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<title><![CDATA[Sam Youngman - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15771.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Sam Youngman]]></description><category domain="15771">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[KY: Lexington Mayor Jim Gray Running Against Rand Paul]]></title>
							<link>http://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article56605288.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Youngman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Lexington Mayor Jim Gray filed to run for the U.S. Senate Tuesday morning as a Democrat, declaring his candidacy to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul on the day of Kentucky's filing deadline.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[KY-6: Democrat Nancy Jo Kemper to Run for Andy Barr's Seat]]></title>
							<link>http://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article55826180.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Youngman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Flanked by Democratic allies, Nancy Jo Kemper, a Woodford County minister, filed paperwork Thursday morning to begin her campaign against 6th District U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, R-Lexington.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Death Watch for Rand Paul's Campaign]]></title>
							<link>http://www.kentucky.com/2015/09/26/4058369_death-watch-for-rand-paul-campaign.html?rh=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Youngman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rand Paul was right. In January 2014, the day after The Atlantic anointed Paul, Kentucky&rsquo;s junior U.S. Senator, as the Republican frontrunner in the 2016 presidential race, Paul told the Herald-Leader &ldquo;it&rsquo;s still too early probably to talk about things like...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fear and Loathing at Fancy Farm]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/03/fear-and-loathing-at-fancy-farm-ky.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Youngman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell rolled up his sleeves and walked to the podium on stage at the brand new pavilion at Kentucky's annual Fancy Farm picnic.As McConnell geared up to rail against President Barack Obama and his "Kentucky candidate" Democrat Alison Lundergan...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Jesse Benton Unite Republicans?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/28/can-the-traitor-jesse-benton-unite-the-gop.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Youngman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Jesse Benton moved to Kentucky, he didn&rsquo;t think he would ever have to choose between them.But in early 2013, Benton, the former aide to Rep. Ron Paul, Sen. Rand Paul, and now campaign manager to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, was booed as he walked to the bathroom in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kentucky's Anti-Mitch McConnell]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/08/tea-partier-matt-bevin-is-selling-himself-as-the-anti-mitch-mcconnell.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Youngman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To spend time around Matt Bevin, the Louisville businessman challenging Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in the Kentucky race for U.S. Senate, is to hear some Olympic-level name-butchering.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re in Kentucky, dude,&rdquo; Bevin said. &ldquo;How many variations of Bevin...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Some Black Voters Are Listening to Paul]]></title>
							<link>http://www.kentucky.com/2013/12/09/2979825/political-paddock-why-some-black.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Youngman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Going by conventional wisdom and modern political party tendencies, it's hard to imagine a more unlikely setting.But there was U.S. Sen. Rand Paul last Thursday, sitting in a leather wingback chair, a large collection of African ceremonial masks on the wall to his left, as he discussed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Not to Beat Mitch McConnell]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/30/alison-grimes-will-have-to-step-it-up-to-beat-mitch-mcconnell.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Youngman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Things got heated in the gathering area behind the workshop of Guthrie Farms outside Lexington, Kentucky.Not when Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes heard repeated concerns about regulations forcing farmers to take care of &ldquo;the Mexicans&rdquo; or after the laughter...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Final South Carolina Debate Looms Large]]></title>
							<link>http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/19/us-usa-campaign-debate-idUSTRE80I21G20120119</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Youngman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republican presidential candidates meet again on Thursday for perhaps the most crucial debate yet in the 2012 campaign, with front-runner Mitt Romney beginning to look shaky and likely to face fire from nearest challenger Newt Gingrich.It is the final chance for rivals to chip away at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama: Victim or Professional Victim?]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/obama-rerun/186867-obama-victim-or-professional-victim</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Youngman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Ronald Reagan wouldn&rsquo;t be sitting here.&rdquo; &mdash; President Obama during the debt-ceiling debate. Those words from the July debt-ceiling standoff offers perhaps the best glimpse into how the unknowable Obama thinks Congress sees him.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Camp: Romney &amp; Perry Out of Mainstream]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/185027-obama-campaign-memo-assails-gop-candidates</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Youngman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama's campaign said in a memo Monday that the Republican candidates vying for the president's job are running to the extreme right of the party, embracing policies that Americans oppose."From economics to immigration, Gov. Perry, Gov. Romney and the Republican field have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Team Obama Is Smiling Again]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/obama-rerun/181347-obamas-2012-reelection-stimulus</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Youngman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it really doesn&rsquo;t matter if you win or lose, it&rsquo;s how you play the game. Team Obama is banking on it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Targets GOP for Fall Offensive]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/sam-youngman/178843-obama-targets-gop-for-fall-offensive</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Youngman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Kill the body, and the head will die.&rdquo; &mdash; Joe FrazierPresident Obama is preparing to fight a political war this fall on two fronts &mdash; the first against Republicans who want his job and the second against Republicans who want to make his job more difficult.Obama is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama and the Quicksand Summer]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/obama-rerun/176167-obama-and-the-quicksand-summer</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Youngman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's not as bad as it looks for President Obama. It's much, much worse. July and August are looking like a summer of quicksand for the president, and there is nobody left to throw him a rope.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[White House: Lot for Dems to Love in Deal]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/174625-white-house-a-lot-for-dems-to-love-in-deal</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Youngman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Responding to criticism from liberal Democrats, White House officials  said Sunday night that the deal President Obama helped broker provides a  path to end the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy while protecting domestic  programs.The president won major concessions, officials said,  by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[July Is a Make or Break Month for Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/sam-youngman/169733-the-month-of-july-is-make-or-break-for-obama-2012</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Youngman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The yellow light isn&rsquo;t blinking only on getting a debt-ceiling deal  done &mdash; it&rsquo;s flashing on President Obama&rsquo;s reelection hopes, too.If  Obama and the debt deal face a yellow or red light at the end of July,  voters might not be willing to give him the green light...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Drop in Approval Comes at Bad Time for Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/obama-rerun/156889-obamas-approval-rating-falls-at-bad-time</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Youngman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama's approval ratings are plummeting, and the timing is terrible for the White House.Even as Obama skewered Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and the House GOP budget plan, his approval rating dipped in a Gallup poll to 41 percent, the lowest number yet of his presidency.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Makes Case for Financial Reform Bill]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/93773-obama-a-vote-for-reform-is-a-vote-to-stop-bailouts</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Youngman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama on Thursday made his case for financial regulatory reform mere blocks from the heart of the U.S. financial sector.Obama used his address in Manhattan to push back on Republican criticism that Democraticplans for financial reform are a ticket to endless bailouts,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Ready for Tough Talk on Wall Street]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/banking-financial-institutions/93565-obama-prepared-for-more-wall-street-tough-talk</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Youngman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama will likely hit Wall Street with another round of criticism in his speech Thursday.The president has grown increasingly harsher in tone when he speaks of the financial industry.White House spokesman Robert Gibbs hinted Wednesday that Wall Street could be subject to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Tries to Reclaim Health Debate - Again]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/57473-obama-prepares-to-try-to-reclaim-health-debate-again</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Youngman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#194;&#151; President Obama returned to the White House from his summer break on Sunday determined to jump-start his struggling presidency by reasserting command of the health care debate and recalibrating expectations that some advisers believe got away from him.A blog from The New...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Short Election Night May End Long Campaign]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/short-election-night-may-end-marathon-campaign-2008-11-03.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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