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<title><![CDATA[Mark Schmitt - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15642.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Mark Schmitt]]></description><category domain="15642">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Is the Era of Big-Program Liberalism Over?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Schmitt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders and the policies he advocates may represent the future for many Democratic primary voters, but his basic theory of government is very traditional, dating to the New Deal. Mr. Sanders gets cheers for these ideas, as he did from voters in New Hampshire&rsquo;s Democratic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Lost Generation of Democrats]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/opinion/campaign-stops/a-lost-generation-of-democrats.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Schmitt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Republicans never tire of pointing out, the Democratic candidates for president are old.The average age of the leaders, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders, is 71, older than Ronald Reagan was during his successful 1980 campaign.The Republican candidates average 57, with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Finally, GOP Finds Its New Welfare Queens]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/98656/unemployment-insurance-welfare-gop</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Schmitt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you&#194;&#146;ve been watching the Republican presidential debates, you&#194;&#146;ve likely heard a surprising amount of talk about welfare reform. Both Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum identify the 1996 law, which the Republican Congress eventually forced President Clinton to sign, as their signature...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No One's Eliminating Cabinet Departments]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/97327/perry-debate-oops-cabinet-energy-commerce</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Schmitt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rick Perry&rsquo;s &ldquo;Oops&rdquo; on Wednesday joined the small canon of legendary phrases from presidential debates, right up there with &ldquo;You&rsquo;re no Jack Kennedy.&rdquo; His inability to remember one of the three government agencies he would promise to eliminate as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Deflation of the Obama Bubble]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonreview.net/BR36.4/mark_schmitt_all_about_barack_obama_books_review.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Schmitt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A month before the 2008 presidential election, the cover of The American Prospect,  which I edited at the time, depicted an empty Oval Office and the  headline, &ldquo;The President Doesn&rsquo;t Matter (As Much As You Think).&rdquo; Inside  we ran articles about the institutions of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Southern Discomfort]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=southern_discomfort</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Schmitt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his 2006 book, Whistling Past Dixie, political scientist Tom  Schaller argued that the Democratic Party should learn to ignore the  South. Presidential elections and congressional majorities could be won  without the region, and the Mountain West was the land of political ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[1970s: When It All Went Wrong]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=when_it_all_went_wrong</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Schmitt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The last years of the 1970s, as depicted in novels such as Ann Beattie's Falling in Place, were a hazy, anxious time. Skylab was falling (a powerful metaphor in Beattie's hands), Three Mile Island was melting, and people were literally dazed and confused, nervously drifting away from one...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Caused Economic Uncertainty]]></title>
							<link>http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=uncertainly_wrong</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Schmitt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The buzzword of this election year, at least for Republicans, is "uncertainty." House Republican Leader John Boehner uses the word at every opportunity: "Small-business operators ... are filled with massive uncertainty." "When there is that much uncertainty employers just freeze. ......]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Still More Reagan Than Carter]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=a_tale_of_three_presidencies</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Schmitt</author>
							<description><![CDATA["The Unnecessary Fall," John Judis' premature diagnosis of the demise of the Obama administration published in The New Republic, has generated a lot of approving buzz, even though it is mostly familiar. The thesis that Obama should have asked for a bigger stimulus, should have been more...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Would a GOP Majority Do Next?]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=what_will_a_republican_majority_do_next</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Schmitt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) (Flickr/republicanconference)If, as predicted, the Republicans take control of the House, or both houses of Congress, this November, will they: 1) shut down the government? 2) propose massive budget cuts? 3) begin proceedings leading toward impeachment of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Moving on to Obama's Next Phase]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_next_phase</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Schmitt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New political eras have a kind of Robert's Rules of Order rhythm to them. First on the agenda: old business. Then on to the new.And that's the point at which we find ourselves in the Obama era -- we are about to bring the unfinished business to a close and move on to the new stuff. After...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tea Party Movement Will Flame Out]]></title>
							<link>http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_end_of_the_tea_party</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Schmitt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Michele Bachmann speaks at the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference. (Flickr/Gage Skidmore)As the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) overtook Washington this past week, the cheering for Dick Cheney, the sessions promoting "nullification" (the concept that states can...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Machinery of Progress]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=machinery_of_progress</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Schmitt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[(White House/Pete Souza)What President Barack Obama needs to do is .... No, let's try this again. The problem with Barack Obama is ....   Stop! I can't bear to read another column that starts like that, much less write one. As the administration's first year in office comes to an end,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A New Agenda for Tough Times]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=a_new_agenda_for_tough_times</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Schmitt</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mystery of the Right's Decline]]></title>
							<link>http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_mystery_of_the_right</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Schmitt</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The President's Dual Mission]]></title>
							<link>http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_dual_mission</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Schmitt</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Campaign Money Be Good?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=can_money__be_a_force_for_good</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Schmitt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Early last year, as the 2008 presidential campaign loomed on the horizon, campaign-finance experts and newspaper editorial boards warned preemptively of a "billion-dollar election." In a February 2007 editorial, The New York Times invoked Watergate to warn that such an expensive election...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Farewell to Words]]></title>
							<link>http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=a_farewell_to_words</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Schmitt</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Audacity of Patience]]></title>
							<link>http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_audacity_of_patience</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Schmitt</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Populism Without Pitchforks]]></title>
							<link>http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=populism_without_pitchforks</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the Republican Alliance Finally Breaking?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=is_the_republican_alliance_finally_breaking</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Schmitt</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did Hillary Crack the Working-Class Code?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=did_hillary_crack_the_white_workingclass_code</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Identity Politics Save the Right?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=can_identity_politics_save_the_right</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Schmitt</author>
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