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<title><![CDATA[Patrick O&apos;Connor - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15526.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Patrick O&apos;Connor]]></description><category domain="15526">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Rubio Straddles Line Between Insider, Outsider]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick O&apos;Connor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[DAVENPORT, Iowa&mdash;Florida Sen. Marco Rubio likes to remind GOP primary voters of the long odds he faced running for the Senate in 2010.&ldquo;Everybody in the Republican establishment came forward and said, &lsquo;You can&rsquo;t run, it&rsquo;s not your turn, you&rsquo;ve got to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Low Profile Fits Marco Rubio's Strategy]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick O&apos;Connor</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bush Foreign Policy Seen Leaning Toward Father]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick O&apos;Connor</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Boehner Ties Deal to Talks on Debt Limit]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick O&apos;Connor</author>
							<description><![CDATA["The votes are not in the House to pass a clean debt limit, and the president is risking default by not having a conversation with us," Mr. Boehner told ABC in his first interview since the shutdown began. "I'm not going to raise the debt limit without a serious conversation about...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP's Hensarling Puts Wall St. on Edge]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick O&apos;Connor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON&mdash;During Jeb Hensarling's first congressional bid, a man at a campaign stop in Athens, Texas, asked the Republican if he was "pro-business.""No," the candidate replied, drawing curious stares from local business leaders who had gathered to hear him speak, a former...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Problem With Mitt's Education Plan]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Contrite Giuliani Weighs New Bid]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick O&apos;Connor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rudy Giuliani said Thursday he made a mistake in 2008 by not dedicating  more time to campaigning one-on-one with New Hampshire voters. But he  suggested he may ask them to give him a second look.The former New York City mayor, starting a swing through the first  presidential primary...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Top Races to Watch]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick O&apos;Connor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Defeating Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada was the Republicans' top priority this year, making this down-to-the-wire contest the marquee race in the country.It has been 58 years since a Senate majority leader lost in the general election&mdash;Republican John Thune beat South...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Centrist Democrats Not Sold on Reform Plans]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick O&apos;Connor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Senate Democrats took their newfound momentum for health reform into closed-door talks with White House aides Wednesday but still faced a months-old problem: centrist Democrats who aren&rsquo;t sold on Obama-style reform even now.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cantor's GOP Rebranding Effort Flames Out]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick O&apos;Connor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) generated the kind of buzz other politicians covet when he launched his bid to help rebrand the Republican Party last spring.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Search for Villains on Health Care]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick O&apos;Connor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With their health care plans in a holding pattern &mdash; and no George W. Bush to kick around anymore &mdash; Democrats are casting about for somebody to blame. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn says that Republicans have &ldquo;perfected &lsquo;just say no.&rsquo;&rdquo; House Speaker...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chaos Gives Speaker Pelosi a Major Victory]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick O&apos;Connor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After lawmakers had devoured the last of the Kalua Pig at last Thursday night&rsquo;s White House Luau, Nancy Pelosi summoned her team back to the Capitol &mdash; to ensure the climate change bill wasn&rsquo;t the next thing roasted on the spit.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Waxman's Win a Victory for Environmentalists]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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