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<title><![CDATA[Carter Eskew - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/24859.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Carter Eskew]]></description><category domain="24859">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Can Northam Hold Off Gillespie's Surge in Virginia?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2017/11/01/can-ralph-northam-hold-off-ed-gillespies-surge-in-virginia/?utm_term=.21273da0d228</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Carter Eskew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the Democrats&rsquo; strategy for winning the governor&rsquo;s race in Virginia is to convince people that Ralph Northam can lose, they are doing a really good job. I am worried they are right. My inbox has been flooded with increasingly hysterical messages warning that the race is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Scary Illogic of Pro-Life]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/04/01/the-scary-illogic-of-pro-life/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Carter Eskew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here&rsquo;s what I don&rsquo;t understand: If abortion is murder, why shouldn&rsquo;t women be penalized? After saying women should face legal consequences for having an abortion, Donald Trump quickly retreated to the &ldquo;politically correct&rdquo; antiabortion position that abortion...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton's Opportune Moment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/06/24/hillary-clintons-opportune-moment/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Carter Eskew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton isn&rsquo;t having a particularly good month, but it doesn&rsquo;t matter because President Obama is having an even worse one.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Resiliency of the New York Times]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/05/22/the-resiliency-of-the-new-york-times/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Carter Eskew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The New York Times remains a source of political controversy, but its importance to our democracy has never been greater. Information is perhaps democracy&rsquo;s most valuable currency, and as news institutions have shrunk, morphed into &ldquo;click bait&rdquo; shops or disappeared...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Karl Rove's Unhealthy Political Tactics]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/05/15/karl-roves-unhealthy-political-tacticts/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Carter Eskew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The other day I wrote about Karl Rove&rsquo;s comment about Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s health and how it mirrored the tactics of his mentor Lee Atwater. My post was in the context of whether Rove, like Atwater, might one day come to regret some of his actions. Today, I would like to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Colbert's New Stint Is Good for Democrats]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/04/11/stephen-colberts-new-stint-is-a-good-thing-for-democrats/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Carter Eskew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two interesting and important political transitions were announced this week: Sylvia Mathews Burwell as the nominee to replace Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Stephen Colbert to replace David Letterman.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Must Defend Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/03/12/after-florida-democrats-should-defend-obamacare/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Carter Eskew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What to make of last night&rsquo;s Republican victory in the Florida special election?  As political commentator Paul Begala tweeted, it&rsquo;s hard to spin it as other than a stinging defeat for Democrats.  And, I would add, as a harbinger of bad tidings for the November midterms.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Obama's Speech Can Be Memorable]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/01/27/how-obamas-sotu-speech-can-be-memorable/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Carter Eskew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Have there been  lower expectations for  a State of the Union speech in recent memory? In  comparison to the same moments in the presidential terms of Clinton 1998 and Bush 2006, President Obama&rsquo;s speech tomorrow night seems forgotten before he even delivers it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Message to Republicans: Moderates Win]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/11/05/message-to-republicans-moderates-win/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Carter Eskew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While off-year elections suffer from a surfeit of interpretation, it&rsquo;s hard not to see the victories of Christie and McAuliffe as sending a similar  message: Republicans must be moderate to win.Mr. McAuliffe was a cipher of a candidate who was saved in the end by Mr....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans' Losing Economic Argument]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/07/23/the-republicans-are-losing-the-economic-argument/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Carter Eskew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans are greeting President Obama&#194;&#146;s summer push on the economy with derision. To Speaker Boehner and others, the president seems like an aging rock star whose recycled hits became stale years ago. Yet he still tours, playing to smaller and smaller arenas.While the president is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Are Chasing a Mirage]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/07/11/the-insiders-republicans-are-chasing-a-mirage/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Carter Eskew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Looking at broad political dynamics, it&rsquo;s hard to see one issue the Republicans are winning right now and easy to find several where they are doing themselves damage.Let&rsquo;s start with health care, where Republicans are emboldened by the disarray in implementation of the new...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's New Ad Sign of Shift in Race?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-insiders/post/is-obamas-new-ad-a-sign-of-a-shift-in-the-race/2012/07/24/gJQAhclI7W_blog.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Carter Eskew</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This evening, one of the more influential national polls, from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal, will release its latest findings. If it reports some of the same weakness for Obama as the recent New York Times-CBS News poll did, we can conclude the race has shifted in Romney's...]]></description>
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