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<title><![CDATA[Patrick Ruffini - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/28130.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Patrick Ruffini]]></description><category domain="28130">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Realignment Is Here]]></title>
							<link>https://www.patrickruffini.com/p/the-realignment-is-here?r=cyqk&amp;triedRedirect=true</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Ruffini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The first GOP popular vote win in 20 years, the Red Wave hit everywhere, 2024 realigned the electorate as much as 2016, less secure voters moved towards Trump, everything got more correlated]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Latino and Black Voters Could Elect Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/black-and-hispanic-voters-could-elect-trump-minorities-election-fcabeeb3?mod=opinion_lead_pos5</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Ruffini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even a modest racial realignment would provide the margin of victory for Republicans in November.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Emerging Working-Class Republican Majority]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/04/new-republican-party-working-class-coalition-00122822</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Ruffini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The coalition that elected Donald Trump in 2016 was no one-off.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP Factions That Will Decide the Nomination]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/politics/gop-tribal-warfare-trump-desantis-2024/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Ruffini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Open any national publication, and you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll read all about a cultish, fire-breathing MAGA majority in the Republican Party, slavish in its devotion to Donald Trump. Nothing will shake their conviction that Trump was the rightful winner of the 2020 election. This is the group that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Here Come the Hispanic Republicans]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/here-come-the-hispanic-republicans/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Ruffini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Acoveted working-class demographic that has been loyally Democratic for generations stands poised to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' vote Republican in record numbers. Its voters are upwardly mobile, having risen from the deep poverty of their immigrant ancestors to a decent middle-class life. Their incomes are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Discredits Liberalism]]></title>
							<link>http://blog.heritage.org/2013/10/22/guest-post-how-healthcare-gov-discredits-liberalism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Ruffini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Internet does weird things to people. One of those weirdnesses comes from the tech-savvy community on the left, who sincerely embrace an agile, entrepreneurial, bottom-up culture in their professional and voluntary pursuits, yet forcefully argue for the top-down paternalism of...]]></description>
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