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<title><![CDATA[Philip Bump - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/24236.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Philip Bump]]></description><category domain="24236">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[GOP Resorts to Ridiculous Argument To Defend SAVE Act]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/save-act-worst-voter-id-argument-republicans</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans defending the SAVE Act ask, You have to use an ID to show you're 21 if you want to drink, so why not do the same for voting? Here's why that's nonsensical.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gabbard Can't Be Trusted To Investigate Elections]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/tulsi-gabbard-trump-elections-georgia-fulton-county</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'BREAKING,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' it said. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has just released HUNDREDS OF BOMBSHELL RUSSIAGATE DOCUMENTS proving that Barack Obama personally ordered CIA agents to manufacture false intelligence on President Trump.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Epstein Files Sinkhole Widening Under Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-epstein-emails-files-republican-allies-rcna243787</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[These polls suggest the issue is a bigger problem than the president wants to admit.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McDaniel Quickly Demonstrates Her View Isn&rsquo;t Worth the Cost]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ronna-mcdaniel-quickly-demonstrates-that-her-view-isn-t-worth-the-cost/ar-BB1kv9C4?ocid=windirect&amp;cvid=30627188e9b249b181771674d1cee160&amp;ei=12</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not a lot of value for journalists in interviewing an echo. Instead of standing inside a canyon trying to ask follow-up questions of the words bouncing off the walls around you, better to just go to the source.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Other Risk from the East Palestine Disaster]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-other-risk-from-the-east-palestine-disaster/ar-AA17tXsB</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's enormous uncertainty following the train derailment, including about the risks that the chemicals and fire pose. But that uncertainty applies to worst-case scenarios, too.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Right Has Finally Found the Real Insurrection]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-right-has-finally-found-the-real-insurrection/ar-AAWTbBN?li=BBnbfcL</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion has provided a chance for Republicans to try to flip the script.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What the Debate Over U.S. Being a &lsquo;Racist Country&rsquo; Is About]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/what-the-back-and-forth-over-america-being-a-racist-country-is-actually-about/ar-BB1gbwuZ?li=BBnb7Kz</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The speeches given in response to presidential addresses are never really'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' responses, as such. Given that the two speeches air back-to-back, there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s very little opportunity for the opposition party to tailor its rhetoric specifically to what the president is saying, so the speeches...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Did Matt Gaetz Know?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/when-did-matt-gaetz-know/ar-BB1fomAQ?li=BBnb7Kz</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hours after the New York Times first reported that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) was under investigation by the Justice Department, he appeared on Tucker Carlson'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Fox News program to defend himself.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Sanctuary Cities Plan Isn't a Punishment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/12/white-house-wanted-send-migrants-cities-with-lot-immigrants/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The subtext to The Washington Post'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s report that President Trump and his administration wanted to drop migrants entering the United States into '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'sanctuary cities'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t subtle: The intent was punishment, a form of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'retaliation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' against heavily Democratic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McConnell Finds a Novel Villain After NC's Fraud-Riddled Election]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/26/mitch-mcconnell-has-found-real-culprit-north-carolinas-fraud-riddled-election-democrats/?utm_term=.d5c4985dfd92</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What we know happened in North Carolina last fall isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t that complicated.What we know happened in North Carolina last fall isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t that complicated.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Ties Unfounded Florida Claims to Russia Conspiracies]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/09/trump-ties-his-unfounded-allegations-voter-fraud-florida-his-russia-conspiracy-theory/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gov. Rick Scott'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s (R-Fla.) dwindling lead in Florida'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Senate race has spurred no small amount of alarm within his campaign and his party.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Approval Polls: Beware Outliers, Remember the Trends]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/04/16/five-things-to-keep-in-mind-whenever-trump-tweets-about-polling/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.d01ec3edc2d4</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the third time in two weeks, President Trump on Sunday touted poll numbers that showed half the country approving of the job he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s doing as president.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Decimation of the Democratic Party, Visualized]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/10/the-decimation-of-the-democratic-party-visualized/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's a certain type of pedant who gets mad if you use the word "decimated" inaccurately, the accurate usage being that it refers to the culling of a tenth of something, hence the prefix deci- which, as we all know, is a Latin-born numeric reference blah blah blah pedants am i right'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump Is Finally Seeing Signs of Life in Key Swing States]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/08/donald-trump-is-finally-seeing-signs-of-life-in-key-swing-states/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'm getting to the point where I know that I'm being repetitive, and I know that I sort of have to be, but that I feel the need to predicate my repetitiveness with a self-indulgent recognition of that repetitiveness, so that if you, the reader, also noticed that I have been repetitive,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Response to Trump Black Outreach? Clinton Ad Features the Klan]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/25/hillary-clintons-response-to-trumps-black-voter-outreach-an-ad-featuring-the-klan/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The spot'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' was released a few hours before a planned Hillary Clinton speech tying Donald Trump to the "alt-right," a nebulous term usually used to describe a group of online pro-Trump trolls who have often used racist or anti-Semitic images to show their support. The alt-right is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump's Pitch for the Black Vote Won't Work]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/20/its-hard-to-imagine-a-much-worse-pitch-donald-trump-could-have-made-for-the-black-vote/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/20/its-hard-to-imagine-a-much-worse-pitch-donald-trump-could-have-made-for-the-black-vote/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At a rally Friday night in Dimondale, Mich., Donald Trump repeated a version of a plea to black voters that he had offered 24 hours earlier in North Carolina.