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<title><![CDATA[Mike Littwin - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16070.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Mike Littwin]]></description><category domain="16070">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Can 14th Amendment Block Trump From White House?]]></title>
							<link>https://coloradosun.com/2023/09/10/trump-14th-amendment-colorado-opinion-littwin/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A Colorado case may hold answers to the question of whether Trump's actions surrounding January 6 disqualify him from the ballot.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Won't CO Dems Pass an Assault Weapons Ban?]]></title>
							<link>https://coloradosun.com/2023/04/23/democrats-assault-weapons-politics-opinion-littwin/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You can start with Gov. Jared Polis, who opposed the assault weapons ban. And then go to those Democrats who lacked the will to oppose Polis.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Here's Betting That Coffman Has Georgia on His Mind]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/04/20/heres_betting_that_coffman_has_georgia_on_his_mind_133656.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you want some insight into what really happened in Georgia'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s inconclusive CD-6 special election, just keep an eye on Mike Coffman, Colorado'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s own CD-6 representative.
I guarantee Coffman understands it perfectly.
Coffman has proven that Democrats, even when running capable...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Plays a Grown-Up; Enemies of the People Swoon]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/03/01/trump_plays_a_grown-up_enemies_of_the_people_swoon_133236.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For an hour or so, Donald Trump acted like a normal adult. The nation was shocked, and much of the media was all aswoon. It was almost as if Trump were not just presidential, but, you know, the president.
In addressing a joint session of Congress, Trump delivered the long-awaited reset,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Donald, He Has Regrets]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/08/19/the_donald_he_has_regrets_131563.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump regrets to announce that you should forget about the old Donald Trump, the one who won the GOP nomination by occasionally bringing you personal pain -- the worst kind of pain, by the way -- and not only when you were doubled over in astonishment at his latest insult-comic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's New Strategy? Speak Softly and Say the Same Outrageous Things]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/08/16/trumps_new_strategy_speak_softly_and_say_the_same_outrageous_things_131526.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you watched Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s low-volume, slow-motion, NASCAR-on-yellow speech on foreign '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'policy,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' you now understand the problem.
Trump said many of the same headline-making ridiculous things he usually says, but he said them much more quietly and using his grown-up...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Ready to Face the Prospect That He Might Lose]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/08/13/trump_is_ready_to_face_the_prospect_that_he_might_lose_131500.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve reached that point in the campaign where everyone is suddenly afraid to state the obvious. What we need is a truth teller. Someone who all he does is tell the truth.
You know, like The Donald.
Asked whether his latest foray into campaign fabulism can possibly work, Trump says...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Was Trump Joking or is He Just a Really Sore Loser?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/08/10/was_trump_joking_or_is_he_just_a_really_sore_loser_131474.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was inevitable, I guess, that we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d finally get to the point in this presidential campaign when we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d be debating whether or not Donald Trump was advocating killing Hillary Clinton, which is a big step up from suggesting we make America great again by carrying some random...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mike Coffman Kinda Sorta &quot;Stands Up&quot; to Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/08/05/mike_coffman_kinda_sorta_stands_up_to_trump_131442.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump may have briefly left Colorado, to the relief of fire marshals throughout the state, but he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s coming back next week. And in any case, he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s still very much around in spirit. And if you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re not disturbed by his presence, you must not be a Republican running in a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Day One DNC -- How, 8 Years Later, FLOTUS Brought the House Down]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/07/26/day_one_dnc_--_how_8_years_later_flotus_brought_the_house_down_131333.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You might have been too distracted by how well crafted Michelle Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s game-saving speech was on Day One of the Democratic convention to have noticed the subtext, but, believe me, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a doozy.
This was Michelle Obama saying that America, right now, is the greatest country on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump is Right. This is a Dark and Frightening Time in America.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/07/22/donald_trump_is_right_this_is_a_dark_and_frightening_time_in_america__131294.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump is right. This is a dark and frightening time in America.
How else to describe the moment in which thousands of Republican delegates were deliriously cheering the notion that Trump, alone, can solve all our nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s problems, including those that exist only in an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[RNC Day Three -- How Ted Cruz Became the Most Reviled Person in the Room]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/07/21/rnc_day_three__how_ted_cruz_became_the_most_reviled_person_in_the_room_131271.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the third night of the Republican convention, Ted Cruz did the impossible. He replaced Hillary Clinton as the most reviled person in the room.
And the strangest thing, in this strangest of times, is that Cruz did it all by design.
Cruz is used to being reviled, of course. He has made...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[RNC Day Two -- Cory Gardner Opts Out of Trump's Coronation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/07/20/rnc_day_two_--_cory_gardner_opts_out_of_trumps_coronation_131258.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I have to give Cory Gardner credit. When faced with a choice, he stood up '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' or actually ducked out, but still pretty much the same thing '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' for principle.
OK, he wouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t say what the principle was exactly. And, being Cory Gardner, he didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t feel the need to explain...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[RNC Day One: Nixonian Rhetoric and a Bit of Chaos]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/07/19/rnc_day_one_nixonian_rhetoric_and_a_bit_of_chaos_131243.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Day One of the Republican National Convention was not so much about Making America Great Again as it was about the obvious corollary: America Really Stinks Now.
In other words, it's a dark, scary place that requires a strong (read: strong-man) president, who would not only make America...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Terror of the Nice Attack is a Test]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/07/15/the_terror_of_the_nice_attack_is_a_test_131211.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When you see Reuters photographer Eric Gaillard'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s photograph of the small body lying covered in the street, a child'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s doll at its side, whatever part of your heart that remains unbroken surely must break now.
