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<title><![CDATA[Sasha Issenberg - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16539.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Sasha Issenberg]]></description><category domain="16539">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Inside the Radical Campaign Strategy of Beto O'Rourke]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/02/22/beto-orourke-campaign-strategy-2020-225193</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sasha Issenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He almost beat Ted Cruz. Could he take down Donald Trump? Inside the radical campaign strategy of Beto O'Rourke.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Maybe It's Time for America to Split Up]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/maybe-its-time-for-america-to-split-up.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sasha Issenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The country is hopelessly split. So why not make it official and break up?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump's Machine Is Built to Last]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-the-trump-bunker-with-12-days-to-go</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sasha Issenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican candidate and his inner circle have built a direct marketing operation that could power a TV network&#195;&#162;??or finish off the GOP.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton Has a Millennial Math Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-09-28/clinton-millennial-math-problem</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sasha Issenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In New Hampshire, Wisconsin, and other northern states, the Democratic nominee still has to&#195;&#130; close the deal with Bernie Sanders holdouts.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Steal a Nomination From Donald Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2016-03-14/how-to-steal-a-nomination-from-donald-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sasha Issenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump has spent much of his campaign selling himself as a maker of great deals. But in the next phase of the campaign, the author of The Art of the Deal may be confronted with the ultimate dealmaking challenge, gaming the rulebook and horse-trading for delegates at what could be a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Ted Cruz Engineered His Iowa Triumph]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-02-02/how-ted-cruz-engineered-his-iowa-triumph</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sasha Issenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At just about 9 p.m. local time, the leadership of Ted Cruz&rsquo;s presidential campaign moved like a phalanx through the lobby of the Des Moines Marriott Downtown toward vehicles that would transport them to the Iowa State Fairgrounds, where Cruz was holding his caucus-night party....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton: Plan to Win Iowa Is Do the Opposite of 2008]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2016-01-29/hillary-s-plan-to-win-iowa-do-the-opposite-of-2008</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sasha Issenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Avoiding the mistakes of the past&#195;&#162;??and emulating Obama&#195;&#162;??are the Clinton campaign&#195;&#162;??s twin caucus obsessions. But are they fighting the last war?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Democrats Can Survive in 2014]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117520/how-democrats-can-avoid-going-down-2014-midterm-election</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sasha Issenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In late February, Barack Obama stood before a room of his party&rsquo;s governors at a Washington fund-raiser and offered a new explanation for the Republican rout that claimed the jobs of more than 750 Democratic officeholders around the country in 2010. At the time, the president had...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A New Job for Labor]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/victory_lab/2012/06/citizens_united_how_the_afl_cio_is_exploiting_its_newfound_liberty_to_influence_campaigns_.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sasha Issenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, at the hour when most Wisconsinites would be leaving work, a union canvasser named Chad Pickler was knocking on doors in a neighborhood on Milwaukee&#194;&#146;s western edge. Pickler was two hours into his daily shift. He had already successfully contacted 15 voters, asking each how...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Could Obama Revolutionize Political Advertising?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/victory_lab/2012/05/obama_campaign_ads_how_the_analyst_institute_is_helping_him_hone_his_message_.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sasha Issenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, top Obama campaign advisers Jim Messina and David Axelrod announced a $25 million national television buy, a figure rightfully acknowledged with a sense of wonder, given that there were still six months to go before Election Day. But anyone waiting for coast-to-coast...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Political Identities Hardwired?]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/features/liberals-conservatives-2012-4/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sasha Issenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A few weeks before the 2008 election, Democratic strategists were running out of ideas for how to help Al Franken. His race against incumbent Minnesota senator Norm Coleman was a stubborn one: Even after some of the country&rsquo;s highest ever per capita spending, the contest remained...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Anatomy of Romney's 30,015 Votes in Iowa]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/victory_lab/2012/01/romney_s_iowa_win_it_took_a_lot_more_than_money_.single.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sasha Issenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Monday night, 24 hours before Iowans would participate in their state&#194;&#146;s caucuses, around 25 volunteers sat in an old Blockbuster Video and placed calls from their personal cellphones on behalf of Mitt Romney. They had the trappings of a Romney crowd&#194;&#151;oxford shirts, small talk...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NAFTA: The All-Purpose Culprit]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/05/04/trade_deficit/?page=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sasha Issenberg</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[John McCain's Alter Ego]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/04/13/inventing_john_mccain/?page=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sasha Issenberg</author>
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