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		<title><![CDATA["He Could Have Been a Contender ..."]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the 1972 Democratic convention that nominated Sen. George McGovern of
South Dakota for president, McGovern's choice of a running mate was
postponed until the convention's last day. At the urging of his campaign
manager, Gary Hart, McGovern ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1091816</link>
 
    <pubDate>Feb/04/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why Newt Scares Republicans]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hymie Shorenstein, a legendary Democratic leader in the Brownsville
section of Brooklyn, was renowned for delivering lopsided majorities, up
to 15 to one, for his party on Election Day.

One year, the story goes, a party-endorsed candidate for ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1063657</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jan/28/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A South Carolina Giant]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the real pluses of the South Carolina primary was the chance to
tap into the fresh wisdom of an authentic American giant, the
90-years-young Fritz Hollings.

A vintage sample from an earlier speech: "Having been governor, I am
frequently ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1043893</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jan/21/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tolerant Americans 2012]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Rath, the New Hampshire Republican, is one of the really good guys.
A former state attorney general and advisor to the presidential
campaigns of Howard Baker, Bob Dole, Lamar Alexander and George W Bush,
Rath is the savvy and witty pol who ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1037644</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jan/14/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[GOP Populist, 2012 Version]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[CONCORD, N.H. -- During the campaign for the 1996 Republican
presidential nomination, Malcolm "Steve" Forbes pushed a flat-tax plan
that would have abolished all taxes on dividends and capital gains. Pat
Buchanan, in characteristically understated...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1030324</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jan/07/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[In Defense of Iowa]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beating up on Iowa -- and the Hawkeye State's Jan. 3 first-in-the-nation
presidential caucuses -- is once again in the Eastern Time Zone. Readers
of The New York Times are urged to read the gifted Gail Collins' column
so that they can "Feel Free ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1025038</link>
 
    <pubDate>Dec/31/2011</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Down to Blood Relatives and Paid Staff]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the voters' job rating of Congress fell in one national poll this
year to just 9 percent positive, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain
explained that "9 percent" meant he and his congressional colleagues
were "down to blood relatives and paid...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1020420</link>
 
    <pubDate>Dec/24/2011</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Newt Rewrites His Reagan Connection]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1995, when Newt Gingrich first became speaker of the House, Bob Dole
was already on the threshold of becoming the longest-serving Senate
Republican leader in U.S. history. Relations between the two GOP
leaders, which were never chummy, were not...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1014099</link>
 
    <pubDate>Dec/17/2011</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Endorsements Matter on Checks, Not for President]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let's be candid with each other: I have never heard (and I bet you
haven't, either) anyone explain that in the upcoming presidential
primary he intends to vote for Johnny Geesil. rather than any of the
other seven active presidential candidates, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1001915</link>
 
    <pubDate>Dec/10/2011</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Plea to Republicans]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA["No man is good enough to be president," wisely observed Abraham
Lincoln, one of the nation's greatest, "but someone has to be."

Americans' choice of a president is truly the most personal vote that
any of us will ever cast. We are far more ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-996848</link>
 
    <pubDate>Dec/03/2011</pubDate>
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