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<title><![CDATA[Scott Bland - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/27502.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Scott Bland]]></description><category domain="27502">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Liberal 'Dark-Money' Behemoth Funneled $400+ Million in '20]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/17/dark-money-sixteen-thirty-fund-522781</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Bland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Sixteen Thirty Fund sent the cash to groups that aided Democrats' efforts to unseat then-President Donald Trump and Republicans' Senate majority.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[11 'amazing races' to watch to understand the 2016 elections]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/11-amazing-races-to-watch-to-understand-the-2016-elections-217231</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Bland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[These campaigns for governor, Senate, and House will illuminate broader trends in American politics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Landrieu Doomed by White Flight From Southern Dems]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/white-flight-from-southern-democrats-doomed-landrieu-20141206</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Bland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats have been worried about the African-American vote in Louisiana for months. But what really doomed Sen. Mary Landrieu's reelection bid was the near-monolithic white vote against her.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Landrieu's loss Saturday to Republican Sen.-elect Bill Cassidy followed a November all-party...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Women Are Dems' Last Best Hope to Save the Senate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/with-a-democratic-push-gender-gap-widening-into-gender-gulf-in-2014-20141002</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Bland</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' In North Carolina, GOP Senate nominee Thom Tillis had built leads of up to 14 percentage points among men in recent polls. Republicans who have won male voters by that margin have only lost two Senate races in the past 10 years, according to exit polls. It's equal to the margin...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[San Diego Mayor's Race Should Worry Dems]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/why-the-san-diego-mayor-s-race-should-worry-democrats-20140212</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Bland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republican Kevin Faulconer's big win in San Diego's mayoral race Tuesday highlighted the first case of what could be a persistent Democratic problem in 2014: low turnout.Faulconer has a middle-of-the-road reputation built for a city that has typically elected GOP mayors over the past...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Republicans Built a Better Obamacare Ad]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/hotline-on-call/how-republicans-built-a-better-obamacare-ad-20140203</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Bland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Wearing a blue blouse and clutching a coffee mug, Chapel Hill businesswoman Sheila Salter sits at the counter of a well-appointed North Carolina kitchen in a recent TV ad. What she says is the stuff of Democratic nightmares."I was shocked," she says of her cancelled health insurance...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President's Approval Spells Trouble for Senate Dems]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/hotline-on-call/obama-s-state-approval-ratings-spell-trouble-for-senate-democrats-20140129</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Bland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Senate Democrats have a big problem. Historically, Senate candidates struggle where their party's president is the least popular. And, as Gallup's 2013 state approval-rating averages show, President Obama is very, very unpopular in the states Democrats have to defend in the 2014...]]></description>
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