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<title><![CDATA[Ron Faucheux - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/32739.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ron Faucheux]]></description><category domain="32739">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Corrupting the Presidential Pardon Power]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/01/16/corrupting_the_presidential_pardon_power__152204.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Faucheux</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Constitution gives presidents the power to grant pardons and commutations for federal crimes. This unique, unchecked power was meant to be used sparingly, as a last resort to correct injustices in the system. Pardons shouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t be gifts for friends, donors, and relatives who...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will This Election Be a Replay of 2016?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/09/26/will_this_election_be_replay_2016_151690.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Faucheux</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s an old saying that while history doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t repeat itself, it often rhymes. Will this presidential election rhyme with 2016?
In the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton led the national polls at the end of September by 3 to 4 points. Her opponent, Donald Trump, was focused on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tuesday&rsquo;s Debate Looms Large for Both Candidates]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/09/05/tuesdays_debate_make_or_break_for_both_candidates_151566.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Faucheux</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For six weeks, Kamala Harris'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' campaign has been running circles around Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s efforts. Democrats have raised tons of money, energized their base, and protected Harris from unscripted interviews and political risks. All the while, Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s campaigning has been...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Debates Are Lost, Not Won]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/06/25/debates_are_lost_not_won_151156.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Faucheux</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As we near Thursday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s debate, Americans are fixated on whether Joe Biden will stumble on stage or Donald Trump will blow up in rage. Anything'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s possible in a debate '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' especially when both candidates are high-wire acts.
Americans like debates. They offer direct, on-stage...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Trump's Conviction the Only Way Biden Can Still Win?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/02/08/jurors_not_voters_could_give_biden_a_second_term_150457.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Faucheux</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The odds continue to favor a Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden general election, the match-up many voters have long dreaded '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' but the recent special counsel report on Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s mishandling of classified documents and his failing memory is a new wrinkle to be taken seriously. Is it the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Looking at Trump&rsquo;s Running Mate Prospects]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/01/29/looking_at_trumps_running_mate_prospects_150397.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Faucheux</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Donald Trump tightens his grip on the Republican nomination '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' even with Nikki Haley still in the race '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' politicos are ready to play their favorite quadrennial parlor game: Who will be the vice-presidential nominee?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
In 2016, Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s selection of Mike Pence as his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Are Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis Running For?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/01/20/what_are_nikki_haley_and_ron_desantis_running_for_150350.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Faucheux</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump easily won Iowa, as the polls had indicated, and he did it despite 91 felony charges and enormous amounts of time and money spent against him. More importantly, as Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley have fixated on early state contests, Trump has expanded his nationwide lead among...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If You Didn&rsquo;t Like the First Term, Just Wait for the Second]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/12/07/if_you_didnt_like_the_first_term_just_wait_for_the_second_150158.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Faucheux</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Second presidential terms are like half-chewed gum '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' the zest and flavor are gone. Hence the phrase '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'second-term curse.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve had 17 presidents who were elected and reelected. History shows us that the second act usually falls short. 
Why is this? For starters,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Struggle on Crime Issue]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/democrats-struggle-against-republicans-on-crime-issue</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Faucheux</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Crime has emerged as a big factor in this election. After inflation, voters say crime is the most important issue affecting their votes for Congress, placing it above immigration, abortion, and climate change.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Independent for U.S. President: Macron Is the Model]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/05/03/an_independent_for_us_president_macron_is_the_model_147549.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Faucheux</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Exhausted by partisan conflict, Americans often ask: Can we ever elect an independent for president?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
Only George Washington won the presidency without party affiliation. He called parties'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Poll Numbers Are Even Worse Than They Seem]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/bidens-poll-numbers-are-even-worse-than-they-seem</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Faucheux</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Joe Biden's dropping poll numbers are worse than they seem. A deep dive into the data shows two overlooked problems that most news stories haven't caught: an intensity problem and a national mood problem.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are the Wheels Coming Off the Biden Administration?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/are-the-wheels-coming-off-the-biden-administration</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Faucheux</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When we look back at the first year of Joe Biden's presidency, will August of 2021 stand out as the time the wheels came off?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Biden Limit Himself to One Term?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/12/13/will_biden_limit_himself_to_one_term_144833.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Faucheux</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As both parties set markers for a new administration, one reality has yet to sink in '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' the possibility that Joe Biden will voluntarily serve only one term as president.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
Waves of implications will flow from Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s decision on whether he seeks another term. Can he be as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bloomberg May Be What Democrats Need]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/02/14/bloomberg_may_be_what_democrats_need_142389.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Faucheux</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Michael Bloomberg is not what Democrats want, but he may be what Democrats need.
None of Bloomberg'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s signature traits -- 77-years-old, former Republican, billionaire -- are on the presidential wish list of most Democrats. What they want is an appealing progressive in her or his 40s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why a Contested Democratic Convention Is Possible]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/12/27/why_a_contested_democratic_convention_is_possible_142033.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Faucheux</author>
							<description><![CDATA[About this time in every presidential nomination contest there is talk of a brokered convention. As if on cue, we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re hearing it again.
The thought of such a convention races the hearts of political junkies everywhere. It conjures the image of power brokers deciding the fate of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Too Much Politics in a Badly Divided Nation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/03/29/too_much_politics_in_a_badly_divided_nation_133457.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Faucheux</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s amazing how politics has seeped into everybody'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s lives.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
Republicans are now happy campers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'relieved, finally, that there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a politically incorrect, mostly conservative president in the White House. Democrats in the Trump era, however, seem more like the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Cracked the Firewall. Can It Happen Again?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/trump-cracked-the-firewall/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Faucheux</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Can it happen again?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Kaleidoscopic Election]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/10/08/the_kaleidoscopic_election_131988.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Faucheux</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Voters view presidential elections through kaleidoscopes. At certain moments they focus, then give it a turn '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'and everything looks different. That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s why it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s never smart to predict the outcome too early or on the basis of a single...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Debates Can Save This Election]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/09/14/how_the_debates_can_save_this_election_131780.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Faucheux</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This presidential election is living up to its billing. Each side has called the other every bad name in the book. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s worse than a dinner party on the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Real Housewives.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' 
If the campaign keeps this pace, the final weeks will be filled with acrimony. Vast amounts will be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sizing Up Potential Clinton Running Mates]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/05/07/sizing_up_potential_clinton_running_mates_130490.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Faucheux</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s that time again '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' to start thinking about vice presidential selections. 
Already, Hillary Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s campaign is floating names of prospects, and top Republicans are wondering about Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s pick now that he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presumptive nominee....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will the Next President Be Too Damaged to Govern?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/03/25/will_the_next_president_be_too_damaged_to_govern_130088.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Faucheux</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Liar. Con artist. Lunatic. Misogynist. Bigot. Maniac. These are some of the names presidential candidates have called one another this year. And these are just the names Republicans have called Republicans. Wait until this fall, when you hear what Democrats call Republicans and vice...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Three Revolts Are Shaking American Politics]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/02/18/three_revolts_are_shaking_american_politics.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ron Faucheux</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conventional wisdom is wrong again. There is not one big populist revolt now sweeping across America. Rather, there are three revolts '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' one from the right, one from the left and one from angry voters across the board.
The first revolt has been percolating for nearly a decade....]]></description>
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