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<title><![CDATA[Patricia Murphy - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/19654.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Patricia Murphy]]></description><category domain="19654">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The State of Joe Biden Is Alive and Kicking]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ajc.com/politics/opinion-the-state-of-joe-biden-isalive-and-kicking/WXXYK5MFLZE2VEDR4BEIKNBKSA/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not so long ago, the word on the street was that President Joe Biden was so infirm and decrepit that he was hardly able to tie his own shoelaces, let alone run the country.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pelosi Is Many Things, But 'Crazy' Isn't One of Them]]></title>
							<link>https://www.rollcall.com/2020/09/17/nancy-pelosi-is-many-things-but-crazy-isnt-one-of-them/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You can call Speaker Nancy Pelosi too liberal, or an out-of-touch San Francisco elitist. But whatever you do, don't call her crazy, Murphy writes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Georgia Is a Scary Place to Be Living and Working]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/28/coronavirus-stress-test-georgia-reopens-businesses-column/3033238001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We still don't know who is spreading this awful virus, how many cases we really have, or what will happen as the state reopens in earnest. It's scary.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Media Puffery Can't Hide the Democrats' Face Plant]]></title>
							<link>https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/02/media_puffery_cant_hide_the_democrats_impeachment_face_plant.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Late on Thursday night after the impeachment hearings had ended, the headline column at Politico was "How Trump's impeachment created two Democratic Superstars" by Jake Sherman and Heather Caygle. They authors waxed rhapsodic about Adam Schiff and Hakeem Jeffries! The column, dated 1/30,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pelosi and Schumer Got Skunked]]></title>
							<link>https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/12/that_oval_office_sitdown_pelosi_and_schumer_got_skunked.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are thousands of families in the U.S. who have lost children and family members to illegal aliens in a variety of horrific ways.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pelosi's Leadership Lessons for Bossy Girls Everywhere]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/nancy-pelosis-leadership-lessons-for-bossy-girls-everywhere</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[She's showing us what it looks like when a woman doesn't care what people call her as long as they call her Madam Speaker one more time too.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Was a Manufactured Hoax From the Outset]]></title>
							<link>https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/10/the_kavanaugh_setup_becomes_clear.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With each passing day and with each bit of information that seeps out about Christine Blasey Ford, it is clearer and clearer that what the Democrats have done to Judge Brett Kavanaugh has been a setup from the outset.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Senate Already Went Nuclear. This Must Be Nuclear Plus]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/senate-already-went-nuclear-this-must-be-nuclear-plus</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They'd probably be better off not going after making such fools of themselves during the first hearing. So much for the gentleman from Arkansas.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Ugly Primaries a Good Thing for Republican Party?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/republicans-democrats-primaries</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The instinct squash rebellions and silence dissent in a primary is understandable. But that only keeps you from getting an early indication of bad news.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Some Dems Want to Dump Nancy Pelosi. Are They Nuts?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/opinion-dems-want-dump-nancy-pelosi-nuts</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some Democrats want to dump Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. Are they nuts? She's tough enough to take on Trump and raises money like a hedge fund chairman.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Pennsylvania Special Election Is Not So Special]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/special-election-lunacy-pa-18</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Pennsylvania special election between Republican Rick Saccone and Democrat Conor Lamb has fewer real-world consequences than most, Murphy writes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump Has Already Won His Trade War]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/trump-already-won-trade-war</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Delivering on his promise to fight back for the people who put him in office seems to be Donald Trump's only goal in a potential trade war, Murphy writes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Meet the Deficit Doves: Deficit Hawks Soar Like a Rock]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/deficit-hawks-budget-republicans</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Do you remember the deficit hawks of the last decade, that breed of budget cutter so single-minded and focused on reducing, rather than growing, government debts and deficits that you knew what they were going to say before they said it?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Crumbs? 'I'll Take It!' And Democrats Should Too]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/tax-cut-bill-democrats-money</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats could not believe their luck this weekend when House Speaker Paul Ryan tweeted '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? and then deleted '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? a boast about the $1.50 raise a high school secretary received as a result of the GOP tax cut bill that President Donald Trump signed at the end of the year.She said...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Welcome to S-Town]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/politicians-trump-s-town</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You have to wonder what's going through newly elected Sen. Doug Jones' mind as he experiences his second full week in the Senate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Avoiding Another 'Brownbackistan']]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/tax-cuts-sam-brownback-kansas</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Economic gold rush? Or fiscal wreck?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' That was the question the Kansas City Star asked on May 23, 2012, the day after Gov.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Sam Brownback'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' signed a sweeping series of state tax cuts into law. Five years later, the Kansas tax cuts are looking a lot more train wreck than gold...