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<title><![CDATA[Theodore Johnson - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/27257.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Theodore Johnson]]></description><category domain="27257">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[America May Elect First Black GOP Gov This Year]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/08/26/byron-donaldss-win-florida-exposes-new-rules-party-politics/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Top-down control and bottom-up insurgency are changing the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s politics.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Doubled His Support w/Black Voters]]></title>
							<link>https://www.pressreader.com/usa/call-and-times/20250926/281543707096631</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New data shows historic gains made by the president among this racial demographic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Makes an About-Face on Red &amp; Blue America]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The former president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s support of California'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s redistricting plan promotes the partisan divide.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Owe Their Senate Control to Black Voters]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/14/democrats-owe-new-control-senate-black-voters-georgia</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's also worth remembering that the success of candidates like Raphael Warnock is a product of years of voter engagement]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Black Voters Hold Buttigieg and Biden's Fates]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/13/pete-buttigieg-joe-biden-democratic-primary</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The disparity between the two contenders' coalitions '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' and the states in which they're strong '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' means as one rises, the other is likely to fall]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How 2018 Became the 'Year of the Black Progressive']]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/19/black-democrats-progressives-primaries-abrams-gillum-pressley-2018-221610</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[White Democrats are becoming more liberal; black Democrats aren't. That fact is driving black candidates to win by executing a savvy strategy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Yes, Republicans Can Win Black Voters]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426146/republican-party-black-voters</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On October 2012, just as presidential campaigning had reached fever pitch, I was raking leaves in the front yard of my northern-Virginia home when I noticed a pack of volunteers clad in '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Romney 2012'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' T-shirts canvassing the neighborhood door to door, engaging residents and...]]></description>
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