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<title><![CDATA[Bob Shrum - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15487.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Bob Shrum]]></description><category domain="15487">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Comeback Kid: Obama Delivers in Debate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/17/robert-shrum-obama-had-everything-on-the-line-and-delivered-while-romney-sputtered.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Wow. You didn&rsquo;t need a poll to tell you what happened, but the instant surveys exploded in a geyser of good news for President Obama. For example, in Colorado, in a Public Policy Polling sample that was 3 percent more Republican, respondents rated the President the winner 48 to 44...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Bernanke Pull a John Roberts?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/17/can-ben-bernanke-like-john-roberts-ignore-political-pressure-and-do-his-job.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Bush financial collapse of 2008 sealed the election of Barack Obama. Despite the apparent doldrums of recent months and predictions of doom or increasing danger for the now-incumbent president, an unexpected pick-up in the recovery may yet leave Mitt Romney high and dry as a rising...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John Roberts Changes His Legacy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/28/obamacare-supreme-court-ruling-john-roberts-changes-his-legacy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My friend Laurence Tribe, the nation&#194;&#146;s leading constitutional scholar who once had a student named John Roberts in his Harvard Law School class, had predicted the outcome.In the face of the overwhelming consensus that the Supreme Court would strike down the individual mandate at the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney Is a Lot Like Thomas E. Dewey]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/18/mitt-romney-is-a-lot-like-thomas-e-dewey-the-equivocating-loser-to-truman.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is W. Mitt Romney morphing into Thomas E. Dewey, the 1948 Republican nominee who famously - and surprisingly to everyone except Harry Truman - was confounded and defeated by Truman&rsquo;s populist campaign?Look at Romney&rsquo;s response to Obama&rsquo;s profoundly decent and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Has a Powerful Case Against Romney]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/228527/the-unnecessarily-frenzied-handwringing-over-barack-biden-and-bain</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We are in the season of political skywriting &mdash; of stories that capture attention, but not the decisive realities of the presidential contest. For all but tabloid purposes, why pay attention to the ravings of Donald Trump &mdash; except to score a minor point against Mitt Romney for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In the Book of Romney, Bain Is Just Chapter One]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/228222/bain-is-just-chapter-one-in-the-book-of-romney</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The real Mitt Romney is finally running for president &mdash; but not in his own first television spot, a superficial checklist of issues which provides no insight into who he is or what makes him tick. It's the Obama commercial on Bain and the destruction of GST Steel that starkly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney Is the Dorian Gray of 2012]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/226950/mitt-romney-is-the-dorian-gray-of-2012</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As he finally claims the nomination that was his all along, but which was so reluctantly yielded to him, Mitt Romney enters his Etch A Sketch period. He may twist the knobs to try and shift his professed beliefs as easily as the aluminum granules on the screen of one of the last...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Tea Partier Justices Give Obama 2nd Term?]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/226270/will-a-tea-party-supreme-court-guarantee-obama-a-second-term</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Recall the scorn toward health reform dripping from the lips of Injustice Antonin Scalia. Or think of the tight-lipped Clarence Thomas, who could send a mannequin to sit in his place at the court's oral arguments for all the difference his brooding presence makes. Along with the more...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It Was a Super Tuesday for Democrats]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/225290/it-was-a-super-tuesday-for-democrats</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican non-romance with Mitt Romney reminds me of Henry VIII's uncharacteristically reluctant marriage to Anne of Cleves - the king's fourth wife. She was a minor German princess who, to the king's advisers, looked like the ideal political match. A dubious Henry resisted &mdash;...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Increasingly Worthless GOP Nomination]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/224776/the-increasingly-worthless-gop-nomination</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By all accounts, Mitt Romney won what may be the last Republican presidential debate. Little good it will do him if in the process he suffers the loss of the general election.Romney's performance on Wednesday in Arizona was both adequate and alienating. Spraying out a fusillade of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney Is the Only Adult in the Room]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/221341/mitt-romney-is-the-only-adult-in-the-room/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Six weeks ago, I wrote that in the GOP race for the presidential nomination, Mitt Romney's the one &mdash; mostly because the other candidates have proved to be implausible or utterly inconceivable. And after Wednesday's Michigan debate, we now know with even more certainty who the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Populism Is Obama's Path to Victory]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/220742/populism-is-obamas-path-to-victory</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president must be doing something right. He's now getting advice (from all the wrong quarters) that he ought to stop standing up for the people, not the privileged. Of course, such arguments largely rest on pre-cast assumptions and self-serving calculations.First out of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Field Is Intolerant, Bigoted]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/220143/the-gops-sad-intolerant-2012-field</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's a good reason for the otherwise inexplicable reality that in most surveys President Obama, despite his currently desiccated job approval ratings, leads all but one of his Republican rivals &mdash; and even against him, the president nonetheless runs neck and neck.And there's a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans - and Democrats - Praying for Perry]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/219646/praying-for-rick-perry</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, Democrats were quietly praying for Rick Perry &mdash; the instant Republican frontrunner who, they assumed with mounting evidence, would prove to be a fading nag of a GOP nominee coming around the final turn to November 2012. Gallup showed Perry losing nationally to Obama...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Is on Track for a Second Term]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/216081/is-obamas-re-election-bid-really-in-trouble</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This was Weiner&#194;&#146;s week, although not in the way the perennially  frenetic congressman had long coveted. But Weiner&#194;&#146;s moment will pass,  just as he soon will, even as the juvenilia of his tweeted private parts  and pecs linger uncomfortably in memory and irrepressibly among the  late...