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' "No group in America has been more harmed by Hillary Clinton's policies than African Americans," he said, apparently pointing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What If Joe Biden Had Run?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/03/what-would-have-happened-if-joe-biden-had-run/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's the first thought that enters Vice President Biden's head every morning, the moment his bedroom windows at One Observatory Circle grow light from the sun. "What if," Joe Biden thinks.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' "What if I had run?"'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The race for the Democratic presidential nomination was never supposed to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sanders Runs Out of Arguments for How He Can Win]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/06/08/bernie-sanders-has-run-out-of-arguments-for-how-he-can-win/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders's campaign has hustle. That's hustle in the work-hard, keep-it-together-when-it's-falling-apart sense -- and, a bit, in the three-card-monte sense. As the campaign has progressed and Sanders's chances went from zero to 49 percent, the campaign created acascading set of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sanders Can Force a Contested Convention. But He Can't Win It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/02/yes-bernie-sanders-can-force-a-contested-convention-that-doesnt-mean-he-can-win-one/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the Democratic presidential nomination system working the way it does, there are essentially two possible outcomes: A candidate will either win in a blowout, or he or she will need superdelegate votes to gain a majority.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The reason for this is simple: Fifteen percent of all of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No, General Election Polling Still Doesn't Tell Us Much]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/05/no-general-election-polling-still-doesnt-tell-us-much/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/05/no-general-election-polling-still-doesnt-tell-us-much/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a lot of information contained in polling. In addition to the simple horse race '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' who's going to win and by how much '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' there's information about demographic responses to candidates and issues and about how those attitudes have evolved over time. In fact, for some...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Warning Signs in Clinton's Shocking Michigan Loss]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/08/the-two-big-warning-signs-for-hillary-clinton-in-michigan/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton lost the Michigan primary on Tuesday night, and the state pried open two critical seams holding her candidacy together.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' This isn't a fatal blow, but rather than punctuating a moment of triumph for Clinton, the state shows that the fight is, at least, pretty far from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Meaning of Cruz's Surge in Louisiana]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/06/ted-cruzs-huge-surge-in-election-day-voting-in-louisiana/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/06/ted-cruzs-huge-surge-in-election-day-voting-in-louisiana/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of two things happened in Louisiana. We know that the margins between the top three candidates in the state shifted dramatically between votes cast by absentee ballot and those cast on Saturday, the day of the election. That means that either that: 1) A candidate had a very strong...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Christie Can Do for Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/26/chris-christies-value-to-donald-trump-doesnt-lie-in-the-votes-hell-bring/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For as much as we agitate about new endorsements in the presidential race from candidates who've dropped out, it's always worth remembering that people leave the race because they don't have much support. Chris Christie,who on Friday stunned observers with an endorsement of Donald Trump,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Clinton's Firewall Hold?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/17/hillary-clintons-firewall-may-be-missing-some-bricks/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you were to scoop up a handful of Democratic primary voters from any one of the early primary states, they'd generally contain a pretty similar demographic mix, for the most part. 2016 so far is shaking out like the electorate in 2008: Slightly more women, generally older, a more...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats May Have an Enthusiasm Problem in 2016]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/10/democrats-may-have-an-enthusiasm-problem-in-2016/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The defining characteristic of Bernie Sanders's early surge in the 2016 presidential race was his crowds. Big swarms of people waving blue signs and cheering on the unexpected Democratic contender, a physical manifestation of the narrowing gap between himself and Hillary Clinton....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump: Accuses Ted Cruz of Stealing Iowa, Demands New Caucus]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/03/donald-trump-tweets-that-ted-cruz-stole-iowa-illegally-and-quickly-deletes-the-illegally/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton's Early-State Polls Go From Bad to Nightmare]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/19/hillary-clintons-early-state-poll-numbers-just-went-from-bad-to-nightmare/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are two groups of people that are excited about the new CNN/WMUR poll of Democrats in New Hampshire: Bernie Sanders fans and political pundits.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Both are excited because this poll is a doozy of the blink-twice, ask-a-co-worker-if-you're-reading-the-numbers-correctly variety. Since...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Could Trump Actually Win the Presidency?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/05/if-donald-trump-can-win-the-republican-nomination-he-could-probably-win-the-presidency/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In The Post's exhaustive look at the exhausting first year of the 2016 cycle, an unexpected person comes to Donald Trump's defense.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' "I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m not one of these people that think that Donald Trump can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t win a general election," Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Still Too Early to Pick Winners in Iowa and NH]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/06/why-its-still-too-early-to-pick-winners-in-iowa-and-new-hampshire/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As it stands, Donald Trump leads the rest of the Republican field in New Hampshire by a nearly two-to-one margin, according to Real Clear Politics' polling average. Two to one! Fine. Done. He gets that state. In Iowa, Hillary Clinton leads Bernie Sanders by 12 points -- only one point...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Last Days of the NY Mob]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-last-days-of-the-new-york-mob/2015/11/28/987840b0-8de3-11e5-acff-673ae92ddd2b_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Bump</author>
							<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' This month, a New York jury reached a verdict regarding the Lufthansa heist, the notorious theft of $5'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' million in cash and nearly $1'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' million in jewels from a Lufthansa terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in 1978.The crime was immortalized by the movie...]]></description>
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