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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Officials Are Confident Iran Shot Down Ukrainian Plane]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/01/09/cbs_news_us_officials_are_confident_iran_shot_down_ukrainian_plane_killing_176_including_63_canadians.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CBS's Major Garret reported Thursday morning that U.S. officials are confident that Iran shot down a Ukrainian jetliner in the hours after the Iranian missile attack on U.S. targets. 176 people were killed, including at least 63 Canadians.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The People: What's Missing From Ross Perot Obituaries]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/analysis-whats-missing-from-the-ross-perot-obituaries/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ross Perot died Tuesday of leukemia at age 89. Obituaries noted many extraordinary details about his life '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' that he was a self-made billionaire, champion of Vietnam veterans and POWs, education reformer, philanthropist, early computer/data visionary, buzz-cut bureaucracy hater,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rubio: Future in the 2016 Race Looks Cloudy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/marco-rubios-future-in-the-2016-race-looks-cloudy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rubio's presidential campaign and those close to the Florida senator are engaged in deep conversations about the future of his presidential bid]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Immigration Independence Day]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/all-powers/obama-s-immigration-independence-day-20140703</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[More than a dozen center-left and hard-left immigration groups sent representatives to what sounded like another uninspiring strategy session in the White House's Roosevelt Room with senior Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett and Cecilia Munoz, head of the Domestic Policy Council. It was early...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton's Sexism Opportunity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/all-powers/hillary-s-sexism-opportunity-20140610</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forget the book tour, Hillary.Do something interesting.Start by ending the constricting and unpalatable obsession that the presidential glass ceiling is yours and yours alone to break. It isn't. The longer you pretend otherwise, the longer your road to the White House will become. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan and How Wars End]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/all-powers/this-is-how-wars-end-in-the-21st-century-20140527</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a sun-splashed Rose Garden, warmer and more humid than that sun-splashed September morning of horror in September 2001, President Obama declared an end to the war in Afghanistan provoked by al-Qaida's atrocities.It had about as much fanfare as the science fair Obama celebrated hours...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Viewer's Guide to 2014 and Early 2015]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/all-powers/torpor-before-temper-a-viewer-s-guide-to-2014-and-early-2015-20140513</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the remainder of this year, Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Year of Action'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' will yield precisely what it has already'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'incremental policy changes torturously wrapped in ever-more-garish spin garb. The act will wear thin; Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s narrative, such as it is, will flatten; and Republican...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Punch and Judy Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/all-powers/obama-s-punch-and-judy-foreign-policy-20140429</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MANILA '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' For President Obama, caution in the defense of liberty is no vice, and militarism in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Obama didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t come to Asia to paraphrase Barry Goldwater'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s acceptance speech at the 1964 Republican National Convention. But he did after...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Tries to Put Putin in His Place--Again]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/all-powers/obama-tries-to-put-putin-in-his-place-again-20140325</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Moments after deflecting a question about his diminished influence on the world stage, President Obama described Russia as a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'regional power'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' operating in Crimea out of weakness, not strength.Noting Russia'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s long-standing influence in all of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The CIA Director Does a Tap Dance]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/all-powers/accused-of-spying-on-congress-cia-director-tap-dances-20140311</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CIA Director John Brennan denied credible allegations of spying on Congress'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a federal crime'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'leveled by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein with a classic Washington evasion.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'We wouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t do that,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Brennan said during an appearance before...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Obama's Squeeze Box Working on Russia?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/all-powers/obama-s-got-a-squeeze-box-20140306</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA["It's sort of like an accordion."That was White House press secretary Jay Carney's description of economic sanctions the administration might impose on nefarious Russians or Ukrainian kleptocrats at the center of the Crimean crisis.President Obama is all about flexibility. Of course,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Papa John (Boehner) Delivers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/all-powers/papa-john-delivers-20140218</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Papa John Boehner delivers.He always has, in his own curious and circuitous way.But Papa John's efficiency and reliability, at least in some neighborhoods, have improved.The starchiest cliche in the Obama White House since 2011 has been that House Speaker John Boehner couldn't deliver a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Arbitrary Health Care Flexibility]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/all-powers/obama-s-arbitrary-health-care-flexibility-20140211</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Affordable Care Act means what it says and says what it means.Until it doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t.The arbiter is President Obama and a phalanx of health care advisers and political strategists.Together, they try to implement what even Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s heartiest loyalists concede is an onerous and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are Fewer People Looking for Jobs?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/all-powers/why-are-fewer-people-looking-for-jobs-20140121</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'm not an economist.I don't even pretend to be one on television.But something has been nagging at me through the aftermath of the Great Recession, and it's the labor-force participation rate, which enumerates Americans who have a job and Americans who want a job. The LFPR has fallen...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Health Law Faces a &quot;Crisis of Confidence&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/all-powers/obama-s-crisis-of-confidence-20131105</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'The launching of the Affordable Care Act has been more than bumpy,'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Mikulski said. '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'I believe there'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s been a crisis of confidence created in the dysfunctional nature of the website, the canceling of policies, and sticker shock from some people. We read in The Baltimore Sun this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Debate Obama Never Wanted]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/all-powers/the-debate-obama-never-wanted-20130813</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Edward Snowden has put words in President Obama's mouth. Words like transparency, reform, openness, and debate.This is not necessarily cause for celebration or condemnation. It is, however, a fact. That the White House refuses to acknowledge this is testament to the policy-altering...