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<title><![CDATA[Andrew E. Busch - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/44889.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Andrew E. Busch]]></description><category domain="44889">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Parties See Election Law Through Different Lenses]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew E. Busch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats and Republicans today find each other on opposing sides of many electoral reform issues. Democrats love mail ballot elections, ballot harvesting, and long deadlines for returned ballots; Republicans are generally hostile. Republicans support stricter voter identification...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will a New Cold War Bring Back an Old Political Calculus?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/04/01/will_a_new_cold_war_bring_back_an_old_political_calculus_147412.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew E. Busch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The horrific war in Ukraine and the likelihood that the United States and its allies must prepare themselves for an extended period of tension with both Russia and China lead to an important political question: Will presidential elections be pulled back into pre-1992 norms?
During the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mail Voting and Election Legitimacy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/03/15/mail_voting_and_election_legitimacy_147335.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew E. Busch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Although it had been a feature of elections in some parts of the United States for years, the phenomenon of mail-ballot voting exploded in the 2020 election. In the midst of the COVID pandemic, jurisdictions around the country expanded use of mail voting, sometimes sending ballots to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pence Has Earned a Look, but Faces Uphill Climb]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/03/01/pence_has_earned_a_look_but_faces_uphill_climb_147270.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew E. Busch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Mike Pence spoke at a Federalist Society conference in early February, he drew attention for declaring flatly that Donald Trump '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'is wrong'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in asserting that his former vice president somehow had the discretionary authority to refuse to count legally certified electoral...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Will the COVID Emergency Be Over?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/02/11/when_will_the_covid_emergency_be_over_147171.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew E. Busch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two years after COVID burst on the American scene, leading to lockdowns, school closures, mask and vaccine mandates, and trillions of dollars in emergency government spending, the question on many minds is: When will the emergency end?
The answer to that question is not an easy one. An...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will the Battle to Replace Breyer Be Bitter, or Just Close?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/01/28/will_the_battle_to_replace_breyer_be_bitter_or_just_close_147105.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew E. Busch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Wednesday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s announcement by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that he would be retiring at the end of the court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s current session has raised the obvious question of how contentious the battle over his replacement will be.
One thing is almost certain to be true: No matter who...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Legislating in an Election Year: A Look at History]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/12/29/legislating_in_an_election_year_a_look_at_history_146957.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew E. Busch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sen. Joe Manchin'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s declaration that he could not support President Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Build Back Better legislation in its current form and that Congress should start over again has been widely interpreted as the death knell for the measure. There are substantive reasons to believe this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reconciliation Overload]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/12/22/reconciliation_overload_146928.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew E. Busch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Central to the fight over President Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Build Back Better bill has been the use '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' or misuse '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' of budget reconciliation to advance the package. Attention has been focused on the cost and politics of the package, but it is also important to take stock of the process. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will 2022 Midterms Be the Next Great Crisis Backlash?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/11/28/will_2022_midterms_be_the_next_great_crisis_backlash_146796.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew E. Busch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At least twice in U.S. history, big political shakeups occurred in midterm elections that served as endpoints to periods of crisis, privation, and extraordinary government expansion and regimentation.
The first was in November 1918. That election was held in the midst of the Spanish flu...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why We Must Protect Key Institutions From Partisanship]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/11/03/why_we_must_protect_key_institutions_from_partisanship_146676.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew E. Busch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Except for a brief interlude in the 1820s, partisanship has been a regular feature of American political life since George Washington'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s time. Sometimes, as in the late 19th century and today, competition, and with it, contentiousness, has been fierce; at other times, more muted.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Third Parties Make a Difference in 2024?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/10/20/can_third_parties_make_a_difference_in_2024_146589.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew E. Busch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Second of two parts
Should 2024 develop into a four-way race between a Republican, a Democrat, Andrew Yang or another candidate from his Forward Party, and an anti-Trump conservative, presidential politics will enter volatile, if not quite uncharted, territory. Leaving aside 2016,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Third Parties on the Horizon: What Does History Say?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/10/19/third_parties_on_the_horizon_what_does_history_say_146581.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew E. Busch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[First of two parts
After a brief respite in the 2020 election, attention is turning again to the possibility of third parties playing a significant role in American politics.
In 2016, both the Libertarian Party ticket and the Green Party ticket received an unusually large number of votes...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Consequences of Failure: The Politics of Saigon and Kabul]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/09/24/consequences_of_failure_the_politics_of_saigon_and_kabul_146457.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew E. Busch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The abrupt U.S. defeat in the Afghan war has invited parallels with the fall of Saigon in 1975. That event, too, included televised images of panicked crowds desperately seeking to flee the country, victorious tyrants luxuriating in the presidential palace, and American-made military...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Jim Crow 2.0' Is Imaginary &ndash; and Divisive]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/08/20/jim_crow_20_is_imaginary__and_divisive_146276.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew E. Busch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden and other Democrats have referred to Republican-sponsored voting reforms in Georgia, Texas and elsewhere as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Jim Crow 2.0.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Republicans, the not-very-subtle implication is, are engaged in white supremacist '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'voter suppression'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' attempting to restore the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Electoral Reform, Trust &amp; the Future of Post-Election Demagoguery]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/06/14/electoral_reform_trust__the_future_of_post-election_demagoguery__145918.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew E. Busch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The second of two parts (to read Part 1, click here)
Both parties made significant contributions to the post-election conflicts that culminated in the Capitol riots on Jan. 6. The Republican contribution was obvious: the demagoguery of Donald Trump and the willingness of so many...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Supplied Post-Election Demagoguery; Democrats Sparked Demand]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/06/13/trump_supplied_post-election_demagoguery_democrats_sparked_demand.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew E. Busch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[First of two parts
The recent failure of the Senate to approve a proposed Jan. 6 commission and the removal of National Guard troops from the Capitol have returned attention to the events of that day, as has the back-and-forth between congressional Democrats pushing the federalization...]]></description>
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