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<title><![CDATA[Jay Cost and Sean Trende - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17410.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jay Cost and Sean Trende]]></description><category domain="17410">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Real Reason The Democrats Can't Govern]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost and Sean Trende</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In an insightful article in The New Republic, Jonathan Chait puzzles over why the Democrats have had difficulty governing.  Chait notes that Presidents Carter and Clinton both came to power with large Democratic majorities, yet were both prevented from accomplishing many of their goals. ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Poor Republican Performance In Upstate New York]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost and Sean Trende</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Congress-watchers who were hoping to write a piece on the final outcome of the special election in now-Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's upstate New York district are going to have to wait.  With all the precincts in and about 6,000 absentee votes outstanding, first-time Democratic candidate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Democrats Face a 1994 Repeat in 2010?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/the_eighteenth_brumaire_of_bar.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost and Sean Trende</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napolean, Karl Marx is commonly quoted as stating that history tends to repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. [1]   Some conservative commentators see hope in Marx's dictum, and believe that the stimulus bill, mortgage...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Virginia Governor's Preview]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/virginia_governors_preview_1.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost and Sean Trende</author>
							<description><![CDATA[IntroductionVirginia Republicans have had a rough time of late.  In the past decade they lost two Governor's races, both Senate seats, and control of the state Senate.  Last year Barack Obama became only the second Democratic Presidential candidate to carry the state in the past 60...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Explaining the Stimulus Vote]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/explaining_the_stimulus_vot.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost and Sean Trende</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last night's House vote on the stimulus bill was a fascinating one.  The entire Republican caucus voted no, while all but eleven Democrats voted yes.  There's been talk today about why both sides behaved the way they did, so it is worth a closer look.  We can understand most of it via...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gov. Paterson Gives the GOP Three Gifts]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/gov_paterson_gives_the_gop_thr.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost and Sean Trende</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the most hotly debated questions surrounding the elections held from 2005 to 2008 is whether they represented a rejection of conservatism, of Republicans, or merely of President George W. Bush. Republicans and conservatives hoped and argued that the latter factor was the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Election Review, Part 4: The Midwest]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/election_review_part_4_the_mid.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost and Sean Trende</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today we continue our election review with the Midwest region.  From a national perspective, the elections of 1996 and 2008 turned out to have a lot in common.  Bill Clinton won 54.7% of the two-party vote in 1996.  This cycle, Barack Obama won 53.7% of the two-party vote.  Accordingly,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Election Review, Part 3: The West]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/election_review_part_3_the_wes.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost and Sean Trende</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today we continue our analysis of the 2008 election with a review of the Western Region.  This Census Bureau region consists of two divisions:  the Pacific West and the Mountain West. Pacific WestThe Pacific West is unique if for no other reason than two of its five states were the home...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Election Review, Part 2: The South Atlantic]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/election_review_part_ii_the_so.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost and Sean Trende</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today we continue our series on the 2008 election with a look at the South Atlantic Division. This was an eventful part of the country on Election Day.  Barack Obama swung three states here, as many as any other division in the country.  What's more, he swung Virginia and North Carolina...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Election Review: Moving Beyond "Permanent Majorities"]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/election_review_moving_beyond.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost and Sean Trende</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Michael Barone's latest column is an important one.  Its central thesis is that in a diverse country with a long tradition of competitive two-party elections, trying to build a permanent majority is a fool's errand.  This is a point worth amplifying - as it relates to our ongoing series...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Election Review, Part 1]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/election_review_part_1_1.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost and Sean Trende</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today's essay is the first in a series analyzing the results of the 2008 presidential election.  Our goal here is not to describe every minute detail, but rather to highlight significant trends that emerged on Election Day. To do that, we shall use three types of data: countywide vote...]]></description>
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