode...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Voters' Sour Mood is Driving This Election]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303339504575565811875371180.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Understanding this year's big midterm election isn't so hard after all.Two numbers from a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'46 and 48'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'tell you all you need to know.The first is the percentage of voters who think the health-care overhaul was a bad idea, which shows how that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It Isn't Just Lost Jobs - It's the Lost Jobs Machine]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703431604575467484046408418.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two basic facts will tell you most of what you need to know about the political picture today.Fact One: The unemployment rate is the most important of all leading political indicators.Fact Two: If the August unemployment number to be announced Friday tops]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beneath Iraq, Afghan, Israel Policy: Iran, Iran, Iran]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704323704575461594233642092.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When President Barack Obama speaks to the nation Tuesday night about Iraq, he'll be marking the removal of American combat troops from that nation, an important milestone. But his address will signify something much broader as well.This week's Iraq moment means that Mr. Obama now has, to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Voter Volatility at Historic Levels]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's becoming increasingly clear that Americans aren't simply in the  midst of hard times. They are in the midst of one of the most volatile  political environments since World War II.The  immediate cause of this volatility is clear enough to see. Just a few  months ago, there was a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rust Belt Offers GOP Chance to Regain Policy Shine]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Back in the 1990s, when the political world was fascinated by Newt Gingrich and his band of revolutionaries storming to power in Congress, the bulwark of their Republican party actually could be found elsewhere, far from Washington.The GOP's real strength in those days was in the states...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Lack Momentum, Not Cash]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a political campaign, money and momentum are both nice to have. In this year's race for control of the House of Representatives, we'll find out which is more important.Heading into the fall campaign season, most would agree that Republicans have momentum on their side. They are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Women Candidates Come Into Their Own]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald Seib</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The political world is big on "year of" labels, and 2010 has already provided plenty of them: year of the angry voter, year of the outsider, year of the tea party.Then along came Tuesday's U.S. primaries, establishing another: the year of the woman. It's in some ways the least expected...]]></description>
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