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<title><![CDATA[Steve Erickson - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/24369.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Steve Erickson]]></description><category domain="24369">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama's Political Survival Matters]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/obamas-lie</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama is given to the long view, which comes in handy for a man at his particular nadir in this particular moment. More than the vexing and inexplicably botched launch of the Affordable Care Act, the president has been undone by ten words uttered enough times so as to feel...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Grand Old Jurassic Party]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican Party is a presidential election away from extinction. If it can't win the 2016 contest, and unless it has bolstered its congressional presence beyond the benefits of gerrymandered redistricting"&rdquo;which is to say not only retaking the Senate but polling more votes...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I Was a Teenage Conservative]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/i-was-teenage-conservative</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barry Goldwater was my first political hero. The most antiauthoritarian figure in mainstream American politics, who said what he thought without giving a damn, he looked and sounded as Western as Arizona, the state he represented in the Senate. Goldwater and John Kennedy hatched plans in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Obama Beats Romney]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/how-obama-beats-romney</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By the time his motorcade pulled up to Magness Arena on the campus of the University of Denver at 6:40 local time Wednesday evening, October 3, the president knew he had 20 minutes to make a decision. The campaign of his opponent, Governor Mitt Romney, had so deteriorated that, for his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Staring Into the Void of Mitt Romney]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/staring-void-mitt-romney</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the things we&rsquo;ll learn this presidential election is whether the Republican Party can survive itself. As we&rsquo;ve seen in the ten days since Governor Mitt Romney picked Congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate, and most acutely in the last 72 hours since the fiasco...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney, 2012's Trojan Horse]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/romney-2012s-trojan-horse</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney is running as the Trojan Horse candidate of 2012, the big empty gift to America who will be wheeled into the gates of Election Night only for the bottom to pop out the next morning and whatever lurks inside to reveal itself. Watching his small disaster of an interview on Face...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama, Post-Post-Partisanship]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/obama-post-post-partisanship</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the past month or two, as the president&rsquo;s political position has continued to erode and he becomes more vulnerable, an extraordinary and vaguely preposterous conversation has taken shape. Variations on it have been advanced by everyone from former presidents chatting with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Presidency in the Balance]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/obama-balance</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To anyone so foolish as to have persuaded himself otherwise, the past three weeks have been a reminder that Barack Obama is at best a slight favorite for re-election by a narrow margin.  Rick Santorum&rsquo;s exit on Wednesday from a Republican primary race that already was settled means...]]></description>
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