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		<title><![CDATA[GOP Must Convince Young People It's the Party of Options]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Republican presidential candidates, except for Ron Paul, haven't
been paying much attention to young voters in the primaries and caucuses
so far. But any Republican nominee -- which is to say probably Mitt
Romney, or maybe Newt Gingrich or ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/michaelbarone/s-1094847</link>
 
    <pubDate>Feb/09/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Box-Checking Obama in a Liberal Cocoon]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's unusual when a reporter sympathetic to a politician writes a story
that makes his subject look bad. But Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker has
now done this twice.

The first time was in an article last April on Obama's foreign policy in
which he ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/michaelbarone/s-1092382</link>
 
    <pubDate>Feb/06/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[After Big Win, Romney Faces Tough Opponents in a Long War]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney's impressive victory Tuesday makes it very likely that we
will look back on the Florida primary as the contest that determined the
2012 Republican nomination.

To be sure, the campaign fight will go on, and Romney is by no means
...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/michaelbarone/s-1091184</link>
 
    <pubDate>Feb/02/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The 2012 Race Takes Shape]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[We got mixed signals from a turbulent political week.

Barack Obama seems to be enjoying an uptick in polls -- up toward, but
not quite at, 50 percent approval. It's a reminder that he can expect to
benefit from Americans' desire to think well of ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/michaelbarone/s-1063647</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jan/30/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Unlike Obama, GOP Candidates Talk Seriously About Governing]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know politicians are serious when they move from campaigning to
governing. Something like that may be happening on the Republican
campaign trail -- but, unfortunately, not at the Obama White House.

Campaigning clearly carried the day for Newt...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/michaelbarone/s-1054250</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jan/26/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Few Words in Defense of Negative Campaigning]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those who take a certain pleasure in denouncing the evils negative
political advertising should have spent the last week in South Carolina.
They could have plunked down in front of TV sets, especially during
morning, early evening and late evening...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/michaelbarone/s-1044677</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jan/23/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[South Carolina Hoping to Pick Next President]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- The crowd at the Fox News/Wall Street Journal
debate in Myrtle Beach was feisty, with whoops and cheers for Newt
Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Rick Perry, though not so much
for Ron Paul.

But it wasn't nearly as ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/michaelbarone/s-1042902</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jan/19/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Obama Thumbs Nose at Founders With One-Man Rule]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of course President Obama is not concentrating on campaigning, White
House press spokesmen assured us -- as the president headed off to
Chicago for three fundraisers and a drop-in at his campaign
headquarters, two days after a high-roller ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/michaelbarone/s-1038479</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jan/16/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA['Tactical Voters' Went to Romney in New Hampshire]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[To win just under 40 percent of the vote in a primary with five active
candidates is pretty impressive, even for a candidate like Mitt Romney,
who started off with significant advantages in New Hampshire.

Yes, he is well-known there because he ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/michaelbarone/s-1036604</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jan/12/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Weakness That Saps the Strength of GOP Candidates]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[A presidential campaign exposes candidates' strengths and weaknesses.
The strengths they're eager to tell you about. So let's look at the
weaknesses.

Start with Rick Santorum, whose poll numbers in New Hampshire and South
Carolina have been ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/michaelbarone/s-1032413</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jan/09/2012</pubDate>
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