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							<title><![CDATA[Jerry Brown's Collapsing House of Cards]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasdelbeccaro/2013/07/08/jerry-brown-stands-atop-californias-collapsing-house-of-cards/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Del Beccaro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jerry Brown, soon to be California&rsquo;s longest-serving Governor, is obsessed with his legacy. Legacies, however, are judged retrospectively. For now, Brown has been receiving much credit nationally for &ldquo;balancing&rdquo; the budget. In truth, the budget is not really balanced...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Many Fights Will Obama Pick?]]></title>
							<link>http://biggovernment.com/tdelbeccaro/2010/02/03/how-many-fights-will-obama-pick-with-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Del Beccaro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Politics is a game of addition "&ldquo; successful politics anyway.  Great leaders, when faced with a divided electorate, not to mention difficult economic times, use a limited agenda to forge consensus out of broken paradigms.  Once they achieve an initial success, they seek a broader...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unpopular Policies Lead to Midterm Losses]]></title>
							<link>http://biggovernment.com/2010/01/12/lessons-of-66-and-94-loom-over-democrats-part-i/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Del Beccaro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Midterm elections can present a considerable risk for a new President.  Often viewed as a referendum on a President's policies, the last 45 years featured such huge party losses as 54 House seats under Clinton, 48 seats under Ford, and 47 seats under Johnson.  While Ford's fate was not...]]></description>
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