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<title><![CDATA[James Hohmann - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/18924.xml</link><description><![CDATA[James Hohmann]]></description><category domain="18924">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[GOP Govs Who Survived in Blue States Share Advice]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/11/29/daily-202-we-won-women-gop-governors-who-survived-the-blue-wave-in-blue-states-share-advice/5bff5cd91b326b60d128008d/?utm_term=.6815e13d5478</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Larry Hogan explained to his fellow GOP governors how he managed to secure a second term in Maryland by double digits.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Leftward Lurch May Mean Trouble for Dems in '18]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/05/16/daily-202-the-far-left-is-winning-the-democratic-civil-war/5afb5fe230fb042588799528/?utm_term=.4579ac3056d3</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The success of very liberal candidates in primaries across four states is causing a new bout of heartburn among party strategists in Washington, who worry about unelectable activists thwarting their drive for the House majority.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rust Belt Felt Clinton Cared More about Bathrooms than Jobs]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/11/22/daily-202-rust-belt-dems-broke-for-trump-because-they-thought-clinton-cared-more-about-bathrooms-than-jobs/58339cf3e9b69b7e58e45f1b/?tid=ss_tw</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio&mdash;Back in May, the longtime chairman of the Mahoning County Democratic Party sent a private memo to leaders in Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s campaign warning that she was in grave danger of losing not just Ohio but also Pennsylvania and Michigan unless she quickly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama in a State of Denial, as Dems Confront Stages of Grief]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/11/15/daily-202-obama-in-a-state-of-denial-about-trump-as-democrats-work-through-the-stages-of-grief/582a5edee9b69b6085905df3/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THE BIG IDEA: Barack Obama has deluded himself with the misguided hope that Donald Trump will not even try to follow through on many of his biggest campaign promises. He is consoling himself with the hope that, if he does, the new president will be measured, self-restrained and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[African American women could pick winner of Maryland Senate primary]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/04/22/daily-202-african-american-women-their-political-muscle-growing-could-pick-winner-of-maryland-senate-primary/5719437a981b92a22d101aad/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Drudge Report Is a Problem for the Cruz Campaign]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/04/12/daily-202-ted-cruz-s-war-with-matt-drudge-could-become-a-huge-problem-for-his-campaign/570be431981b92a22deda1b9/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Drudge Report has aggressively portrayed Ted Cruz&rsquo;s sweep of all the delegates from Colorado&rsquo;s Republican convention as a corrupt power grab.The site named for Matt Drudge, who broke the story of Bill Clinton&rsquo;s affair with Monica Lewinsky and still runs it, links to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republican Establishment Working Through 5 Stages of Grief]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/03/03/daily-202-gop-establishment-working-through-the-five-stages-of-grief-as-donald-trump-trudges-to-cleveland/56d7baca981b92a22d64e56c/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican establishment is not monolithic. Thought leaders from the party&rsquo;s governing class &ndash; legislators, donors, operatives, think tankers, lobbyists &ndash; are coping in very different ways with Donald Trump&rsquo;s victories in 10 of the first 15 nominating...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conventional Wisdom About Trump's Ceiling May Be Wrong]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/02/24/daily-202-trump-s-romp-in-nevada-shows-why-conventional-wisdom-about-his-ceiling-may-be-wrong/56cc817a981b92a22d383ec1/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The returns from last night&rsquo;s Nevada caucuses cast doubt on three assumptions that are widely held and often repeated by Republican elites in Washington, who are perhaps too eager to assure one another that Donald Trump still cannot actually win the nomination. The first is that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ted Cruz and Donald Trump Planning a Joint Appearance to Protest the Iran Deal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/27/ted-cruz-and-donald-trump-planning-a-joint-appearance-to-protest-the-iran-deal/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chris Christie Is Being Taken Seriously by the Mainstream Media]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2015/06/30/chris-christie-is-being-taken-seriously-by-the-mainstream-media/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jindal in His Super PAC's First Ad: Immigrants 'Should Adopt Our Values...Learn English']]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/06/29/jindal-in-his-super-pacs-first-ad-immigrants-should-adopt-our-valueslearn-english/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bobby Jindal to Announce Presidential Plans Wednesday]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/06/24/bobby-jindal-to-announce-presidential-plans-wednesday/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Scott Walker's Iowa Dilemma]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/scott-walkers-iowa-dilemma-118034.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There&#194;&#146;s a game of chicken going on in Iowa right now.When Jeb Bush revealed this week that he will blow off the state GOP&#194;&#146;s famed August straw poll, he left the future of the event to Scott Walker. Since all of the top tier presidential prospects are waiting to see who will compete...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems&quot; Hillary Clinton must campaign more]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/politico-caucus-hillary-clinton-campaign-more-117981.html?hp=t3_r</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Scott Walker Feeling the Heat]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/walker-feeling-the-heat-115389.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Scott Walker likes to say that the recall election he survived three years ago, when national media descended on Madison to cover his showdown with Big Labor, prepared him for the rigors of a presidential campaign. But the Wisconsin governor is learning how wishful that may be.