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<title><![CDATA[Elizabeth Drew - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16294.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Drew]]></description><category domain="16294">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why Isn't Washington Merry?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-politics-declining-morale-by-elizabeth-drew-2021-12</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Drew sees declining morale in the US capital, on both sides of the aisle.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats' Debacle]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/youngkin-victory-us-democratic-party-s-midterm-prospects-by-elizabeth-drew-2021-11</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The US Democratic Party could be in for a drubbing in next year's midterm congressional elections, and potentially even a loss in the 2024 presidential election. The outcomes of two recent gubernatorial elections offer insight into why.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Trap]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biden-trap-legislative-agenda-electoral-risks-by-elizabeth-drew-2021-10</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With razor-thin margins of Democratic control in Congress, US President Joe Biden came to the White House with an unenviable task. His administration must deliver on its promise of introducing sweeping new federal programs while at the same time placating moderates who, by definition,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Afghan Nightmare]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biden-afghanistan-withdrawal-by-elizabeth-drew-2021-09</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A shaken Biden administration is now trying to change the subject away from Afghanistan by turning to domestic issues. But extricating itself from the consequences of its Afghanistan decisions, however warranted, may take longer than the administration envisions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Big Lie and Its Consequences]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-big-lie-threat-to-constitution-by-elizabeth-drew-2021-05</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By demonstrating craven loyalty to Donald Trump despite his lies about the 2020 election, the Republican Party is no longer simply playing for the base. By questioning the very integrity of America's electoral system, it now represents an open threat to the US constitutional order.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Present at the Republican Self-Destruction]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/republican-decline-from-reagan-to-trump-by-elizabeth-drew-2021-04</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While former Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner's recent memoir offers a tale of woe for his party, a new biography of Nancy Reagan shows just how far the institution has fallen. The big question now is whether the GOP will be able to reclaim respectability before it meets with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Would Anyone Want to Be President?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/joe-biden-challenges-in-office-us-presidency-by-elizabeth-drew-2021-04</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[US President Joe Biden appears to be making an early bid for greatness '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' since taking office, he has tackled the COVID-19 pandemic and other urgent issues. But some of Biden's biggest priorities, like his ambitious infrastructure program, are facing opposition from both sides of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Biden Govern?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-rescue-plan-act-filibuster-democrats-by-elizabeth-drew-2021-03</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Divided 50/50 between Democrats and Republicans, the US Senate faces either years of immobility or dramatic change. At the center of the debate over the Senate's future is the filibuster, which allows a minority of the Senate to block most legislation and can only be overridden by a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Lost Cause of the Trumpocracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/lost-cause-of-the-trumpocracy-by-elizabeth-drew-2020-11</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump's insistent denial of reality following his loss in the 2020 US presidential election threatens to do still more damage to American democracy, even though it comes as no surprise. Like the southerners who never could get over their loss in the American Civil War, Trump has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Packs the Court His Way]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-supreme-court-barrett-democracy-by-elizabeth-drew-2020-10</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court will almost certainly produce a hard conservative majority that may well thwart the progressive policies that US presidential candidate Joe Biden seeks to enact. It could also overturn longstanding precedents that have expanded...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Next Civil War?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-first-debate-attacks-on-election-by-elizabeth-drew-2020-10</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Although US President Donald Trump has long hid his tax records and history of business failings, he has never made any secret of his willingness to destroy the US constitutional order if doing so will give him a political advantage. Not since the eve of the Civil War has America been so...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Let's Scrap the Presidential Debates]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/opinion/trump-biden-presidential-debates-2020.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They've become unrevealing quip contests.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Not Just a Liar, He's a Fabulist]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/why-trump-invented-obamagate-scandal-by-elizabeth-drew-2020-05?a_la=english&amp;a_d=5ec3d04b55c9385ad055b069&amp;a_m=&amp;a_a=click&amp;a_s=&amp;a_p=homepage&amp;a_li=why-trump-invented-obamagate-scandal-by-elizabeth-drew-2020-05</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since assuming the US presidency in 2017, Donald Trump has established his bona fides as not just a liar, but as someone seemingly unconcerned with whether his fictions will be exposed. Is his latest invention a bridge too far?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Democrats Are Going With Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biden-democratic-presidential-primary-turnaround-by-elizabeth-drew-2020-03</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former US Vice President Joe Biden is almost certain to be the Democratic Party's nominee to challenge President Donald Trump in November. Biden's emergence at the front of a once-crowded field caps what may be the most significant and unusual US presidential primary ever.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[You Don't Have to Break a Law to Be Impeached]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/10/28/abuse-of-power-enough-to-impeach-no-crimes-necessary-column/2479066001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Founders made clear that an impeachable or convictable offense need not be a crime. Hamilton said it applied to 'the misconduct of public men.']