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            <title>Duck! Here Comes the Mud!</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ Republicans chafe when the media predicts a dirty campaign with&nbsp;the lion's share of mud thrown at Barack Obama. But if the past 24 hours&nbsp;are any guide, there's&nbsp;good reason for that assumption, and you can blame it on Republican House leader John Boehner. &nbsp;...]]></description>
            <link>http://blog.kiplinger.com/politics/2008/05/duck-here-comes-the-mud.html</link>
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                <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Give Me a Break-</category>
            
            
                <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Campaign tactics</category>
            
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            <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 12:59:15 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Blue Collar Whites: Does Obama Need Them?</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ When tonight's results&nbsp;from West Virginia show blue collar whites went overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton, the TV pundits stuck with hours of air time to fill will no doubt speculate on what Barack Obama needs to do to broaden his appeal in November. But the more important question is, does he need to even try? &nbsp;...]]></description>
            <link>http://blog.kiplinger.com/politics/2008/05/blue-collar-whites-does-obama.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 09:09:37 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Debates Worthy of The Name?</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Forget the endless debate over when and how Hillary Clinton oughta get out. Skip the superdelegate count. The most interesting thing to happen in this campaign in weeks -- and what would be the biggest change in nearly a half century in how we&nbsp;elect presidents -- cropped up over the weekend. John McCain and Barack Obama are seriously considering a series of joint town hall meetings over the summer. If they pull it off, they'll be giving voters the kind of discussion and back and forth that would be fitting for what has long been described as one of the most significant and consequential presidential races in decades....]]></description>
            <link>http://blog.kiplinger.com/politics/2008/05/debates-worthy-of-the-name.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 13:45:33 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Voting on Tuesdays is Plain Silly</title>
            <description><![CDATA[It's as modern as&nbsp;the buggy whip and should just go. Voting on Tuesday, a tradition that dates&nbsp;back to when the U.S. was&nbsp;largely agrarian, needs to be updated to address modern American life. Here's my plan....]]></description>
            <link>http://blog.kiplinger.com/politics/2008/05/voting-on-tuesdays-is-plain-si.html</link>
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                <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Election Day Issues</category>
            
            
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 11:13:57 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Showdown in Mississippi</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ There's a very important election Tuesday and it's not the Democratic primary in West Virginia. It's the special congressional election in Mississippi. A Democratic win would -- and should -- propel Republicans from simple alarm into full-fledged panic. &nbsp;...]]></description>
            <link>http://blog.kiplinger.com/politics/2008/05/showdown-in-mississippi.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 12:34:08 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>McCain Faces Tricky Senate Votes</title>
            <description><![CDATA[John McCain has missed most of this year's Senate votes, devoting his time instead to criss-crossing the country to campaign for the presidency.&nbsp;But in the next several weeks,&nbsp;there are a couple of crucial votes coming up that he can't afford to miss -- and that will&nbsp;put him&nbsp; into a tough position. &nbsp;...]]></description>
            <link>http://blog.kiplinger.com/politics/2008/05/mccain-faces-tricky-senate-vot-1.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 18:09:40 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Clinton&apos;s Last Opportunity for Grace?</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The time has finally arrived for Hillary Clinton to decide what matters most&nbsp;-- her or the Democratic Party. Clinton can do as she has promised and press on, forcing Barack Obama to beat her and making many superdelegates choose between personal loyalty to her and her husband and party unity.&nbsp;Or she can seize her last opportunity to&nbsp;be graceful by pulling the plug on her presidential aspirations herself....]]></description>
            <link>http://blog.kiplinger.com/politics/2008/05/clintons-moment-of-grace.html</link>
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                <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Democratic Campaign</category>
            
