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<title><![CDATA[Celinda Lake - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/26135.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Celinda Lake]]></description><category domain="26135">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How Dems Win: More Bernie &amp; AOC, Less Kamala Harris]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/09/02/democrats-2026-election-trump-voters/85849056007/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Celinda Lake</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new poll suggests many voters skipped the 2024 election because they didn't want to vote for the lesser of two evils.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This November, Voters Chose Price Tag Over Awkward Conversation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/11/27/this_november_voters_chose_price_tag_over_awkward_conversation_152008.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Celinda Lake</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Discussing politics on Thanksgiving is a tradition that many of us could live without, but can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t seem to get away from. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s especially poignant every four years after the tidal shifts accompanying presidential elections. This year, we saw remarkable outcomes, most notably that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gen Z Voters Are Distrustful and Unenthusiastic]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2024/06/07/gen-z-voters-biden-trump-2024/73968963007/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Celinda Lake</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today's young people are sour on public institutions, existing power structures and even the country compared to older Americans.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[SCOTUS Abortion Pill Ruling May Doom Trump This Nov]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2024/03/27/supreme-court-mifepristone-ruling-biden-trump-election/73106031007/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Celinda Lake</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the Supreme Court decided to restrict mifepristone, it would energize Democrats on an issue that has proved effective for them at the ballot box.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unhappy 'Double Haters' May Decide 2024 Election]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2024/03/04/trump-biden-unhappy-voters-presidential-election-democrat-republican/72788422007/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Celinda Lake</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden and Donald Trump need to give 'double-unfavorable' voters something to vote for, not just something to vote against.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Thanksgiving, Embrace the Politics Talk &ndash; Respectfully]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/11/24/this_thanksgiving_embrace_the_politics_talk__respectfully_148511.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Celinda Lake</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It happens at family dinner tables all over the country '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' the dreaded Thanksgiving politics discussion. Everyone has their own strategy for dealing with it, everything from ignoring the conversation, to getting up and leaving the room, to engaging in a full-throated verbal war that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Memo to Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/politics/a-memo-to-democrats/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Celinda Lake</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The four of us have been around politics a long time. We have been a part of some of the Democratic Party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s biggest victories; we have seen some big losses. In the 2022 election, things are as close as we have ever seen them. But we are right on the edge of overcoming historical...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can We Detoxify the Discourse?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/08/25/can_we_detoxify_the_discourse_144046.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Celinda Lake</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Historically, times of major national crisis have typically brought us together, as Americans united behind a sense of common purpose. But according to new polling data, voters think this summer'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s triple crises of COVID-19, an increased spotlight on racial injustice, and a sharp...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Absent Populist Economics, Dems Will Lose]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/absent-more-progressive-economics-democrats-will-lose</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Celinda Lake</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The staggering results of last November'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s election should be a reminder to Democrats that the racially diverse, young, educated, unmarried (women), and urban voters who comprised a significant portion of the Obama coalition do not constitute an inexorable path to Electoral College...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Republican Revival in 2014?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/despite-autopsy-gop-could-have-revival-in-2014-89714.html?hp=l9</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Celinda Lake</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When the Republican National Committee released its so-called autopsy of the 2012 presidential campaign last month, it candidly predicted that Republicans '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'will lose future elections'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' if they are unable to attract more women and minority voters. While long-term demographic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New Voters, New Values]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/new-voters-new-values</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Celinda Lake</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama would have lost the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections had a new set of voters not joined the American electorate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'voters who brought with them a range of values that differed sharply from those of more traditional voters. These changing values'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'on such issues as...]]></description>
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