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<title><![CDATA[Jon Favreau - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/26585.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jon Favreau]]></description><category domain="26585">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[What Voters Want in 2020]]></title>
							<link>https://crooked.com/articles/2020-what-voters-want/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Favreau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I did my best Frank Luntz impression with four different focus groups of swing voters in states that will help decide the 2020 election. This was a project for the second season of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Wilderness,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a podcast I host'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' about how the Democratic Party can win again, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I Learned to Love Hillary Clinton and So Can You]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/22/hey-berniacs-i-learned-to-love-hillary-and-so-can-you.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Favreau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In late May of 2008, there was a bit of a misunderstanding that briefly blew the tent off the circus that was the Democratic primary. The context was an interview where Hillary Clinton responded to criticism from unnamed Obama advisors (hi guys) who accused her of dragging on a contest...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Republican Party Became a Failed State]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/13/how-the-republican-party-became-a-failed-state.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Favreau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m a Democrat who believes that we need a healthy Republican Party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a party that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s strong in the places ours is weak.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Democrats need Republicans to point out where tax dollars are being wasted, programs are being abused, and regulations aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t worth the cost. We...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama Fans Need to Vote for Hillary Clinton]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/26/why-electing-hillary-in-16-is-more-important-than-electing-obama-in-08.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Favreau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I hear you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re still not Ready for Hillary.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' I get it. I didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t start off as her biggest fan either. During the 2008 campaign, I wrote plenty of less-than-complimentary words about Hillary Clinton in my role as Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s speechwriter. Then, a few weeks after the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Obama Prepares for the State of the Union]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/28/how-obama-prepares-for-the-grueling-state-of-the-union.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Favreau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of reasons to think that the State of the Union address is a huge waste of everyone'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s time.For one thing, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s really long. Imagine if a friend asked you to sit quietly for nearly an hour while he spoke with great detail and flourish about his many plans for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hope and Change in the Vatican]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/04/the-social-minded-pope-francis-is-a-very-different-kind-of-pontiff.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Favreau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Add my name to the long list of souls who have leapt aboard the Pope Francis bandwagon. The People'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Pontiff might just provide the most hopeful development for world affairs in 2014.I have a longstanding personal interest here. Growing up in a small, middle-class suburb of Boston,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Health Care Law Is Worth Fighting For]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/18/president-obama-should-never-apologize-for-passing-obamacare.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Favreau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s true what they say: Barack Obama does not relish the game of politics. Don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t get me wrong'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'as the first president in more than five decades to win more than 51 percent of the vote twice, he understands how the game is played. The man knows how to read a poll, and he is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Tea Party Is the Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/21/the-tea-party-not-democrats-or-republicans-is-the-problem.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Favreau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So now that our government is open and able to pay its bills, what soon-to-be-forgotten lessons have we learned from this sorry fiasco?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republican Hostage-Takers Unfit to Govern]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/30/house-republican-hostage-takers-are-unfit-to-govern.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Favreau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most terrifying speech I ever wrote for President Obama was one he never gave. On July 30, 2011, I began drafting an address to the nation about what would happen if Congress refused to raise the debt limit within 48 hours, thus denying the United States Treasury the ability to pay...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The President's War for Peace]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/10/jon-favreau-on-obama-s-war-for-peace.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Favreau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forget the politics. Forget the whip counts. Forget all the overblown theatrics. Forget about what President Obama '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'has to do'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' in his speech Tuesday night. What we have to do is listen, think, and then make a decision together, as a nation, about how to respond to a humanitarian...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Destructive Rise of No-Govt Conservatives]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/30/jon-favreau-on-the-destructive-rise-of-the-no-government-conservatives.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Favreau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m not talking about a battle between moderates and conservatives. The conservatives won that fight a long time ago. Our children may never believe that moderate Republicans once roamed the Earth, advocating policies that would limit carbon pollution and invest in scientific...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Is the GOP So Scared of Obamacare?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/11/the-gop-is-terrified-obamacare-could-be-a-success.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Favreau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I know, we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re all supposed to think the End Is Nigh because the government has decided to give the 10 percent of large employers who don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t insure their workers another 365 days to do so before levying a small penalty. This could not possibly be a reasonable accommodation to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Rush to Overhype Obama's &quot;Scandals&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/24/when-journalists-attack.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Favreau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you saw the news at any point in the last month, chances are that you heard Barack Obama compared in some way to Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal (BuzzFeed has my favorite compilation here). A quick and admittedly unscientific Google search on the comparisons turns up 1.7...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Millennials Are Rejecting the Republican Party]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/05/college-republican-national-committee-report-has-grim-findings-for-gop.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Favreau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you were among the roughly 97 percent of Americans who didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t tune into one of the Sunday shows this weekend, you might not realize that the only two issues currently worthy of sustained national debate are the stupidity of some IRS bureaucrats and the overzealousness of some...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Obama Handles Crisis]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/20/how-obama-handles-crisis.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Favreau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Honestly, they act like it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s his first crisis.Sometime after the infamous Denver debate last fall, which by most media accounts should have forced the President to immediately quit the race and resign in shame, a few of us who had been with him since the earliest days tried to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Blame Obama. Blame Yourself]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/03/leading-from-below.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Favreau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He added the words in one of the later drafts. The announcement speech had been missing something, a direct response to the creeping cynicism of the previous decade. Why would this time be any different? What was so special about this political novice, that he thought he could solve all...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Yes, Sequestration Is Actually Bad]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/08/yes-sequestration-is-actually-bad.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Favreau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From the outset, Washington never treated the sequester with the seriousness it deserves. And really, who would have expected otherwise? The word is a verb being used as a noun to describe $85 billion in defense and domestic discretionary cuts to the federal budget. I almost fell asleep...]]></description>
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