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<title><![CDATA[Jason Zengerle - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16548.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jason Zengerle]]></description><category domain="16548">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Michigan Is Next Big Test for the Democratic Party]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/election-2026/michigan-is-the-next-big-test-for-the-democratic-party</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Michigan Senate primary race between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed reflects the Democrats' growing ideological schism, but it's also a contest of competing campaign styles.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Audacity of Pete Buttigieg]]></title>
							<link>https://www.gq.com/story/inside-the-campaign-of-pete-buttigieg</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The improbable arrival and urgent ambition of a man who'll be shaping our politics for years'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'whether or not he wins in 2020.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Really Going On in the Democratic Primary?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/opinion/democrats-primary-2020.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bundlers and endorsers are out. Ears and eyeballs are in.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Unfinished Business of Bernie Sanders]]></title>
							<link>https://www.gq.com/story/bernie-sanders-unfinished-business</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He went from the rumpled bit player of the progressive movement to a legit presidential candidate and liberal kingmaker.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Far Will These Dems Go Investigating Trump?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/magazine/democrats-trump-investigation.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In two weeks, congressional Democrats will return to Washington with the authority to investigate a White House that is suspected of foreign collusion, conflicts of interest and mismanagement of the federal government.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Trump Admin Is Remaking the Courts]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/magazine/trump-remaking-courts-judiciary.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fpolitics&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=politics&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=latest&amp;contentPlacement=7&amp;pgtype=sectionf</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thanks to ruthless discipline '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and a plan long in the making '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the G.O.P is carrying out a sweeping transformation of the federal judiciary.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Nunes Turned House Intel Committee Inside Out]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/magazine/how-devin-nunes-turned-the-house-intelligence-committee-inside-out.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In inquiries on Benghazi and Russia and beyond, the California congressman has displayed a deep mistrust of the expert consensus on reality and a disposition thats helped him make friends in the current White House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kirsten Gillibrand, Senator From the State of #MeToo]]></title>
							<link>https://www.gq.com/story/kirsten-gillibrand-on-trump-franken-and-metoo-movement</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The race to replace Donald Trump is already under way. And if the rage being mustered against him is any clue, the most fearsome contender might be Kirsten Gillibrand'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the outspoken New York senator who'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s suddenly become the face of a powerful political moment.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What (If Anything) Does Carter Page Know?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/18/magazine/what-if-anything-does-carter-page-know.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmagazine&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=magazine&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;contentPlacement=1&amp;pgtype=sec</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He has been wiretapped by the F.B.I. and grilled by congressional investigators over his suspected Russia connections. But the Trump campaign foreign-policy adviser can't seem to stop talking.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Voices in Blue America's Head]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/magazine/the-voices-in-blue-americas-head.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmagazine</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For years, liberals have tried, and failed, to create their own version of conservative talk radio. Has Crooked Media finally figured it out?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is North Carolina the Future of American Politics?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/magazine/is-north-carolina-the-future-of-american-politics.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the last Thursday in March, the air horns returned to the governor'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s mansion in Raleigh, N.C. There were about 75 of them, and they belonged to the Air Horn Orchestra, an ad hoc ensemble of liberal activists. In 2016 the orchestra gathered once a week for 30 consecutive weeks,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Donald Trump Being a Clown Is Bad for Hillary]]></title>
							<link>http://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-being-clown-is-bad-for-hillary-clinton</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is how Republicans will use The Donald's idiocy to undermine Hillary's potential presidency.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Love Song of Robert Bentley, Alabama's Horndog Governor]]></title>
							<link>https://www.gq.com/story/affair-robert-bentley-alabama-governor</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Redneck Riviera beckoned. It was a Friday afternoon in early 2014 and Robert Bentley was ready for the weekend. Not that his workweeks were so bad. Bentley, the governor of Alabama, was in the homestretch of his first term and on a glide path to his second. Polls put his approval...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bill Clinton's Big Moment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.gq.com/story/bill-clinton-health-trump-and-hillary</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To be an ex-president is to live forever in the past. You write books and build museums to preserve your great moments, to commemorate a time when you led the free world. Crowds still gather and men in dark suits still hover protectively nearby. But mostly these are vestiges. You're a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Meet Presidential Candidate Martin O'Malley]]></title>
