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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Battle To Keep 'Really Difficult&rsquo; Senate Seat in PA]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/08/politics/pennsylvania-senate-race-bob-casey/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sen. Bob Casey is bracing for a GOP onslaught.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Johnson Came To Embrace Ukraine &amp; Defy His Right Flank]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/how-johnson-came-to-embrace-ukraine-aid-and-defy-his-right-flank/ar-AA1no1kj</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The day after'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Iran attacked Israel, House Speaker Mike Johnson was on the phone with a man who suddenly held the keys to his legislative agenda and potentially his own future: House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Agenda Faces Make-or-Break Moment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/13/politics/biden-agenda-congress-democrats/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
							<description><![CDATA[House and Senate Democratic leaders are scrambling to unite their party behind a massive economic package to implement much of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda, but substantial disagreements remain and could threaten to derail the effort.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McConnell&rsquo;s Plan To Keep the Senate in GOP Hands]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/10/politics/mitch-mcconnell-senate-majority/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was on a mission. It was late February, and two vulnerable Republican senators facing voters this fall were pushing a bill that had generated opposition from conservatives but was important to their states -- and their own reelections.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[FBI Used Dossier Allegations to Boost Trump-Russia Probe]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearinvestigations.com/links/2017/04/18/fbi_used_dossier_allegations_to_bolster_trump-russia_investigation_102557.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The FBI last year used a dossier of allegations of Russian ties to Donald Trump's campaign as part of the justification to win approval to secretly monitor a Trump associate, according to US officials briefed on the investigation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Powerless Senate Dems Regret 'Nuclear Option' Power Play]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/05/politics/senate-democrats-nuclear-option-donald-trump/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Senate Democrats are eager to make Donald Trump pay a political price for nominating staunch conservatives to fill out his Cabinet, hoping to exact revenge for the GOP's stubborn opposition to President Barack Obama's nominees.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[IN: Records Contradict Bayh's Assertion Over Staying in IN]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/15/politics/evan-bayh-indiana-residence/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Evan Bayh pushed back at an interviewer last month when he was asked if he would move back to Indiana now that he is running to win back his old Senate seat.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump: Touts Unity with Paul Ryan in Wake of Meeting]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/11/politics/paul-ryan-donald-trump-meeting/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan concluded their highly anticipated meeting Thursday amid signals that the Republican Party will work to piece itself together after a fractious primary.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chaos in Colorado Risks Key Senate Seat for GOP]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/colorado-senate-213199</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's Big-Money Plan to Save the Senate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/2016-republican-senate-map-campaign-finance-121622.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rand Paul Vows to Foot Bill for Switch to Caucus in Kentucky]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/rand-paul-promises-pay-kentucky-caucus-121443.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside Russ Feingold's Comeback Attempt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/russ-feingold-wisconsin-senate-race-2016-121014.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Official: Russ Feingold Raises More Than $2 Million in Second Quarter]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/russ-feingold-ron-johnson-2016-wisconsin-election-fundraising-second-quarter-119600.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Democrats Stuck With Harry Reid]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/harry-reid-senate-democrats-112882.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Standing With Women Hurts Senate Dems]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/senate-democrats-women-voters-2014-elections-112010.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Female voters powered President Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s victory over Mitt Romney in 2012, as Democrats leaned heavily on social issues to rally single women and suburban moms to the polls.But with two weeks until Election Day, the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s diminished standing with women is quickly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Scramble to Save Roberts in Kansas]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/pat-roberts-kansas-2014-election-110822.html?hp=f2</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The GOP'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s political machine is kicking into overdrive to save a Senate seat in Kansas that'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s suddenly complicating its path to the majority.With polls showing Sen. Pat Roberts in serious trouble against independent Greg Orman, top Senate Republicans, including Minority Leader Mitch...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Michigan Becomes a Critical Senate Battle]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/michigan-senate-race-2014-on-the-ground-103704.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MARQUETTE, Mich. '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';' Braving sub-zero temperatures at the annual dog sled race here, Democratic Senate candidate Gary Peters happily indulged when a prospective voter offered him a swig from her flask of whiskey. And as some Upper Peninsula locals (known as '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'Yoopers'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';') were sledding down...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[North Carolina's Choice: Can Kay Hagan Survive?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/north-carolina-2014-kay-hagan-101052.html?hp=f1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LENOIR, N.C. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' It would be tough to find another state where the political terrain has shifted as dramatically as it has here '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' from kindling hopes of a Democratic revival in the South just a few years ago, to becoming a conservative hotbed that banned gay marriage, tightened...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Put Faith in White House to Fix Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/senate-democrats-obamacare-website-99283.html?hp=f1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democratic senators have a warning for the White House: Fix Obamacare'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s problems or put Senate seats at risk next year.In interviews, Democratic senators running in 2014, party elders and Senate leaders said the Obama administration must rescue the law from its rocky start before it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ghost of Akin Looms Over Georgia Republicans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/georgia-senate-2014-broun-gingrey-kingston-nunn-97032.html?hp=t3_3</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CANTON, Ga. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' To his Republican critics, Rep. Paul Broun is 2014'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Todd Akin: a far-right candidate who may win a crowded GOP primary but will blow the party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s chances at holding a critical Senate seat.But campaigning across Georgia, Broun is modeling himself as the next...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Red State Dems Fight Obama Drag]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83299.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president could hurt Jon Tester in his race against Denny Rehberg. '&#'.ord('|').';' AP Photo]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[MO: Akin, McCaskill Get Testy in Final Debate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82611.html?hp=r1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The two candidates stayed away from the most controversial aspects of the campaign. '&#'.ord('|').';' AP Photo]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Capitol Hill Republicans Worry About Long Race]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/72186.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans on Capitol Hill dismissed Newt Gingrich'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s threat to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'go all the way to the convention,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' saying that the former speaker will either run dry of cash or see his political standing sharply erode if he loses a string of primary contests.While Gingrich could very...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Webb's Blunt Challenge to Obama, Dem Leaders]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/67394.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the wall in Sen. Jim Webb'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s office hangs a framed newspaper article highlighting his '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'blunt challenge'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' to President George W. Bush during an emphatic Democratic State of the Union response in 2007.Webb is now on his way out of the Senate '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s offering a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congress Works to Find Debt-Ceiling Solution]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/59737.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' First came the Biden talks. When those blew up, the Obama-Boehner  talks took center stage. And when that failed, the McConnell-Reid talks  looked promising. And after they faltered, the Obama-Boehner talks  tried to find a new life.Now it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s all come down to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats: CIA is Out to Get Us]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22439.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Moderate Dems Feel Sticker Shock on Obama Budget]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19587.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Stew in Botched Burris Imbroglio]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17292.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Manu Raju</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Intraparty Tensions Could Cleave Dems]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16728.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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