            
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            <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 12:34:03 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Score One for Rush Limbaugh?</title>
            <description><![CDATA[A close look at the exit polls suggests Rush Limbaugh may have swung Indiana to Hillary Clinton, providing the margin of victory with Republican mischief-makers. With just a relative handful of votes remaining to be counted, Clinton appears to have won Indiana 51% to 49%, with a margin of about 22,500 votes. Exit polls show that&nbsp;11 percent of voters in the Democratic primary were actually Republicans, and&nbsp;some 73,000&nbsp;of them went for&nbsp;Clinton, even though they acknowledged to pollsters that they're likely to vote for GOP candidate John McCain in the fall....]]></description>
            <link>http://blog.kiplinger.com/politics/2008/05/score-one-for-rush-limbaugh.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 12:00:26 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>The Ultimate Decider: Democrats&apos; Proportion Rule</title>
            <description><![CDATA[If there's one word to describe the driver of this&nbsp;presidential race, it may not be race, gender, age, money, Iraq or economy.&nbsp;The most powerful word arguably is "proportional," referring to the Democratic Party rule on dividing delegates based on primary&nbsp;results, not awarding them on a winner-take-all basis.&nbsp;Candidates have lived and perished by it&nbsp;......]]></description>
            <link>http://blog.kiplinger.com/politics/2008/05/the-ultimate-decider-democrats.html</link>
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                <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Presidential primaries</category>
            
            <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 11:35:01 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>McCain Judiciary Speech Points to Fall Strategy</title>
            <description><![CDATA[With so much attention paid to primaries in Indiana and North Carolina, you may have not noticed that John McCain took&nbsp;his general election campaign to a new level today....]]></description>
            <link>http://blog.kiplinger.com/politics/2008/05/mccain-judiciary-speech-points.html</link>
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                <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Fall Election</category>
            
            
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                <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">supreme court</category>
            
            <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 15:17:51 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>The Real Lessons of the Louisiana Vote</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Democrat Don Cazayoux won a special House election in Louisiana Saturday, capturing a seat that Republicans have held for 33 years. Now&nbsp;both sides are trying to spin the results for political advantage, obscuring&nbsp;the important lessons to be learned....]]></description>
            <link>http://blog.kiplinger.com/politics/2008/05/the-real-lessons-of-the-louisi.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 14:36:46 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Gas Tax Holiday: Are Voters That Dumb?</title>
            <description> There&apos;s new evidence that voters are smarter than politicians give them credit for. Two admittedly unscientific polls and plenty of anecdotal evidence suggest that Americans see proposals for a summer gas tax moratorium for what it is -- a cheap political trick that is actually antithetical to our national and public interest....</description>
            <link>http://blog.kiplinger.com/politics/2008/05/gas-tax-holiday-are-voters-tha.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 13:27:39 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>The End is Getting Closer, Really</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Barack Obama may be losing ground in the polls as a he battles to put the Rev. Wright controversy behind him, but he's gaining where it counts -- in the race for superdelegates.&nbsp;Today he bagged another big name -- Paul Kirk, the second former chairman of the Democratic National Committee to come out for Obama in two days.&nbsp;That suggests a convention fight -- Democrats' worst fears and Republicans' greatest hopes&nbsp; -- isn't in the cards.&nbsp;...]]></description>
            <link>http://blog.kiplinger.com/politics/2008/05/the-end-is-near-really.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 10:37:41 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Insights into Obama</title>
            <description><![CDATA[New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd today wrote the most insightful and incisive piece I have read to date about Barack Obama's struggles to keep the Rev. Jeremiah Wright from casting a shadow so large and dark that it obscures all other aspects of his campaign.Dowd is a loud, rambunctious, caustic and often hilarious liberal who can sometimes clatter too long and loud on the same notes. But she is also a serious and lifelong student of politics and politicians&nbsp;and has made a specialty of understanding how human frailties and strengths can influence both governance and whom we choose to govern us. And her clear-eyed look at Obama draws a near perfect portrait of how the Democratic front-runner's struggle in his war within could well determine -- and may have already determined -- the battle he is waging with Hillary Clinton and perhaps&nbsp;with Republican John McCain....]]></description>
            <link>http://blog.kiplinger.com/politics/2008/04/insights-into-obama.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:01:14 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Death of the Artful Zinger</title>
            <description><![CDATA[If you're thinking the exchanges between candidates in this presidential campaign season&nbsp;are reaching&nbsp;new lows of bitterness and negativity, a look into the nation's past shows that ruthlessness and politicking&nbsp;are hardly new ......]]></description>
            <link>http://blog.kiplinger.com/politics/2008/04/death-of-the-artful-zinger.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:19:45 -0500</pubDate>
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