							<link>http://www.gq.com/story/martin-omalley-2016-campaign</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Martin O'Malley was standing on a chair, shouting in a dark bar in Iowa City. He may have been nearly a thousand miles from Baltimore, but for him, that wasn't far enough.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Clinton Any Good at Running for President?]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/04/hillary-clinton-2016-campaign.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A lot can happen between now and then, but barring something truly unprecedented and totally unforeseen '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a meteorite, a Benghazi revelation, a health scare, or a Martin O'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'Malley groundswell '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' on July 28, 2016, Hillary Clinton will step onto a stage in Philadelphia. There,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What If Palin Were a Brain Surgeon?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201504/ben-carson-tea-party</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the night earlier this year that Barack Obama stepped before the nation to deliver his sixth State of the Union address, Ben Carson'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a political newcomer who harbors dreams of soon giving his first'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'settled into a sofa just a few blocks away. He was eager to hate everything...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Enough! Martha Coakley Isn't &quot;Choking&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120019/martha-coakley-isnt-choking-massachusetts-governor-race</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Paul Bringing Realism Back to Republican Party]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119466/rand-pauls-foreign-policy-evolution-isolationist-realist</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When it comes to foreign policy, Rand Paul contains multitudes. He was for ending foreign aid to Israel before he was against it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'before he was for it again but only after ending foreign aid to lots of other countries first. He was against building a fence along the U.S.-Mexican...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Civil Rights Movement in Reverse]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119019/civil-rights-movement-going-reverse-alabama</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Long before he became the most powerful man in the Alabama Senate, before he controlled billions of dollars in state money and had lobbyists, governors, and future presidents seeking his favor, Hank Sanders used newspapers and magazines as bathroom tissue. His mother would collect...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Rahm's Top Nemesis Take Him On?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118694/rahm-emanuel-vs-karen-lewis-would-be-bloody-mayoral-battle</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you like your political campaigns bloody, then you have to be cheered by the new poll that found Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis beating Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a hypothetical matchup 45 to 36. Lewis, who'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s been Emanuel'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s primary political antagonist for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Obama Sold Out the Kale Crowd]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117504/obama-failed-foodies</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was seven years ago this July that Barack Obama brought his presidential campaign to the Van Fossen Farm in Adel, Iowa. There, standing between corn and soybean fields, he held forth on agricultural issues. Obama didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have a lot in common with Iowa farmers. In his Chicago...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Race That Broke the Cheney Family]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/the-race-that-broke-the-cheney-family-100174.html?hp=t2_s</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Liz Cheney just wanted to enjoy her milkshake. It was a Friday afternoon in early November, and the shadows were growing longer over the flat expanse of eastern Wyoming as a hard week dragged on. There had been hundreds of miles to cover and just as many hands to shake before Cheney, who...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Plot Against Mitch McConnell]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/get-mitch-mcconnell-99376.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even in good times, his face wears an almost cartoonish expression of alarm'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'like that of a man who'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s just remembered that he left the stove on and is miles from home. Gray, watery eyes bulging out from behind his glasses; thin, bloodless lips pursed into a frown. And yet, for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Back on the Trail With Mark Sanford]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/features/mark-sanford-2013-3/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Late last year, a few days before Christmas, former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford embarked on a delicate political mission. He went to see his ex-wife, Jenny.It was only four years ago, in early 2009, that the couple were approaching their twentieth wedding anniversary and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Team Obama Tries to Reframe Brutish Win]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/obama-nerds-2012-12/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, Politico declared in June, was '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'a grinding, joyless slog, falling short in every respect of the larger-than-life personalities and debates of the 2008 campaign,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and neither candidate did much in the ensuing months to elevate the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Official Sales Pitch: Interview With Axelrod]]></title>
							<link>http://www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/201211/david-axelrod-interview-gq-november-2012</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[David Axelrod's office in the Obama 2012 campaign's Chicago headquarters is a shrine to the Obama 2008 campaign. The walls are festooned with mementos from that effort: the Chicago Tribune front page from post-nomination morning, a photo of Axelrod and Bruce Springsteen on the campaign...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wanna Be Veep? Okay, But This Is Going to Hurt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/201208/mitt-romney-vice-president-gq-july-2012</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Less than an hour after I meet the vetter for the first time, he asks me if I've always been faithful to my wife. Next he wants to know if I've ever been accused of sexual harassment. And then whether I've ever paid for sex. Before long he's asking me about any past history I might have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Romney Campaign's Dark Knight]]></title>
							<link>http://www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/201205/eric-fehrnstrom-profile-mitt-romney-adviser</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney likes to describe himself as an accidental politician. He's a businessman, not a bureaucrat, and the crux of his sales pitch for the Oval Office is that he's the only candidate blessed with the know-how to fix a flatlining former blue-chip company called America.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Eric Cantor Plays Role of Obama Nemesis]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/politics/eric-cantor-2011-10/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Zengerle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On a stormy evening in early September, a couple of hours before Barack Obama would present his new jobs plan to a joint session of Congress, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was huddled in his Capitol office with a handful of aides, kicking around a question: Why does the president...]]></description>
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