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Dems' Final Insult: Landrieu Crushed]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/bill-cassidy-mary-landrieu-2014-louisiana-senate-elections-results-113367.html?hp=t1_r</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the final insult of a devastating 2014 election for Democrats, Sen. Mary Landrieu, the party&rsquo;s last remaining statewide officeholder from the Deep South, was trounced Saturday in the head-to-head Louisiana Senate runoff election.Republican Bill Cassidy&rsquo;s resounding victory...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Republican Divide]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/republican-fault-lines-113232.html?hp=t2_r</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, Bobby Jindal was pushing a state law to adapt national curriculum standards to local schools; today, not only is the Louisiana governor suing the federal government to stop Common Core &mdash; or &ldquo;ObamaCore,&rdquo; as many Republicans have taken to calling it &mdash;...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does Mary Landrieu Have a Prayer?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/does-mary-landrieu-have-any-prayer-112921.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One by one, Mary Landrieu&rsquo;s paths to victory in her Louisiana Senate runoff are closing off.Rely on the old Democratic coalition? She got a paltry 18 percent of the white vote in the first round.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Big Three Races Slipping From Dems?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/big-three-senate-races-slipping-democrats-111575.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s been the most remarkably enduring story line of Election 2014: three Democratic senators defying their states&rsquo; deep red complexion and their president&rsquo;s abysmal approval ratings to stay competitive in races that should have, on paper, been lost long ago. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Senate Control &quot;on Knife's Edge&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/2014-elections-senate-control-110527.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some $400 million has already been spent in the battle for the Senate. Yet the record-shattering early money has hardly budged the half-dozen races that will decide the fate of the upper chamber, and two months out from Election Day, top officials from both parties say the election truly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Woman Who Could Beat Scott Walker]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/wisconsin-2014-election-mary-burke-scott-walker-109780.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[VIROQUA, Wis. &#194;&#151; Mary Burke might be the last candidate you&#194;&#146;d expect to potentially topple one of the Republican Party&#194;&#146;s leading governors and upend the 2016 presidential field. The only elected office she&#194;&#146;s ever held is a school board seat. She didn&#194;&#146;t even become a Democrat until...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats' 2014 Plan: Neutralize Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/democrats-obamacare-2014-103550.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Not the Kickoff Mark Warner Was Expecting]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/mark-warner-virginia-on-the-ground-103060.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[FOREST, Va.&mdash;Mark Warner is stricken with the flu. A snowstorm has just forced Liberty University to cancel the speech he was about to give to 10,000 Liberty University students. Now, fresh off a trip to the pulmonologist, he&rsquo;s trying to win over a lethargic group of 25...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Soul Searching for Virginia Republicans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/virginia-republicans-100845.html?hp=f3</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[HOT SPRINGS, Va. &mdash; Virginia Republicans suffered a drubbing last month, losing all three statewide races (though a recount is impending in one). A year earlier, it was pretty much the same story as Mitt Romney got swamped and the party unexpectedly lost ground in the Senate.But to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Target Senate Seats in Blue States]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/republican-gop-targets-blue-states-democrats-senate-2014-elections-100458.html?hp=f2</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The GOP could conceivably capture the Senate by winning in seven states currently represented by Democrats but that Mitt Romney carried. But running the table in those states is a very tall task, party strategists freely acknowledge, so they&rsquo;re working to expand the map of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Terry McAuliffe Barely Won]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/terry-mcauliffe-virginia-governor-2013-elections-99441.html?hp=t1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How the heck did that happen?Most public polls leading up to Election Day had Democrat Terry McAuliffe coasting to victory, some by double digits, in the Virginia governor&rsquo;s race. Instead he squeaked by, beating Republican Ken Cuccinelli by less than 3 percentage points.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Scott Walker's 2016 Stealth Strategy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/scott-walker-2016-95735.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MADISON, Wis. &mdash; He can&rsquo;t use the Senate soapbox to rack up media hits and political points, like Rand Paul or Marco Rubio. He isn&rsquo;t poised to run up the score in his reelection campaign as a show of strength heading into 2016, as Chris Christie intends to do this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Tough Nerd' Snyder Makes Motor City Gamble]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/rick-snyder-detroit-95161.html?hp=t1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[DETROIT &mdash; Republican Rick Snyder, who famously ran for governor of Michigan as &ldquo;one tough nerd,&rdquo; made the toughest decision of his political career two weeks ago when he authorized the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. The former tech executive gambled...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Vulnerable Dems Have Obama Problem in '14]]></title>
							<link>http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=982627C4-870A-4F50-8A31-12196E1FDE88</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Democrats try to keep their lock on the Senate next year, some of their most vulnerable incumbents have a problem with President Barack Obama: They can&rsquo;t win with him, but they probably can&rsquo;t win without him, either.The party desperately needs African-American voters to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Tapping Into Libertarian Ideas]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/libertarianism-89697.html?hp=r1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Hohmann</author>
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