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<title><![CDATA[Oliver Bateman - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/45429.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Oliver Bateman]]></description><category domain="45429">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Inside Pennsylvania's Toughest Races]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpennsylvania.com/pennsylvania-elections/articles/inside-pennsylvanias-toughest-races-and-its-toughest-republican-2026-10-02</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver Bateman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb has read more Pennsylvania polling than almost anyone who isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t paid to, probably because, for nearly a decade, that was a big part of his day job. Lamb won a hard-fought March 2018 special election by 627 votes in my home district that Donald Trump had...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Natural Gas Is Cheap--Why Is Your Bill So High?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/09/15/natural_gas_is_cheap__why_is_your_bill_so_high_1206100.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver Bateman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Janet Stechly, a retired schoolteacher, and her husband, a retired coal miner, pore over every monthly expense. One of the most confounding is the monthly natural gas bill for their small townhouse in southwestern Pennsylvania.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fetterman Is a Predictable Chaos Agent]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpennsylvania.com/articles/2026/09/14/john_fetterman_is_a_predictable_chaos_agent_1205985.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver Bateman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a postindustrial decay shot worthy of the Levi's advertisement that helped put him on the map 16 years ago, John Fetterman stood in front of the Mon Valley Works last Wednesday night and told]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Power Bill Is on the Ballot in Lehigh Valley]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpennsylvania.com/articles/2026/07/01/in_the_lehigh_valley_the_power_bill_is_on_the_ballot_1192064.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver Bateman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The largest structure proposed in Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district is a building that will, once completed, contain almost no workers.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[25 Years Behind Wheel, and Receipts To Show for It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpennsylvania.com/articles/2026/05/12/twenty-five_years_behind_the_wheel_and_the_receipts_to_show_for_it_1182249.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver Bateman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unless you've spent hours penned in by big rigs on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, you may not realize how much skin Pennsylvania has in the trucking game. As it stands, the Commonwealth ranks fourth]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Power On: What PA's Battle Over Energy Industry Can Teach]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/02/03/power_on_what_pas_battle_over_climate_change_can_teach_the_nation_1162501.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver Bateman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican leader of Pennsylvania's state Senate saluted his allies in labor earlier this month after their successful, years-long effort to defeat what they saw as a job-killing climate initiative.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conor Lamb Has Seen the Democrats' Future]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpennsylvania.com/articles/2026/01/26/lamb_has_seen_the_democrats_future_it_already_happened_to_him_1160943.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver Bateman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conor Lamb's office sits across from PPG Paints Arena in downtown Pittsburgh, a world away from the rural stretches of Washington County where he pulled off one of the most improbable Democratic]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pittsburgh Mayor Wants To Prove Dems Can Still Govern]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpennsylvania.com/articles/2025/11/25/corey_oconnor_wants_to_prove_democrats_can_still_govern_1149685.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver Bateman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Corey O'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'Connor sits in his downtown transition office fielding calls and reviewing appointments, friendly and businesslike, considerably more buttoned-down than his father, Bob, the late mayor whose ready smile and bouffant hair made him a beloved figure in this city for decades.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mandate for Moderation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpennsylvania.com/articles/2025/11/06/pennsylvanias_mandate_for_moderation_1145732.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver Bateman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 2025 Pittsburgh mayoral election'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' delivered a resounding message that most progressive activists would prefer to ignore. Corey O'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'Connor, who defeated incumbent Ed Gainey in the Democratic primary, achieved'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' high levels of off-year turnout'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and secured more than 80% of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kirk Removal From Political Battlefield Will Help Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/newsroom/charlie-kirks-death-leaves-a-void-in-the-gop/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver Bateman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The manhunt continues in Utah for Charlie Kirk's killer, but the Republican Party's real reckoning has already begun. The 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA wasn't just another campus provocateur or podcast personality.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How PA Turned Red - and Why It Might Last]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpennsylvania.com/articles/2025/09/04/the_story_of_how_pa_turned_redbut_will_it_last_1132902.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver Bateman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland, by Salena Zito (Center Street, 256 pp., $20.28)On July 13, 2024, a youthful, bespectacled ass]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bill Maher Shows Liberals How To Deal With Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/newsroom/bill-maher-shows-liberals-how-to-deal-with-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver Bateman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bill Maher, that consummate political pot-stirrer, has risked opprobrium from his fellow liberals after dining with Donald Trump at the White House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The People's Champ Has Lost His People]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearbooks.com/articles/2024/11/26/the_peoples_champ_has_lost_his_people_1074490.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver Bateman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Picture this, because it really happened: Dwayne Johnson stands in an IMAX theater, taking Christopher Nolan's seat.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Casey Won't Admit Defeat, But Here's Why He Lost]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpennsylvania.com/articles/2024/11/12/casey_wont_admit_defeat_but_heres_why_he_lost_1071750.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver Bateman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. Bob Casey's final days in office read like a cautionary tale about the dangers of political evolution. His inbox overflows with increasingly desperate fundraising pleas -]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Even Shapiro Couldn't Have Saved PA for Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpennsylvania.com/articles/2024/11/07/even_shapiro_couldnt_have_saved_pa_for_the_democrats_1070808.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver Bateman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Elections often tell you less about the winners than the losers. Victory has many fathers, as the saying goes, but defeat shows you exactly what went wrong. Pennsylvania's 2024 results offer a master]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pittsburgh Paradox Could Hand PA to Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpennsylvania.com/articles/2024/09/19/the_pittsburgh_paradox_could_hand_pa_to_trump_1059597.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver Bateman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pittsburgh's transformation from Rust Belt phoenix to progressive tech stronghold was supposed to be the Democrats' long-term ace in the hole for Pennsylvania. Instead, hubris might just h]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Impact Will Trump Shooting Have on the Election?]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/newsroom/what-impact-will-donald-trump-shooting-have-on-the-election/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver Bateman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a nation once capable of rallying around its leaders in times of crisis, Saturday's assassination attempt on Donald Trump has instead laid bare the depths of America's political divide. The incident, which left the former president with a bullet-grazed ear, has become the latest...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Age of the Comedy Roast Is Over]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2023/10/the-age-of-the-comedy-roast-is-over/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver Bateman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Satirical annihilation has become a sanitised ritual]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Manchin&rsquo;s No Labels Party Could Backfire]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2023/07/joe-manchins-no-labels-party-could-backfiremanchins-no-labels-party-could-backfire/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver Bateman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Third-party candidates in America don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t make history. But last week the senior senator for West Virginia made headlines, at least.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dear Elon Musk, Can You Buy Paypal Too?]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/thepost/dear-elon-musk-can-you-buy-paypal-too/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver Bateman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, online payment processor PayPal'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' responded to withering criticism'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' by withdrawing a policy that would have fined users $2,500 for spreading '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'misinformation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' PayPal, which already had an acceptable use policy prohibiting intolerance, was reacting to criticism...]]></description>
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