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							<title><![CDATA[Newsom Is in Trouble. Could He Take Biden With Him?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Hamby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Arnold Schwarzenegger'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' was right. In March, no one thought that Governor'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Gavin Newsom'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' had to worry about the Republican-led recall campaign against him. Back then, Newsom called the recall a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'distraction,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' waving it off as a pandemic hobby for anti-vaxxers and Trump goons....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Anti-Trump Attack Ads Actually Helping Him?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/anti-trump-attack-ads-might-actually-be-helping-him</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Hamby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While doom-and-gloom ads thrive on Twitter and cable news, they can turn off voters whom Biden needs, according to the tech-minded operatives at Fellow Americans. A lot of the blame-Trump-directly messaging actually resulted in lots of backlash, says one.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Trump Could Not Be More on the Wrong Side' of Protests]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/polling-trumps-protest-response-could-cost-him-2020</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Hamby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Exclusive polling suggests the protests changed Americans' minds so quickly, and so profoundly, that Trump planted himself even further on the wrong side of public opinion than previously understood.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who You Calling Sleepy Joe? Biden Fights Back From Home]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/who-you-calling-sleepy-joe-biden-on-his-youth-agenda-internet-memes-and-fighting-trump-from-his-house</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Hamby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Young people want the truth, says the presumptive Democratic nominee. And I sometimes say more than I mean, but no one doubts I mean what I say.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Outrage Porn Is Hurting Readers &amp; Elevating Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/joe-biden-gaffes-media-clickbait</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Hamby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump wants to nuke hurricanes and the Amazon rainforest is burning. With the stakes so high, are we really going to have a gaffe-fest over Joe Biden?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[You Know Where She Stands: Is Elizabeth Warren the One?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/is-elizabeth-warren-the-one</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Hamby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a political-media universe where news is no longer authoritative, unreality reigns, and every day is an all-out war for attention, Warren is cutting through the noise with a consistent message and a clear rationale for running. Halfway through the race, she might just be winning.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Electability Argument Is How Dems Lose Elections]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/joe-biden-electability-argument-is-how-democrats-lose-elections#'&#'.ord('~').';'o</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Hamby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Democrats play it safe and fall in line, the results are devastating'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'as Dukakis, Gore, and Kerry made plain. If Biden wins the nomination next year, it will be because Democrats went with their heads, not their bleeding hearts. But Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign is a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Dems Can Stop Nuking Themselves, Obliterate Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/03/how-the-democrats-can-stop-nuking-themselves-and-start-obliterating-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Hamby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the left'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s potential 2020 choices swell, a few obvious lessons are clear: tackle economic security, prize Dubuque voters over the media, and stop listening to Twitter.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren Shows Dems How to Lose in 2020]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/elizabeth-warren-shows-democrats-how-to-lose-in-2020</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Hamby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Warren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s maneuver stands as a warning sign for other presidential contenders. Getting into the mud pit with Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'who doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t care about political decorum, rules, sexism, racism, name-calling, facts, or reason'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'has revealed itself as a sucker'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s game. Like a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Swift Boating of the Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/kavanaugh-trump-and-the-swift-boating-of-the-supreme-court</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Hamby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump, the mad puppet master of identity politics, understood that Kavanaugh is a proxy for precisely the sort of voter who swept him into office: a white, fiftysomething man, furious that what he feels is owed to him might be slipping away. But the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Kavanaugh bump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' with G.O.P....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump, the Media, and Occam's Razor]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/05/what-john-edwards-should-teach-the-media-about-covering-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Hamby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you were in Las Vegas and could win $1 million by placing a simple prop bet on whether Trump enjoyed some pee play with Russian hookers in Moscow in 2013, would you bet yes or no? You know where you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d put your money. Even Mitch McConnell would take that bet.