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time Is Running Out for Republicans]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/215571/why-republicans-cant-find-a-decent-presidential-candidate</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Shortly after Donald Trump, the political apprentice in the 2012 line  up, was fired as his poll numbers receded faster than his real  hairline, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels became the latest candidate to flee  the contest. Unlike The Donald, Daniels was coveted by the GOP  establishment....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ignore the President's Hysterical Critics]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/213526/it-really-is-about-regime-change-in-libya</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The commentary on the president&rsquo;s course in Libya has been instinctively  adversarial. Much of the press may be compensating for its cheerleading  or supine acquiescence in the fraud of the Iraq War. So reporters chase  administration officials around briefing rooms and TV studios,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's Bizarro Economics]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/213027/the-gops-bizarro-economics</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the economy finally, plainly on the mend, the Republican  response - perhaps predictable from the party of death panels - is to  deploy a bodyguard of lies&#42; about both the causes of the crash and the  reasons for the recovery.Up in New Hampshire last weekend, the latest...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The End of the New Deal?]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/212467/the-end-of-the-new-deal</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America was rescued from the Great Depression by the New Deal &mdash; and then  pushed back into recession when Franklin Roosevelt briefly and  prematurely moved toward a balanced budget. Three-quarters of a century  later, a second depression was averted by an act of government that did...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Britain Proves Slashing Spending Hurts Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/211762/britain-proves-the-folly-of-gop-economics</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the Tory enclave of Eton, the exclusive private school whose  graduates now dominate the British Cabinet, they drink tea &mdash; and  politically and economically, it's not terribly different from the  faux-populist American brew. So the Etonian Conservatives came to office  last year...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Was Pitch Perfect, Palin is Tone Deaf]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/211029/taking-sarah-palin-seriously</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president's eloquence in Tucson spoke to the heart of America. And his appeal to our best instincts speaks for itself.Just hours before, from the near-polar region, we heard the  near-polar opposite. Sarah Palin's belated apologia was a sharp-edged  affirmation of the worst in her...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rewrite the Script on Organ-Grinder Congress]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/210851/the-organ-grinder-congress</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The circus that opened this week in Washington is no mere spectacle; it  ought to be taken seriously. For as we learned in the summer of death  panels, the most far-fetched leaps of fantasy can become a powerful  political force when they dominate otherwise sparse news cycles. Indeed ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Barack Obama Will Be Back on Top]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/209271/barack-obama-will-be-back-on-top</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Seldom have so many observers from so many precincts in the press and so  many points on the political spectrum converged so unanimously on a  verdict writing off a president &mdash; except, of course, when their  counterparts called Ronald Reagan a "one-year phenomenon" and declared...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hold on House Didn't Last, But Legislation Will]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/209011/pelosi-delivered</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let us now praise Nancy Pelosi. Long after the midterm stories have faded, and the predictions of the  president's political demise prove as facile and false as they  were with Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, history will accord Pelosi an  unprecedented scale of achievement for a House...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Plotting Hillary's Future]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/207958/plotting-hillarys-future</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is a political squall in an autumn of discontent, sparked by a provocative question from David Gregory on Meet the Press.  He asked Barack Obama&rsquo;s 2008 campaign manager, David Plouffe, if he  envisioned a primary challenge from Hillary Clinton to Obama's  renomination in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Will Hold the House and Senate]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/207701/democrats-will-hold-the-house-and-senate</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Maybe I'm wrong. In fact, maybe I'm really, really wrong, which  is the reaction I hear when I dare even to broach this notion to  commentators and political strategists in both parties. So let me state  it plainly: I now think the Democrats will hold the Congress&mdash;yes, the  House...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time to Sound the Progressive Trumpet]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/207461/is-anyone-listening-to-obama</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For all the daily ritual surrounding his pronouncements, the panoply of  his office, and the 24-hour coverage from a coagulated media entourage,  it now seems undeniable that for the moment Americans aren&rsquo;t listening  to Barack Obama.Amid the gathering midterm storm, Obama, who ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Faustian Deal w/Tea Party Will Cost GOP Dearly]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/207195/republicans-serve-the-devil-his-tea</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If elections have consequences, so do strategies of opportunism that hitch a ride on popular paranoia. From the day this President was inaugurated, the GOP has fed off the forces that coalesced into the angry astringency of the Tea Party movement.First the GOP maintained lockstep...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[LBJ's Pens and Obama's Peril]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/205568/lbjs-pens-and-obamas-peril</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One wall of the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas celebrates "the thousand  laws" Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, and a showcase proudly displays  legions of pens, row upon row, which he used to sign the various  measures. Many of the laws were nation-changing in their sweep and  impact...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Old Bigotry Remains in GOP, Tea Parties]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/205271/obama-appeasement-and-the-race-baiters</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1972, Edmund Muskie, a liberal Senator from Maine and the  front-runner for the Democratic nomination, sparked headlines when he  said he couldn&rsquo;t consider Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley for vice  president because the country wasn&rsquo;t ready for a &ldquo;black&rdquo; in the...]]></description>
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