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<title><![CDATA[Perry Bacon - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16589.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Perry Bacon]]></description><category domain="16589">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Are the Blue Wave Polls Too Good to Be True?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/blue-wave-polls-too-good-100000168.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Democrats don't win by as much as the polls suggest, many liberals will be disappointed and the media will downplay the anti-Trump wave.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase 'Culture Wars']]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/215931/democrats-economy-cultural-issues-2026</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Texas's Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Keisha Lance Bottoms &amp; David Crowley Can Make History]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/elections/how-keisha-lance-bottoms-and-david-crowley-can-make-political-history/ar-AA2caLsc</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many Americans who live in suburbs and rural areas don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t like the big, left-leaning metropolitan areas nearby.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Democrats Trying To Sabotage Talarico and El-Sayed?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/elections/stop-the-sabotage-democrats-you-need-talarico-and-el-sayed-to-win/ar-AA2bkQMI</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the next two months, James Talarico and Abdul El-Sayed will face tens millions of dollars in negative ads savaging them, Fox News and a broader right-wing media ecosystem portraying them in the worst way possible, Republican opponents questioning their manhood (Talarico) and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DNC Did Something Right? Actually, It Was 3 Things]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/the-dnc-did-something-right-actually-it-was-three-things/ar-AA2ajKnB</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Recent news about Democratic National Committee has all been terrible.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Not a Blowout, But El-Sayed Won. Get Behind Him, Dems]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/it-wasn-t-a-blowout-but-el-sayed-won-get-behind-him-democrats/ar-AA29s52K</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Coming into Election Day, Abdul El-Sayed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s victory in Michigan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Democratic Senate primary was widely expected. A blowout seemed possible.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Solution to the Dems' John Fetterman Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/the-solution-to-the-democrats-john-fetterman-problem/ar-AA29n04l</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Flipping four Senate seats, which would give Democrats a 51-seat majority in the upper house, is a daunting enough challenge for this midterm cycle.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Progressive Dems Show They Can Win in Swing States]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/can-progressive-candidates-win-in-swing-states-they-already-have/ar-AA28XHDM</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Center-left Democratic officials are coalescing around the opponents of Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong and Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in primaries that will take place over the next month.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Left Wins in CO--and Not Because of Gaza or Socialism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/left-wins-colorado-not-because-130937850.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The primaries on Tuesday in Colorado weren't a sweeping victory for the Democratic left like last week's in New York, where three very progressive candidates won, knocking out two incumbent members of Congress along the way.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mamdani Has Power. Here's What He Wants To Do]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/zohran-mamdani-now-real-power-123832281.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Being the mayor of New York is an enormous task for anyone, let alone a 34-year-old. But Zohran Mamdani's ambitions seem to go beyond leading the Big Apple. He wants to help remake the national Democratic Party.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Should Admire Obama Not Emulate Him]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/it-s-100-right-to-admire-obama-and-100-wrong-to-emulate-him/ar-AA25WNa0</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The opening of Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidential library in Chicago this Friday has inspired a new round of conversations around his remarkable rise and presidency.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Suddenly Made Jon Ossoff Into Such a Dem Rock Star?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/suddenly-made-jon-ossoff-democratic-100000066.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A year ago, Senator Jon Ossoff seemed like he might be a one-hit wonder'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'elected in that short period from November 2020 to January 2021 when Georgia turned blue, then defeated in his reelection bid and quickly forgotten. Or if he won reelection, always outshined by his home state...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Maybe the Time Is Right for an AOC Presidential Bid]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/you-know-what-maybe-the-time-is-right-for-an-aoc-presidential-bid/ar-AA1WrIHR</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sure looked like a presidential candidate this weekend.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Instead of Pandering, Dems Should Try Changing Minds]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/instead-pandering-democrats-try-changing-110000920.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Early last year, polls and media commentary suggested that crime would be the defining issue of the New York City mayoral race. Then, Zohran Mamdani'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s campaign started to take off.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Have Much To Gain, Nothing To Fear by Attacking ICE]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/democrats-much-gain-nothing-fear-110000209.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When the Democrats were gun-shy early last year about criticizing President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s ramp-up of immigrant raids and deportations, that approach was substantively bad but made sense electorally.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Under Patel, 'FBI' Stands for Foolish, Belligerent, &amp; Incompetent]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/under-kash-patel-fbi-means-110000080.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From J. Edgar Hoover authorizing extensive surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr. to James Comey relaunching a misguided investigation of Hillary Clinton days before the 2016 election, many of the eight previous non-interim FBI directors have shown terrible judgment.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dem Establishment&rsquo;s Shunning of Mamdani Is Disqualifying]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/59SqC</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What exactly are Schumer, Jeffries, et al. afraid of? If they won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t get behind Mamdani, progressives should make them pay a future price.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Dems Can Stop Bickering &amp; Focus on Stopping Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/how-democrats-can-stop-bickering-and-focus-on-stopping-trump/ar-AA1KiF2V</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I hate logging onto X these days because the platform promotes conservatives and downgrades links to stories from serious news organizations. But I also hate X because so much of what I see is fighting among Democrats.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 10 Ideas That Are Reshaping the Democratic Party]]></title>