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Eulogy to Paul Ryan's Beguiling Career]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/04/it-came-from-janesville-a-eulogy-for-paul-ryans-insidious-career</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Hamby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Paul Ryan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' decision to retire'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' on Wednesday unleashed a wave of hot takes, liberal snark, and conservative think pieces about how the Republican Party has lamentably drifted from Ryan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s party of ideas to the party of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' That Ryan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s retirement would spark...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can the Democrats Run Up the Score in 2018?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/democrats-prepare-for-a-bloodbath-a-novel-strategy-emerges</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Hamby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Lee Carter'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t exactly look like the kind of guy who should be giving Republicans nightmares. The Marine Corps veteran is a stocky, 30-year-old redhead from Manassas, Virginia, who works in I.T. and dresses like it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'visible undershirt, khakis, the whole bit. He had never...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Iowa, a Fresh Start or Deja Vu for Clinton?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/14/politics/hillary-clinton-iowa-hamby/index.html?hpt=po_c1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Hamby</author>
							<description><![CDATA["It's been seven years, and a lot has changed," Hillary Clinton said Sunday in her first visit to Iowa since the state dealt her presidential campaign a devastating body blow.But there was a moment in the afternoon when it seemed like not much had.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How McConnell Fought Off Challenge in Kentucky]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/politics/hamby-midterms/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Hamby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Matt Bevin reaches into the breast pocket of his jacket and extracts a wrinkled, yellow piece of paper. "Fraud Alert," it reads, in alarming, official-seeming font. "Sensitive Materials Enclosed. Please Open Immediately."A Republican he met received the notice in the mail a few weeks ago...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In S.C., Clinton Forces Try to Tap Obama Magic]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/23/politics/hamby-hillary-clinton-south-carolina-2016/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Hamby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) -- To hear some tell it, the 2008 South Carolina primary clash between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton was a few steps away from a full-blown race riot."It was unbelievable down here in 2007 and 2008," said Bridget Tripp, a Democratic organizer from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton's Iowa Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/14/politics/hillary-clinton-iowa-problem-2016/index.html?hpt=hp_t1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Hamby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) -- In Iowa, the state that pulled the first block out of her wobbly Jenga-game of a presidential campaign six years ago, Hillary Clinton enjoys stratospheric approval ratings, well-heeled outside groups toiling on her behalf, and important political connections...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama, Romney Paths to Victory Cross in Iowa]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/01/politics/battleground-iowa/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Point to Early Vote Gains in Ohio]]></title>
							<link>http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/18/republicans-point-to-early-vote-gains-in-ohio/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney's Message This Week: &quot;A Clear Choice on Debt and Deficits&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/14/romney-message-this-week-a-clear-choice-on-debt-and-deficits/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Hamby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Richmond, Virginia (CNN) - Aside from Tuesday's pivotal town hall debate in New York, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will use the upcoming week to focus on the issues of debt and deficits.Polls show voters trust Romney over President Barack Obama on the question of who would...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's Grind-It-Out Battle for Delegates]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/29/opinion/super-tuesday/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Hamby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since 1988, when Michael Dukakis beat his main Democratic rivals in a slew of March primary states, "Super Tuesday" has usually played a pivotal role in determining presidential nominees in both parties.This year, it will not.That's because the mechanics of the 2012 Republican race are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Perry Plans to &quot;Uproot&quot; All Branches of Government]]></title>
							<link>http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/15/perry-pledges-to-uproot-tear-down-and-rebuild-washington/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Hamby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Casting Washington as a latter-day Roman Empire, bloated and "mired in ruin," Texas Gov. Rick Perry unveiled a drastic plan to overhaul the federal government Tuesday in a policy speech in Iowa."It is time to tear down the monuments to bureaucratic failure, and in their place build a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Governors Shift Political Power, Focus to States]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/02/25/governors.political.power/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Hamby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The battle over union rights in Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana has  dramatically shifted the budget debate from Capitol Hill to the states,  almost overshadowing the threat of a government shutdown in Washington  next week.Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker garnered national  attention as one of a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ron Paul Wins CPAC Presidential Straw Poll]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/20/conservatives.meeting/index.html?section=cnn_latest</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Hamby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[(CNN) -- U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, a stalwart foe of government spending, won a blowout victory Saturday in the annual Conservative Political Action Conference presidential straw poll.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is McCain Finding His Way on Faith?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/18/mccain.faith/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Hamby</author>
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