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Enthusiasm for Detroit Withers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/all-powers/enthusiasm-expressed-in-obama-s-2011-detroit-speech-withers-in-bankruptcy-s-wake-20130723</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/all-powers/enthusiasm-expressed-in-obama-s-2011-detroit-speech-withers-in-bankruptcy-s-wake-20130723]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama considers himself an excellent judge of his own speeches, something worth remembering in advance of Wednesday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s newest economic-policy address at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill.Here is Obama on Obama at a gathering Monday night of Organizing for America staff and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Democrats, It's Already Legacy Time]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/all-powers/for-democrats-it-s-already-legacy-time-20130625</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama is fond of saying he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not on the ballot again, because it deceptively suggests he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s no longer acting politically or with calculation for the next election.Obama isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t running for reelection, but he is methodically setting the stage on which Democrats will...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Questions About Obama &amp; the First Amendment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/all-powers/obama-pushes-to-accommodate-not-protect-freedom-of-the-press-20130521</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unconstitutional. Sweeping. Secretive. Abusive. Harassing.Gary Pruitt, the president and CEO of the Associated Press, used those words on CBS's Face the Nation to describe the Justice Department's seizure of two months of AP reporters' phone records in New York, Washington, and Hartford,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Lost Memory of Thatcher, Reagan &amp; John Paul II]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/all-powers/the-lives-of-thatcher-reagan-and-pope-john-paul-ii-prove-presence-counts-remembering-doesn-t-20130409</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is both cruel and instructive that the three pivotal and decisive foes of communism'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'had, in all likelihood, no memory of their world-transforming triumph when each stepped into the great beyond.If you were a world...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ghost of Paul Simon Haunts Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/all-powers/the-ghost-of-paul-simon-haunts-obama-20130326</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Washington has long since forgotten the late Sen. Paul Simon, an Illinois Democrat who came to politics a most unnatural way. Simon was a journalist first, academic second, and politician third. Anyone who can build a credible life in politics "'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Simon was in the House from 1975 to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Republicans Came to Love the Sequester Cuts]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/all-powers/how-republicans-came-to-love-automatic-spending-cuts-20130205</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You know things are upside-down when Republicans quote Bob Woodward more than Ayn Rand. House and Senate Republicans might as well start their own QVC-style network to hawk Woodward's book The Price of Politics. The GOP fetish over Woodward is both historically ironic (see: Nixon,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Needs a Better Understanding of Republicans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/all-powers/why-obama-needs-a-better-understanding-of-republicans-20130115</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/all-powers/why-obama-needs-a-better-understanding-of-republicans-20130115]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama is of one mind on debts, deficits, and spending. They are not a problem. More precisely, they are not a problem that requires an overhaul of current spending patterns. In the heat of December'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s fiscal-cliff negotiations, Obama told House Speaker John Boehner that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama at the Hinge of History]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/obama-at-the-hinge-of-history-20121108</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Both presidential candidates spoke grandly and with evident passion about an epochal choice that voters held in their hands, about a hinge of American history where, in the next four years, intractable problems would be confronted, transformative decisions made, and a new path...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fundamentals of Election 2012]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/whitehouse/flawed-political-fundamentals-which-matter-most-which-will-decide--20121106</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every presidential election brings noise, strife, passion and energy. Those who ride herd over the process, the candidates, face Election Day with a frizzled, manic fatigue. And they are the lucky ones.The most insufferable moment for campaign strategists is Election Day. Not because...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Frayed Nerves For Both Campaigns]]></title>
							<link>http://nationaljournal.com/whitehouse/team-obama-preening-romney-camp-eye-rolling-frayed-nerves-for-both-20121104?page=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Question? Call us at 800-207-8001 '&#'.ord('|').';' Sign In '&#'.ord('|').';' Learn About MembershipBy Major Garrett National polls show Presient Obama (left) and Mitt Romney (right) are locked in a statistical tie.If preening made a sound you could hear it from President Obama's reelection headquarters all across the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nervous Campaigns See Two Different Universes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/whitehouse/team-obama-preening-romney-camp-eye-rolling-frayed-nerves-for-both-20121104?page=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If preening made a sound you could hear it from President Obama's reelection headquarters all across the land.And if eye-rolling could be heard it would reverberate from Mitt Romney's Boston headquarters and deafen legions of unsuspecting citizens.Obama's team preens because it is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ticket-Splitting May Shift Power Balance]]></title>
							<link>http://nationaljournal.com/columns/all-powers/debate-may-signal-ticket-splitting-20121023</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Red Rock Amphitheatre Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012, in Golden, Colo.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The most fascinating dynamic of election night might not be the regimented partisan alignment everyone is...]]></description>
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							<link>http://nationaljournal.com/politics/what-s-next-in-the-obama-romney-duel-20121017?page=2</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Obama advisers contend that the president's criticism of Romney's record at Hofstra stopped his momentum cold and that the economy will remain a threat to Obama. But they added that Romney's own weaknesses--contestable job-creation numbers linked to his 5-point jobs plan, lack of...]]></description>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Major Garrett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Question? Call us at 800-207-8001 '&#'.ord('|').';' Sign In '&#'.ord('|').';' Learn About MembershipBy Major GarrettPresident Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney participate in the second presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., on Tuesday.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' From now until the third and...]]></description>
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