							<link>https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-ideas-that-are-reshaping-the-democratic-party-and-america/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-ideas-that-are-reshaping-the-democratic-party-and-america/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many Americans probably don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t know exactly what terms such as'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' anti-racism, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'cancel culture,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'racial equity,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'white privilege'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'systemic racism'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' mean. And it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s likely even fewer could explain such concepts as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'woke...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Biden Is Winning an Identity Politics Election So Far]]></title>
							<link>https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/if-talking-about-race-hurts-democrats-why-is-biden-so-far-ahead/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/if-talking-about-race-hurts-democrats-why-is-biden-so-far-ahead/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After President Trump won the 2016 election, there was a big debate over the role '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'identity politics'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' played in his victory. Some scholars argued that many white voters without a college degree '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a group that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' proved pivotal'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in that election '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' jumped from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Could Be Most Liberal President in U.S. History]]></title>
							<link>https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-pandemic-has-pushed-biden-to-the-left-how-far-will-he-go/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-pandemic-has-pushed-biden-to-the-left-how-far-will-he-go/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Six weeks ago, when'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Sen. Bernie Sanders dropped out of the presidential race, it seemed like the Democratic Party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s left wing suffered a major and potentially long-lasting defeat. Not only had Sanders lost, but former Vice President Joe Biden had won while casting many left-wing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bloomberg Lost, But Is He Getting What He Wanted?]]></title>
							<link>https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bloomberg-lost-but-he-may-still-get-what-he-wanted/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bloomberg-lost-but-he-may-still-get-what-he-wanted/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg spent more than $400 million on television commercials alone during his ultimately brief 2020 presidential campaign.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Deval Patrick Is Making a Late Bid]]></title>
							<link>https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-deval-patrick-is-making-a-late-bid-for-the-democratic-nomination/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-deval-patrick-is-making-a-late-bid-for-the-democratic-nomination/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It may seem strange that former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is entering the presidential race, as he will reportedly announce on Thursday. It's really late'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Happened to the Kamala Harris Campaign?]]></title>
							<link>https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-happened-to-the-kamala-harris-campaign/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-happened-to-the-kamala-harris-campaign/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kamala Harris was being described by some pundits as the Democratic front-runner before'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' she even formally announced her candidacy. By early July, she seemed poised to challenge the polling leader, Joe Biden, who she had'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' sharply criticized in the first Democratic debate. Harris stood...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Black Democrats Prefer Establishment Candidates]]></title>
							<link>https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-do-black-democrats-usually-prefer-establishment-candidates/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-do-black-democrats-usually-prefer-establishment-candidates/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Black voters effectively delivered Hillary Clinton the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. She and Sen. Bernie Sanders ran about'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' evenly among white voters, but black voters overwhelmingly backed Clinton. So did the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Democratic establishment.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Happens If Biden Doesn't Run - Or Flops?]]></title>
							<link>https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-happens-if-biden-doesnt-run-or-flops/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-happens-if-biden-doesnt-run-or-flops/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Poll of the week Joe Biden seems likely to run for the Democratic presidential nomination and to be a formi'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Kamala Harris Could Win the 2020 Dem Primary]]></title>
							<link>https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/kamala-harris-2020-democratic-primary/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/kamala-harris-2020-democratic-primary/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Harris, the daughter of an India-born woman and a Jamaica-born man, spent much of her childhood in Berkeley, California, before going to college at Howard University.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Stacey Abrams Really Turn Georgia Blue?]]></title>
							<link>https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/can-stacey-abrams-really-turn-georgia-blue/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/can-stacey-abrams-really-turn-georgia-blue/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Can Stacey Abrams, the Democratic nominee for governor in Georgia, win in November?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Reinventing Bully Pulpit in Blue America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/how-obama-reinventing-bully-pulpit-blue-america-n401886</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/how-obama-reinventing-bully-pulpit-blue-america-n401886]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama is Embracing a Fight With Congress]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/so-sue-me-why-president-obama-embracing-fight-congress-n147871</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Perry Bacon</author>
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