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<title><![CDATA[Doug Sosnik - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/28844.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Doug Sosnik]]></description><category domain="28844">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Here's the Real Democrat Autopsy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/06/15/what-jill-biden-dnc-autopsy-miss/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doug Sosnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why did the party lose in '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'24? Neither Jill Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s memoir nor the DNC'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s postmortem has the answer.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[21st Century American Politics Post-Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/08/22/21st_century_american_politics_post-trump.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doug Sosnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While Republicans'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' state of concern about the upcoming elections is well-founded, what they should really be worried about is the long-term political damage that they will likely suffer in the 2021-22 gubernatorial elections. These are the elections that will determine the balance...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Here's a Road Map to the Next Decade of American Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/07/heres-the-road-map-to-the-next-decade-of-american-politics-222315</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Doug Sosnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The country's Trump-era political realignment is finally starting to take shape.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Democratic Civil War? The Left Already Won.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-democratic-civil-war-the-left-already-won/2017/11/16/9e9b521e-c646-11e7-afe9-4f60b5a6c4a0_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Doug Sosnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s been lots of talk about a supposed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' civil war'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' brewing within the Democratic Party, as its centrist and progressive wings vie for power. But at least as a matter of presidential politics, this talk isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t premature '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s too late. The war may not have been...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is on Track to Win Reelection]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-on-track-to-win-reelection/2017/10/06/91cd2af0-aa15-11e7-850e-2bdd1236be5d_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doug Sosnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[More than half of Americans don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t think Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is fit to serve as president, yet he has a clear path to winning reelection. If Trump isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t removed from office and doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t lead the country into some form of global catastrophe, he could secure a second term simply by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[State of the Race: Why Clinton Has an Edge]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/25/opinions/state-of-the-presidential-race-opinion-sosnik/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doug Sosnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you tune into the news these days it would be easy to conclude that the presidential race is too close to call and that it's all going to come down to what happens in the debates that start Monday. But that would be missing the point. The fact is that the likely outcome of this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2016 Is Already Decided. History Says Clinton Wins.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-2016-election-is-already-decided-history-says-hillary-clinton-wins/2016/06/28/8c6e682e-3d49-11e6-80bc-d06711fd2125_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doug Sosnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If history is any guide, the outcome of this year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidential election has already been decided.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' With the exception of 2000, the result of every presidential election since, and including, 1980 has been determined before the general election even officially began. In fact, most...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Recapturing The White House Is Not Looking Good for GOP]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/doug-sosnik-memo-2016-is-over-213753</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doug Sosnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 2016 presidential election is looking like it will be a matchup between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. While this election season has been full of surprises, it is likely that the most decisive period in the election has already passed, the outcome is set and this presidential...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What to Watch During Most Decisive Phase of the Election]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/02/2016-elections-doug-sosnik-memo-213617</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Doug Sosnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is not an overstatement to say that the failures of our leaders and governmental institutions have brought our political system to the brink of implosion.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The country is undergoing the most significant economic, technological and demographic changes since the Industrial Revolution....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The End of the 2016 Race is Closer Than You Think]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/the-end-of-the-2016-election-is-closer-than-you-think-119947_full.html#.VaJyRPlVhBc</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doug Sosnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The end of the 2016 presidential election is actually much closer than you might think.In every game there are decisive moments that determine the ultimate outcome. We like to think that presidential elections are dramatic fall campaigns pitting party against party, but the truth is that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitch McConnell Shouldn't Get Comfortable]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/election-2016-democrats-117210.html?ml=m_t4_2h#.VTd6uCFViko</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doug Sosnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After picking up nine seats in the 2014 elections, Republicans maintain a decisive 54-seat majority in the Senate. In 2016, they will face a much more difficult map that coincides with a presidential election year. Nineteen months before the 2016 elections, the contours of the race for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is 2016 Election America's Hinge Moment?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/2016-predictions-americas-sosnik-clinton-116480.html?hp=t1_r#.VRfpWvnF--0</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Left Took Over the Democratic Party]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/07/left-took-over-democratic-party-109348.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doug Sosnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The very forces that have held the Democratic Party together are forestalling the takeover. Many of Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most enthusiastic supporters have been loath to criticize him publicly'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'even when the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s idea of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'change you can believe in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' hasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t matched up...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Groucho Marx's Republican Party]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/03/sosnik-memo-republican-party-future-104749.html?hp=pm_1#.UyqvGvldWk5</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doug Sosnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In just a few words, Groucho Marx summed up the current state of the Republican Party heading into the 2016 presidential elections. Since the start of George W. Bush'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s second term nine years ago, the party has been in political free fall. The GOP is in a state of transition, moving...]]></description>
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