It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the exact image that any terrorist hopes for: a symbol of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are We a Nation in the Midst of Crisis -- Just an Election Year?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/07/13/are_we_a_nation_in_the_midst_of_crisis__or_just_an_election_year_131190.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The question after Dallas, after Baton Rouge, after Falcon Heights, is whether we are a nation in the midst of crisis or simply a nation in the midst of a presidential campaign.
Hillary Clinton went to the Old State House in Springfield, Illinois, where Lincoln gave his "House Divided"...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Summer of Rage, Summer of Outrage]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/07/09/summer_of_rage_summer_of_outrage_131149.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The temptation is to say that we've reached a breaking point. That the center cannot hold. That, as The New York Post irresponsibly splashed across its front page, we're now in a civil war.
The truth is far more complicated than that. This is not 1968. Or 1861. A nation is not torn...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On a Bad Day for Clinton, Trump Still Loses]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/07/06/on_a_bad_day_for_clinton_trump_still_loses__131124.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[FBI Director James Comey, whose reputation as a truth-teller was forever sealed when he served as deputy attorney general in the Bush administration, was the clear winner in the Hillary Clinton email story/scandal. In fact, he was pretty much the only winner.
Clinton lost, even as she...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[With Glenn's Win, It's Time to Retire the Cory Gardner Playbook]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/06/30/with_glenns_win_its_time_to_retire_the_cory_gardner_playbook_131063.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[OK, now that self-declared Christian conservative constitutionalist Darryl Glenn is officially the GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate, it seems we can officially retire the Cory Gardner playbook on how Republicans win in Colorado.
I thought at the time, when Gardner became the first...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As Dawn Breaks Upon a New World, Trump Thinks Only of Himself]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/06/24/as_dawn_breaks_upon_a_new_world_trump_thinks_only_of_himself_131005.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m reading my Twitter feed correctly, the lesson that Americans should take from Brexit is not that the European project has been turned on its head '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' I mean, who cares about old Europe? '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' but that the American project could be next.
The message is at least...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Election Will Be a Referendum on Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/06/17/this_election_will_be_a_referendum_on_trump_130925.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For those keeping score at home, we are back to the Donald-Trump-is-doomed phase of the game.
It should be familiar to all of us by now. Trump says something so offensive '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' or several things so offensive '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' that he reveals himself, at last, as the dangerous demagogue/carnival...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Tragedy is Too Horrible for Trump to Exploit]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/06/13/no_tragedy_is_too_horrible_for_trump_to_exploit_130865.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The predictability of Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s reaction to the horror in Orlando does not make it any less shocking.
As you must have heard, and probably still can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t quite absorb, the man who would be (and, yes, could be) president took the opportunity to make the deaths of 50 people...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time to Recognize Hillary Clinton's Historic Moment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/06/08/its_time_to_recognize_hillary_clintons_historic_moment_130824.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You start with history, of course. And yet, we are slow to recognize the historic moment when Hillary Clinton is involved. After all, there is so much history to Clinton that is not, well, exactly epoch-making. You don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t often see the words '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'cautious'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Deep End: Trump Evokes Vince Foster Suicide Conspiracy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/05/24/deep_end_trump_evokes_vince_foster_suicide_conspiracy_130662.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Congratulations if you had Vince Foster on your Donald Trump fantasy league team. It was a bold pick, but, when it comes to the Donald, you know that going bold is the only way that points toward victory.
I mean, did you really think Trump was going to suddenly become more, uh,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jon Keyser's Big Dog Won't Stop Forgery Questions]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/05/13/jon_keysers_big_dog_wont_stop_forgery_questions_130561.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s call it the Cory Curse. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s as good an explanation as any.
And let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s agree that Jon Keyser, the would-be GOP golden boy, is the latest victim, although he can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t really blame anyone but himself, or maybe his dog. All we can say for sure is that since Cory...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Elizabeth Warren v. Donald Trump Twitter Wars]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Give the Donald credit. He not only has driven a deep divide within his own party, he has also done his best to heal the divisions in the opposing party. Quite the feat.
Of course, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s all in a day'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s work for Trump, who is, I think we can safely say, a candidate like no other....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Paul Ryan's Knocking the Crap Out of Donald Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/05/06/paul_ryans_knocking_the_crap_out_of_donald_trump_130503.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Paul Ryan is playing the game by Donald Trump rules.
Known as the somber-faced, mild-of-manner, would-be adult in the GOP'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s play room, Ryan offered up more than what the headline writers are calling a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'rebuke'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' of the Donald'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s candidacy.
In Trumpian terms, the GOP...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Trump's 'Hatred' Become America's New Norm?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/05/04/will_trumps_hatred_become_americas_new_norm_130481.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m not sure which is worse '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' that Donald Trump has become the presumptive GOP nominee or that, soon enough, it will all come to seem normal.
It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not normal, of course. Not the idea of it and certainly not the fact of it.
But with his win in Indiana, Trump has all but...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Bernie Sanders Still Win the Revolution if he Can't Win the Race?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/04/20/can_bernie_sanders_still_win_the_revolution_if_he_cant_win_the_race_130341.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In New York, the city where some people actually do sleep, the 2016 campaign was re-awakened to some old realities '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' that momentum in politics is highly overrated and that it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s demography (if not always democracy) that wins the day.
In this most strange of political seasons,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders is Losing. Did All That Yelling Help?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/04/15/bernie_sanders_is_losing_did_all_that_yelling_help_130300.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Littwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was the ninth Democratic debate, and even though Bernie Sanders seems to be winning of late, he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s actually losing in the popular vote, losing in the pledged-delegate vote, losing in the super-delegate vote, and so it shouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t be a surprise that a Brooklyn debate, with a...]]></description>
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