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<title><![CDATA[Paul Bledsoe - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/34850.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Paul Bledsoe]]></description><category domain="34850">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How MLB Undermined the Winningest Teams]]></title>
							<link>https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-mlb-week-off-20231030-cn2vrjb3j5bzvmdprabwmzrauq-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Bledsoe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Keeping teams with the best records from playing baseball for a week is a huge penalty, the baseball equivalent of jail, not a reward.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Needs To Remind Voters He's Pro-Business]]></title>
							<link>https://themessenger.com/opinion/biden-need-to-remind-voters-hes-always-been-pro-business</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Bledsoe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democratic presidents have better records on job growth, income improvements and avoiding recessions. Why don't voters believe it?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats&rsquo; Midterm Message Should Be Working-Class Opportunity]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/10/10/democrats_midterm_message_should_be_working-class_opportunity_148301.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Bledsoe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conventional wisdom in cynical Washington has it, and recent history does suggest, that the easiest way for a Democratic president to be reelected is to run against a radical Republican Party who has just taken over Congress. This formula certainly worked, in a sense, to reelect Bill...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Democrats Must Support Biden in 2024]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/09/12/why_democrats_must_support_biden_in_2024_148181.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Bledsoe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite good news for Joe Biden lately,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' many Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' continue to be deeply worried about his chances of reelection. These concerns are understandable given that Biden, already the oldest president in history, will be 81 years old in November 2024. And while his approval ratings are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climate Devastation Is Upon Us. Congress Must Act]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-climate-congress-20210904-mqbe75qni5b77ocke5orzrmjce-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Bledsoe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Ida unleashed 150 mile-an-hour winds and slammed into New Orleans, super-fueled to huge size and rain-making power by the Gulf of Mexico whose temperatures are 3 to 5 degrees higher than the average just 30 years ago. In...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Is Putting Supreme Court Seat Ahead of Recovery]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-trump-republicans-court-seat-recovery-20201005-lfbpr3jgdjcongmpg3ajkw5kru-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Bledsoe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump's COVID diagnosis is cruelly ironic, coming as it does just as the president and Senate Republicans have decided to impede a national COVID and economic recovery bill and instead push through an unprecedented Supreme Court opening immediately before the election.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Raising the Sunken Road of American Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/09/17/raising_the_sunken_road_of_american_politics_144209.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Bledsoe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The bloodiest day in American history was not inflicted by Al Qaeda on 9/11, or the Japanese Empire at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, or Nazi Germany on D-Day June 6, all among the most famous dates in U.S. history.
Instead, we did it to ourselves. At Antietam, Md., on this date, Sept. 17,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Must First Unite the Party to Defeat Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/486425-biden-must-first-unite-the-party-to-defeat-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Bledsoe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Healing the rift between centrist and far-left Democrats is important to driving Biden's turnout in the fall.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Bloomberg&rsquo;s Bucks Help Beat Trump -- or Boost Sanders?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/02/14/will_bloombergs_bucks_help_beat_trump_--_or_boost_sanders.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Bledsoe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many Democrats are now understandably fixated on the strong showings of former Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Bernie Sanders, or'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' on'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the disappointing performances of former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren. But the most important new dynamic in the race comes from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bloomberg Can't Win, But He Could Help Reelect Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/472486-bloomberg-cant-win-but-he-could-help-reelect-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Bledsoe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The implications of a brokered Convention are not reassuring to those whose main goal is beating Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hickenlooper's Real Green Deal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/08/hickenloopers_real_green_deal__139686.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Bledsoe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In announcing his candidacy for president this week, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper emphasized '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'getting things done'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' by citing Colorado'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s jump from 40th in job growth to the top 10, its provision of health care to 95 percent of its citizens, and making progress on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Need to Put Forward a Tax Plan Too]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-bledsoe-marshall-democrats-on-tax-reform-20170928-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Bledsoe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democratic tax policy can be summed up this way: Raise taxes on the rich. That's not good enough.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Democrats Can Hasten Trump's Departure]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/05/23/how_democrats_can_hasten_trumps_departure.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Bledsoe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Washington can hardly keep up with the unprecedented pace at which Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidency is cascading out of control. Ironically, the appointment last week of Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate Russia'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s involvement in the 2016 presidential election may slow...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Shared Illusions of Brexit and Obamacare Repeal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/01/27/the_shared_illusions_of_brexit_and_obamacare_repeal_132916.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Bledsoe</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Have your cake and eat it.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  With these six aggressively monosyllabic words, the redoubtable Boris Johnson came clean, almost despite himself, about the contradictions of Brexit, and perhaps those of today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s right-of-center populism altogether.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  In time, the phrase...]]></description>
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