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<title><![CDATA[David Freedlander - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/21605.xml</link><description><![CDATA[David Freedlander]]></description><category domain="21605">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Book Dems Hate--and Can't Stop Talking About]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/the-new-book-democrats-hate-and-can-t-stop-talking-about/ar-AA2cSjpH</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whenever Democratic political operatives gather to drink these days, they talk about three things: their chances in the midterms, who will be the nominee in 2028, and if they have read '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' or are in '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the book.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Now Comes the Hard Part for El-Sayed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/el-sayed-pulls-it-off-now-comes-the-hard-part/ar-AA29sDRP</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Abdul El-Sayed, a public-health official who lost in a primary landslide when he ran for governor of Michigan eight years ago, eked out a victory over Representative Haley Stevens on Tuesday night in one of the most closely watched, bitterly contested and expensive Democratic Senate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cuomo's Delicate Quest for Republican Votes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/andrew-cuomo-s-delicate-quest-for-republican-votes/ar-AA1O8giP</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here is Andrew Cuomo'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s exquisite dilemma as the mayor'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s race careers toward its conclusion: New York is a Democratic town, one where Republicans are outnumbered six-to-one by their Democratic counterparts.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Andrew Cuomo on the Rematch Ahead]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/andrew-cuomo-on-his-loss-zohran-mamdani-s-win-and-the-rematch-ahead/ar-AA1IDjfW</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Andrew Cuomo admits now that he never saw Zohran Mamdani coming.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mamdani on Why He Won &amp; What Happens Next]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He beat Andrew Cuomo and the elite by upending how the city'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s politics was supposed to work.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside Mamdani&rsquo;s Triumph and Cuomo&rsquo;s Humiliation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/inside-mamdani-s-triumph-and-cuomo-s-humiliation/ar-AA1HmRxO?cvid=9bdde6206bf348508244799377e10550&amp;ei=17</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the end, it wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t just one neighborhood like one of those left-leaning precincts that line the waterfront from Astoria over to Red Hook.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NYC Mayor Race Has Begun. Everyone Is Frozen]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/the-mayoral-has-begun-everyone-is-frozen/ar-AA1wQibQ?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The race to be the next mayor of New York City kicked off on a Saturday morning in the South Bronx. It was late October, ten days before a presidential election that was by universal claim one with apocalyptic stakes, but that didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t stop five of the major declared contenders...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What If 'Woke' Didn't Cost Dems the Election?]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/aqvdB</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Democrats sift through the wreckage from November to figure out precisely how they lost to Donald Trump and the Republicans, the party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s conventional wisdom has congealed around a ready reason: Cultural progressivism alienated a great swath of the working class, which, across...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Dem Operatives Think Could Decide the Race]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/what-democratic-operatives-think-could-decide-the-election/ar-AA1tv9Yj</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If 2016 was a referendum on Hillary Clinton and the Clintonite turn in the Democratic Party after two terms of Barack Obama, and 2020 was a referendum on Trump and his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the theme of the 2024 election is still unknown.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harris Needs To Bring the Dem Coalition Back Home]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/at-the-end-it-s-trump-momentum-vs-the-harris-machine/ar-AA1synP0?ocid=BingNewsVerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With two weeks left to go, the contours of the 2024 presidential election are clear: Both campaigns need voters who usually don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t vote, and Kamala Harris needs to bring the Democratic coalition, including its Trump-curious members, back home.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How a Staunchly Blue State Let MAGA Seep In]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/02/inside-the-republican-rebound-in-new-york-00099420</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The small subterranean bar in Little Italy is as packed as every other downtown bar on a drizzly Friday night in early March, with what look like the same kind of scenesters you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d find in other clubs down the street. There are men in streetwear and women in slinky cocktail dresses,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Zeldin's Loss Is Making NY's GOP Ambitious Again]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-zeldin-s-loss-is-making-new-york-s-republican-party-ambitious-again/ar-AA13YFej</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' In his lone television debate with Kathy Hochul, Lee Zeldin was asked, given that he voted to overturn the 2020 election, if he would accept the results of the one he was in.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Eric Adams Vows a New Year's Comeback in NYC]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/mayor-adamss-big-beaming-debut.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After the old mayor dropped the ball, Eric Adams vowed a new year's comeback for the city he now runs. It's not yet clear what that will entail.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Eric Adams's Victory Tour Is Underway]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/11/eric-adamss-victory-tour-is-underway.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After a 40-point win, he all but promised to be a mayor that will keep the attention of New Yorkers.