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							<title><![CDATA[Americans Elect Can Solve Gridlock in the Country]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doug Bailey and Les Francis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the 2012 World Series underway, we die-hard Washington Nationals fans can't help but wonder what might have been.
And with the presidential debates behind us and the election about a week away, we longtime warriors in the partisan trenches -- who decided some time ago to try to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bipartisan Convention Flubs: Blame the Consultants]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doug Bailey and Les Francis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since today's consultants don't hesitate to talk publicly about their campaigns or their candidates, we've decided that a couple of has-beens shouldn't hesitate to write publicly about today's consultants. A couple of weeks ago, we laid the ground work for the discussion with a column...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Taking Political Consultants to Task]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/07/26/taking_political_consultants_to_task_114908.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doug Bailey and Les Francis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Watergate&rsquo;s &ldquo;Deep Throat&rdquo; taught us, there is no better rule for understanding American politics than &ldquo;follow the money.&rdquo; Unfortunately, that phrase has also become the guiding principle for too many political practitioners.
And we don&rsquo;t mean the...]]></description>
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