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Mueller Bait and Switch]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/mueller-report-trump-controls-narrative-by-elizabeth-drew-2019-03</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thanks to US Attorney General William Barr's "summary" of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, President Donald Trump and most of the Republican Party can implant the idea in the mind of much of the public that Trump did nothing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Elizabeth Warren Actually 'Unlikable'?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/01/elizabeth-warren-unlikable-women-in-politics</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Women in certain fields endure a different kind of test than men do'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'or an additional one. But that doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t mean that no woman will pass it, or that disliking a certain woman stems solely from misogyny.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Even Republicans May Decide Trump Is a Danger to U.S.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/opinion/trump-impeachment-resign-drew.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even Republicans may be deciding that the president has become too great a burden to their party or too great a danger to the country.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Manafort Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/manafort-trial-risks-for-trump-by-elizabeth-drew-2018-08?a_la=english&amp;a_d=5b686a7678b6c72e1c0392b3&amp;a_m=&amp;a_a=click&amp;a_s=&amp;a_p=homepage&amp;a_li=manafort-trial-risks-for-trump-by-elizabeth-drew-2018-08&amp;a_pa=curate</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Under normal circumstances, an American politician would be in trouble for having employed a figure as compromised as Paul Manafort, whose role in US President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign ranks with some of the country's most famous scandals. But these are not normal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Could Trump Be Brought Down by a Porn Star?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/mueller-investigation-russia-stormy-daniels-by-elizabeth-drew-2018-04</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For all of his many other legal and political problems, is it possible that Donald Trump could be brought down by a porn star? His lawyer's payment to her to buy her silence about a one-time liaison with the US president may not be the only issue at stake.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump Is a Walking Maelstrom]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/147340/donald-trump-walking-maelstrom</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So much is happening on so many fronts involving the president that it leaves those of us who try to follow it all gasping for air. Until now, this served Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s interest: the less we can focus any one thing the less trouble he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s likely to seem to be in. Despite my college...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Robert Mueller Doesn't Need a Smoking Gun]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/147206/robert-mueller-doesnt-need-smoking-gun</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As of the latest indictments and plea agreements, the picture of what may have happened in the 2016 election, and the path that special counsel Robert Mueller is on, are becoming clearer. Washington is impressed with the airtight secrecy of Mueller'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s operation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'showing that this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sex and Power in Washington]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/146055/sex-power-washington</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve seen few issues over which there was more confusion than the recently sprouted one of inappropriate sex in Washington'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and certain related outposts as well. Lumped together in the furor are minor matters such as a bottom pinch (not that that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a nice thing to do) and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton's If-Onlys]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clintons-if-onlys/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What Happened tells us more about her than about why she lost the election.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[OK, NOW Is It Watergate?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/10/trump-fire-fbi-comey-watergate-nixon-215121</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s astonishing firing of FBI director James Comey on Tuesday afternoon raised throughout Washington the inevitable question: Is this Watergate? While Watergate was sui generis and is likely to remain so, Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s metastasizing crisis, and Washington'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Richard Nixon Was Not Misunderstood]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/revisionist-histories-richard-nixon/397319/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while someone writes a book arguing that Richard Nixon has been misunderstood. These authors tend to focus on some particular aspect of his presidency that, the argument goes, is more important than that Watergate business.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans: Divided &amp; Scary]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/feb/19/republicans-divided-scary/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the new Congress gathered in early January, we were treated to news story after news story about how the Republicans, now in control of both chambers for the first time in eight years, were set to prove that they could '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'govern.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' This was more than an exercise in public...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Unmaking of the President]]></title>
							<link>http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/obama-divisive-american-politics-2015-by-elizabeth-drew-2015-01</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('–').';' Barack Obama was widely considered an exciting new figure when he was first elected President of the United States in 2008. His increasing unpopularity and virtual abandonment by his own party in his second term in 2014 stems largely from that fact: Expectations...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Republicans Won]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/nov/08/midterms-why-republicans-won/?insrc=hpbl</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/nov/08/midterms-why-republicans-won/?insrc=hpbl]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s actually not all that stunning for the party out of power to make sizeable gains in the sixth year of a president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s time in office, even after the president has won a smashing reelection victory two years earlier. As of now, the Republicans will have picked up seven to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama &amp; the 2014 Election]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/sep/25/obama-38-coming-election/?insrc=hpma</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Drew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thus far, interest in this year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s midterm elections is in almost inverse proportion to their importance. The most important question is whether the Republicans will gain control of the Senate while retaining their majority in the House. That could make Congress still more...]]></description>
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