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Andrew Cuomo's Last Play to Hold Onto Power]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/andrew-cuomos-last-play-to-hold-onto-power.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He is not resigning, said one ally. It is just not in his nature to ever do that.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How on Earth Does Cuomo Survive This?]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/how-does-andrew-cuomo-survive-sexual-harassment-report.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The sexual-harassment report wasn't a bombshell; it was a nuclear blast. And yet.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Eric Adams Did It]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/nyc-mayoral-race-results-2021-how-eric-adams-did-it.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The likely next mayor didn't look like it at the start of the campaign.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Confusion Is Winning the NYC Race for Mayor]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/06/nyc-mayoral-race-results-2021-board-of-elections-confusion.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The race was thrown into chaos when test votes were counted by mistake.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What If Cuomo Just Won't Go?]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/03/what-if-cuomo-just-wont-go.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[People close to the governor say there has been no talk of resigning. Meanwhile, he has been trying leverage enduring support from Black voters.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does the King of the Covid Contrarians Have a Case?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/does-the-king-of-the-covid-19-contrarians-have-a-case</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Alex Berenson, thriller writer, former Timesman, and marijuana alarmist, thinks scientists, politicians, and the media are fueling coronavirus hysteria. Some scientists think he's dead wrong. He should go back to school to learn some science, says one.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ocasio-Cortez Changes D.C.--It Hasn't Changed Her]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/01/aoc-first-year-in-washington.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[She reshaped her party's agenda, resuscitated Bernie Sanders's campaign, and hardly has a friend in town.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Bloomberg Could Win. Again.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2019/12/02/michael-bloomberg-win-new-york-mayor-race-074060</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He's getting in late. He's out of step with his party. The news media thinks he's a joke. All of that was true when he first ran for mayor of New York City, too.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Do Blue-Collar Dems Want What 'New Left' Is Delivering?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/30/democratic-party-culture-divide-wars-working-class-blue-collar-221913</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Energized progressives are thrilled with their momentum in the Trump era. But the party's blue-collar base might not want what the new left is delivering.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Judge in the Michael Cohen Case Is Perfect]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/04/19/judge-kimba-wood-michael-cohen-stormy-daniels-lawsuit-218055</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A porn star in the courtroom? The president's secrets at stake? Why Kimba Wood isn't even blinking.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kirsten Gillibrand's Moment Has Arrived]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/07/kirsten-gillibrand-profile-feature-sexual-assault-2017-216053</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The New York senator has made sexual assault the focus of her political career. Now, the world has caught up with her.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Left to Hillary: You're a Phony]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/22/left-to-hillary-you-re-a-phony.html?source=socialflow&amp;via=twitter_page&amp;account=thedailybeast&amp;medium=twitter</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Liberals have spent much of the past year trying to pull Hillary Clinton to the left, even betting behind a phantom Elizabeth Warren candidacy to exert pressure on her. But now that Clinton in the early going of her campaign sounds a lot like the senator from Massachusetts, progressives...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Tea Party Eats Their Own]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/06/tea-party-eats-their-own.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They arrived in January of 2011, unfamiliar with the ways of Washington, and promising never to adapt. The Republican freshman of the 112th Congress had helped take back the House, riding a Tea Party-infused, throw-the-bums-out wave of conservative disgust with career politicians. But...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Politics of Pot]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/14/the-new-politics-of-pot-the-2014-candidates-who-want-to-legalize-it.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After a round of victories at the ballot box, the spliff is trying its make case at the statehouse'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and on the stump.Advocates for marijuana legalization say the 2014 elections represent the first time that serious, top-tier candidates for major state and federal offices are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Christie Is Winning Over Hispanics]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/03/can-christie-win-latinos.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¿').';'Chris Christie, s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';' que puede?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' It certainly looks that way, with the New Jersey governor set to cruise to re-election over his Democratic opponent, Barbara Buono on Tuesday. And when you lead in the polls by more than thirty points'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'as Christie does'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the victory tends to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton's Soft Launch]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/26/hillary-clinton-s-soft-launch-in-upstate-new-york.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freedlander</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2008, Barack Obama promised to be a president who brought people together, inaugurating a new era for Washington, D.C. He pointed to his biography'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'his mixed-race ancestry, his limited experience in the partisan battles of the past'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'as a chance for a break from the rancor and gridlock...]]></description>
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