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Have No Idea How to Win in the Age of Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/karen-handel-wins-as-jon-ossoff-becomes-latest-democrat-to-lose-special-election-in-the-era-of-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After $50 million and a congressional contest bigger than some presidential primaries, the special election in Georgia'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 6th District to replace Rep. Tom Price ended up where it began, with the House seat still in Republican hands and national Democrats still looking for a way to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dem Hopes Are Sky High in Georgia Special Election]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/democratic-hopes-are-sky-high-in-trump-testing-georgia-special-election-runoff</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Take the New Hampshire presidential primary, move it next to a Waffle House, douse it in cash and the sweltering June heat of Georgia, and you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll get the special election runoff in the state'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 6th Congressional District. In a race that was never expected to be close, the once...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mick Mulvaney's Compassion--Not for the Needy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/republican-budget-mick-mulvaney-needy</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[OMB Director Mick Mulvaney dumped the concept of compassionate conservatism and redefined what compassion should mean in Washington, Patricia Murphy writes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Only May, But Trump's Already Out of MoJo]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/capitol-hill-trump-legislation</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's early May in the first year of Donald Trump's presidency and the White House is already out of juice on Capitol Hill. The cup ran dry on May 2, 2017.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why These Union Members &amp; Lifelong Dems Back Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/26/why-these-union-members-and-lifelong-democrats-are-voting-trump.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[David Kemper and his wife are union members and lifelong Democrats. But the Kempers and their 20-year-old son, Nicholas, are planning to vote for Donald Trump in November.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Growing up we were very strong Democrats, but the Democrat party left us,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' David Kemper said, standing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton and the Year in Political Scandals]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/28/gross-the-year-in-political-scandals.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It wouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t be a year in politics without a scandal or two. On that count, 2015 did not disappoint. From secret servers to the Secret Service to a sex bus across the pond, here are the lies, cover-ups and takedowns that defined bad behavior in 2015.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 1. Hillary'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Could Swing the Senate for the Democrats]]></title>
							<link>http://blogs.rollcall.com/news/how-donald-trump-could-swing-the-senate-opinion/?dcz=</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Imagine, for a moment, the once unthinkable scenario that Washington Republicans are beginning to contemplate:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  The GOP convention in Cleveland with Donald Trump as the nominee.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' After Melania Trump and the Trump kids get prime time spots to talk about how The Donald will make America...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are Women Ditching Clinton?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/13/why-are-women-ditching-hillary.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Clinton campaign went into overdrive this week to shore up support among voters most assumed would have been locked in as Clinton backers from the start'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Democratic women.From last Saturday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s kickoff of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'New Hampshire Women for Hillary,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' to Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden on 2016: I Just Don't Know]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/04/joe-biden-talks-2016-i-just-don-t-know.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Vice President Joe Biden addressed the speculation for the first time Thursday night about whether he'll get into the 2016 presidential race. But instead of an enthusiastic yes, or a politician'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s non-answer, Biden spoke with the raw honesty of a still-grieving father.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The most...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Red State Democrats Ditch Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/29/red-state-democrats-ditch-obama.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is This the Democrats' War on Women?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/19/is-this-the-democrats-war-on-women.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Lawless, the director of the Women &amp; Politics Institute at American University, said that at this point in political campaigns, just about anything in a person'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s past is fair game, no matter the candidate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s gender. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'When you are heading into Election Day, to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Carter Could Turn Georgia Blue]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/14/a-carter-could-turn-georgia-blue.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Wendy Davis'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s campaign for Texas governor flounders, Democrats in Washington have begun to cast their eyes elsewhere for a good news story in the solid-red South. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Ted Cruz Wannabes of 2014]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/27/five-tea-party-challengers-the-ted-cruz-wannabes.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Ted Cruz seems like a one-of-a-kind, give it time. A slew of young, hard-charging, Tea Party-endorsed Senate wannabes is looking to knock off the Republican establishment again in 2014. Some have better chances than others, but all have the unmistakable Cruzian commitment to refusing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rising Guard of Democratic Women]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/07/wendy-davis-kamala-harris-chris-taylor-more-tough-democratic-women.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patricia Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Never have a pair of pink running shoes, a back brace, and a YouTube connection created a bigger stir than Wendy Davis'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s now-famous filibuster in the Texas state Senate against abortion restrictions. Since her 10-hour marathon, the 50-year-old Davis has rocketed to national...]]></description>
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