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							<title><![CDATA[Can Western PA Become Silicon Valley East?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpennsylvania.com/articles/2025/07/08/can_western_pennsylvania_become_silicon_valley_east_1121446.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Bloodworth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How do you go from 100% to dead? That is the tragic enigma which changed Jim Foote's life. In 2004, Foote's 15-year-old son, Trey, was diagnosed with bone cancer.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How To Win Friends and Votes in Rural America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/how-to-win-friends-and-votes-in-rural</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Bloodworth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Local money, local organizing, local candidates, and local issues.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Victory in Pennsylvania Runs Through Erie County]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/as-erie-county-goes</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Bloodworth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Erie County, PA has voted for the winner in the last four presidential elections. What does it look like for 2024?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Who Are Showing Up in Rural America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/democrats-who-are-showing-up-in-rural</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Bloodworth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Polarization is a by-product of Democrats. They don't even try to compete in rural America. Matt Barron should know. The principal at MLB Research Associates specializes in rural Democratic politics'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and he sees a party that has quit rural America. The political consequences of this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Middle America Will Determine the 2024 Election]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/middle-america-will-determine-the?utm_campaign=email-half-post&amp;r=9r1we&amp;utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Bloodworth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Opportunity liberalism means the state provides citizens equality of opportunity and individuals offer grit and labor. Democrats need to recapture this spirit.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[My Best Friend Died From Loneliness]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/my-best-friend-died-from-loneliness</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Bloodworth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[White, working-class, middle-aged Americans are one of the only demographics in the world that has seen its life expectancy fall. But Mike wasn't just a statistic.]]></description>
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