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<title><![CDATA[Barry Casselman - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15626.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Barry Casselman]]></description><category domain="15626">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Europe in Panic Mode Over Trump Administration]]></title>
							<link>https://amac.us/newsline/society/europe-freaks-out/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Casselman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump's second term disrupts the global order, unsettling European allies with bold policy shifts and peace efforts.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Battle for the Senate: GOP Strength Being Underestimated?]]></title>
							<link>https://amac.us/newsline/elections/senate-races-in-a-photo-finish/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Casselman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 2024 Senate races are tightening, with polls potentially underestimating GOP strength in key battlegrounds.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Minnewisowa 2024]]></title>
							<link>https://amac.us/newsline/elections/minnewisowa-2024/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Casselman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When I invented the portmanteau Minnewisowa (Minnesota-Wisconsin-Iowa) in a 2004 op ed in The Washington Times, I did not anticipate the]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rain on Senate Democrats Is Now a Deluge]]></title>
							<link>https://amac.us/newsline/elections/the-rain-on-senate-democrats-is-now-a-deluge/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Casselman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the outset of the 2024 U.S. Senate campaign cycle, there was general agreement that eight seats held by Democrats would be in play.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Vice President Stefanik?]]></title>
							<link>https://amac.us/newsline/society/vice-president-stefanik/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Casselman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Congresswoman Elise Stefanik has recently emerged as one of the most outstanding contenders. She seems to check all of the political boxes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Speaker McCarthy Defies Media Predictions of Weakness]]></title>
							<link>https://amac.us/speaker-mccarthy-defies-media-predictions-of-weakness/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Casselman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As has so often been the case in recent media political forecasting, new Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is proving predictions of weakness and failure in his leading the small House majority to be off the mark.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dem 'Rebound' Is a Media-Created August Mirage]]></title>
							<link>https://amac.us/dem-rebound-is-an-august-mirage/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Casselman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is considerable emotional motivation for desperate Democrats and anxious Republicans to embrace or fear this mirage as the prospect]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Dump Biden Dilemma]]></title>
							<link>https://amac.us/democrats-dump-biden-dilemma/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Casselman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democrats have a problem. Their incumbent first-term president is so unpopular he is negatively affecting their party's prospects for the]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Big a Wave in November?]]></title>
							<link>https://amac.us/how-big-a-wave/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Casselman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There have been some recent op-eds suggesting that the national midterm elections, now only 7 months away, will not be a red tsunami in U.S.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Midterm Drama in the Midwest's 'Minnewisowa']]></title>
							<link>https://amac.us/midterm-drama-in-the-midwests-minnewisowa/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Casselman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Long edged out of the political spotlight by battleground states like Florida and Ohio, in recent years, the Upper Midwest has returned to the center stage of American politics'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'with formerly blue-leaning states like Wisconsin now the scene of fierce competition. Ahead of the 2022...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sudden Shift Has Democrats on Edge to Start 2022]]></title>
							<link>https://amac.us/sudden-shift-has-democrats-on-edge-to-start-2022/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Casselman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The new year has brought a sudden shift in the so-called mainstream punditry as they reluctantly realize that the ship of the Biden administration has plowed into an avoidable political iceberg, and is sinking fast.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Minnesota Finally Go Red?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/will-minnesota-finally-go-red/article/2009139</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Casselman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MinneapolisWhen Donald Trump stopped off in Minnesota the Sunday before the election, it raised eyebrows. No Republican had won the state since Richard Nixon in 1972. But two days later, the outcome was in doubt until late in the night. Hillary Clinton's 1.5 point margin over Trump was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ronald Trump Versus Hillary Mondale]]></title>
							<link>http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/09/ronald_trump_versus_hillary_mondale.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Casselman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To understand why Donald Trump probably won the first TV debate, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is necessary to revisit comments I made several days ago about the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' existence of two American English languages and those who speak them.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' I contended that one of those languages is spoken by an American'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Most Underestimated Man in DC?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/08/the_most_underestimated_man_in_dc.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Casselman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most underestimated man in Washington, D.C. has a very powerful position, and in an era of political stalemate in the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s capital, he has accomplished a relatively great deal. Nevertheless, his political opponents try to dismiss him, many of his supposed political allies...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Another Minnesota Miracle?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/another-minnesota-miracle_797369.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Casselman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1978, Republicans in Minnesota, astonishingly, won all three statewide races: both Senate seats and the governorship. It became known by DFLers (Democrats here run as Democratic-Farmer-Laborites) as the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Minnesota massacre.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Republicans preferred to call it their Minnesota...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why McCain is Floating Lieberman and Ridge]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/why_mccain_is_floating_lieberm.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Casselman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The pro-life community and Republican social conservatives are currently going through anxiety attacks over the "leaked" disclosures that John McCain has been "shopping:" former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge for his vice presidential choice, and his own public praise for Ridge and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Electoral Mega-State of MN, WI, IA]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/the_center_of_minnewisowa.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Casselman</author>
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