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<title><![CDATA[David Wasserman - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/28414.xml</link><description><![CDATA[David Wasserman]]></description><category domain="28414">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Biden Is in Absolutely Dire Shape]]></title>
							<link>https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1713182445141402038</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wasserman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How is it Dems are cleaning up in special elections/referendums if their national poll numbers are so bad? Because in the Trump era, Dems are excelling w/ the most civic-minded, highly-engaged voters. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Will Win? Watch FL's Sumter County for First Clue]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/will-trump-win-again-watch-florida-s-sumter-county-first-n1243497</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wasserman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden has made inroads with seniors. And a "gray revolt" could be apparent quickly on Nov. 3.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Winning Voter Registration Battle in Key States]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-s-winning-voter-registration-battle-against-biden-key-states-n1241674</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wasserman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It may not be enough to erase the former VP's polling lead but could boost the president if the race tightens.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Tallying Debacle Could Help Biden Campaign]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/iowa-caucuses-muddled-vote-count-was-debacle-not-joe-biden-n1130281</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Wasserman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Analysis: Biden may benefit from Monday's chaos, but the party may be in danger of a long slog that could endanger unity against Trump in the fall.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Van Drew's Party Switch Moves NJ-2 to Lean R]]></title>
							<link>https://cookpolitical.com/analysis/house/new-jersey-house/van-drew-party-switch-moves-nj-02-toss-lean-republican</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Wasserman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Freshman Democratic Rep. Jeff Van Drew (NJ-02) set off a political earthquake over the weekend when he informed his staff that he plans to become a Republican after meeting with President Trump and losing support from local South Jersey party leaders over his anti-impeachment stance. Six...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why a Long Dem Primary Slugfest Might Help Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/opinion/democratic-primary-rules-trump-2020.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wasserman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s crowded field and messy rules could lead to months of infighting and an ugly convention.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Democrats Keep Their House Majority?]]></title>
							<link>https://cookpolitical.com/analysis/house/house-overview/2020-house-overview-can-democrats-keep-their-majority</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Wasserman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The spectacle in North Carolina's 9th District makes 2018 feel like the election that will never end.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[9 Kinds of Races That Will Decide Fate of the House]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/nine-kinds-races-will-decide-fate-house-n921901</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wasserman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The battleground has expanded across many different slices of America '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' from the professional suburbs of LA to the coalfields of southern West Virginia.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Even a Blue Wave Could Have Limited Gains]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/opinion/midterms-democrats-republicans-blue-wave.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wasserman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The divergent geography of 2018 means we will really have two midterm elections, and one favors Republicans.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Handel's Win Isn't a Disaster for Democrats]]></title>
							<link>http://cookpolitical.com/story/10391</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wasserman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's a devastating psychological blow for a party to spend over $30 million on a House special election and still lose. For Democrats, Jon Ossoff's defeat to Karen Handel stings, and the blame game is already raging: "Why did Ossoff run such a bland campaign? Why didn't he take a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Are the New Battleground States?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/opinion/campaign-stops/what-are-the-new-battleground-states.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wasserman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Can Hillary Clinton win the Republican strongholds Arizona and Georgia? At the moment, thanks to Donald J. Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s self-destructive tendencies and both states'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' growing populations of professionals and nonwhites, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s possible.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The 2016 election is poised to be the most...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton Seems to Think Pennsylvania Is in the Bag. It's Not.]]></title>
							<link>http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-clinton-campaign-seems-to-think-pennsylvania-is-in-the-bag/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wasserman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton has a substantial lead in the polls over Donald Trump, and has vastly more cash on hand. But when it comes to spending that cash, her campaign may be making a strategic miscalculation. The campaign and an allied super PAC have reserved $137 million of ads across eight...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Pennsylvania Could Decide the 2016 Election]]></title>
							<link>http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/pennsylvania-could-be-an-electoral-tipping-point/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wasserman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When most people think of battleground America, they think of Florida and Ohio, two of only three states (along with Nevada) that have voted for the winner of every presidential election since 1996. They tend not to think of Pennsylvania as a classic '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'swing state'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' it has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sanders Is Even Less Competitive Than He Appears]]></title>
							<link>http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bernie-sanders-is-even-further-behind-in-votes-than-he-is-in-delegates/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wasserman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s supporters are fond of the hypothesis that Democratic superdelegates, the elected leaders and party officials who currently support Hillary Clinton by a lopsided-doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Two-Front War to Deny Trump the Nomination]]></title>
							<link>http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-a-two-front-war-to-deny-trump-the-nomination-could-look-like/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wasserman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican Party may be on the verge of an irrational break. Donald Trump continues to rack up delegates at a dizzying pace, but he looks less electable against Hillary Clinton by the day. Meanwhile, two-thirds of the way through the delegate chase, the #NeverTrump movement is a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republican Primary Rules Might Doom Carson, Cruz, Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-gops-primary-rules-might-doom-carson-and-cruz/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Wasserman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a few months, after Iowa and New Hampshire begin to winnow the field, the GOP nomination race could boil down to an epic final between a candidate with a more pragmatic image, such as Marco Rubio, Carly Fiorina or Jeb Bush, and a more conservative one, such as Ted Cruz, Ben Carson or...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Overlooked Key to 2016]]></title>
							<link>http://cookpolitical.com/story/8666</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wasserman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many analysts have devoted endless hours to pondering the Republican Party's woes with Latino voters and prescriptions for how the party can fix them in time for 2016. There's little doubt that the past decade's heated immigration reform debates have badly damaged the GOP's standing with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Historic GOP House Majority]]></title>
							<link>http://cookpolitical.com/story/8067</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Wasserman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's hard to overstate House Democrats' bad night. By all measures, Republicans enjoyed an historic night, exceeding pre-election expectations across the country. There are fewer than ten races where the outcome is in some doubt, but Republicans appear headed for a 250-seat majority,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What We Learned From Cantor's Loss]]></title>
							<link>http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-we-can-learn-from-eric-cantors-defeat/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wasserman</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rich Suburbs Can't Save Dems in 2014]]></title>
							<link>http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/rich-suburbs-cant-save-the-democrats-come-the-midterms/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wasserman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last fall, Democrat Terry McAuliffe defied the odds and beat Republican Ken Cuccinelli in Virginia'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s gubernatorial race. Democrats, already suffering from President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s flagging approval rating and ominous Senate prospects, began hoping they could tune out other failures...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP on Track to Gain House Seats]]></title>
							<link>http://cookpolitical.com/story/6543</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Wasserman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the Murray-Ryan budget deal amounts to a small lurch forward, the last few months' politics have sure felt like a roller-coaster ride. And, we aren't just talking about GOP Reps. Trey Radel (FL-19) or Steve Stockman (TX-36).For the first sixteen days of October, the government...]]></description>
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