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            <title><![CDATA[McCain Discovers Technology Late]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Week in Red Carpet ]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Rachel Bilson wore a navy silk dress by Ferragamo with a sheer black bodysuit (compete with gloves) at the Ferragamo show in Milan. The next day, she appeared in Ferragamo again at the amFAR Charity Gala.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Meltdown Losers]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Position: Federal Reserve chairman (1987-2006)
Sin: Sowed the seeds of market excess.


The well-burnished legacy of Greenspan, the oracle of the free market and most important financial figure of the last two decades, was irreparably tarnished by...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[12 Best and Worst Sarah Palin Moments]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Just as everyone was watching Barack Obama make history as the first African-American presidential nominee, John McCain threw the world for a loop choosing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not pictured: Sen. Hillary Clinton cringing on...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sarah Palin: The Movie]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Brownfield Video]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rich: GOP Goes Mute]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Earlier this month when Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called to end the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, a strange thing happened: the GOP was silent. Despite the expected criticism from John McCain, Republicans had little...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Paulson on McCain's Crazy Gambit]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson recounts the high-pressure days in September 2008 when the entire financial system teetered on the edge of collapse in his new memoir, On the Brink, excerpted in The Wall Street Journal. Paulson recalls making the case...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Inside Sarah Palin's Compound]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin is regularly receiving briefings on domestic and foreign policy from a regular group of advisers and installing a television studio in her Wasilla home to reach Fox News with ease, but to what end? No one knows whether she's preparing for a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain's Right-Wing Challenger]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In 2008, John McCain was his party's nominee for president. In 2010, he's a target for right-wing attack, as the Republican, who has spent 23 years representing Arizona in the Senate, is facing the first legitimate challenge from his own party....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain to Vote Against Bernanke]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Senator John McCain said Monday that he will vote against a second term for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. "Our country is still facing an economic crisis and while I appreciate the service that Chairman Bernanke has performed as Federal...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain: Campaign-Finance Reform Is Dead]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was neither happy nor surprised that the Supreme Court overturned the campaign-finance laws that the senator spent much of his later career championing. "I went over to observe the oral arguments," McCain said on Face the Nation...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cindy McCain Poses For NOH8]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In what might make for a tense family dinner, Cindy McCain has joined her daughter Meghan in support of gay marriage, posing in a poster for California's NOH8 Campaign. "In the year since we've started the NOH8 Campaign, we've been surprised at some of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Palin Will Campaign for McCain]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[She may have retired from office, but Sarah Palin is back in the political saddle, hitting the campaign trail for Republicans in Texas, Arizona, and Minnesota, according to a statement released on her Facebook page Wednesday. In characteristic fashion,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Palin: 'Can I Call You Joe?']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Beef from the McCain campaign continues. After Sarah Palin criticized former McCain campaign adviser Steve Schmidt in her book Going Rogue, Schmidt is coming back saying that the campaign had to feed the vice-presidential candidate her lines. In the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dem Rep Rebuffs GOP Overture]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The GOP came calling, but Carney won't go. Early Wednesday Politico reported that, emboldened by their successful courtship of Alabama Democrat Parker Griffith, Republicans had reached out to another vulnerable Democratic representative, Pennsylvania's...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain Primary Gets Nasty]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sen. John McCain's presumptive challenger in the Republican primary for his Arizona Senate seat hasn't officially filed yet, but already the race is getting ugly. J.D. Hayworth, former congressman and talk-show host, had a complaint filed against him...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pawlenty on Palin's Spotlight Stealing]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty said he thinks Sarah Palin is "a political rock star," even if she stole his thunder in '08, when he was widely considered a shoo-in for John McCain's VP nomination. In a new interview with Newsweek, Pawlenty opens up...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain: Obama Didn't Negotiate]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) tore into President Obama for abandoning his campaign pledge to cut down on the bitter partisanship in Washington on Fox News Sunday. McCain said the environment in the capital is more toxic than under the Clinton...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Palin Explains McCain Hat]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin's fashion choices are still under scrutiny. While on vacation in Hawaii with her family, photographers spotted her wearing a McCain campaign visor, but with McCain's name blacked out with marker. On Wednesday, Palin pushed back against...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Palin Unprepared for Latino Issues]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[According to one of John McCain's top advisers on Hispanic issues, Sarah Palin was so uninformed about Latino issues and Latin American policy that she had to pull out of a scheduled Univision interview at the last moment. Ana Navaros, a GOP...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Poll Shows McCain in Jeopardy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Just two years after he was the party's nominee, could Republican voters kick John McCain to the curb? A new poll from Rasmussen Reports shows McCain leading potential challenger J.D. Hayworth by just two points, 45 to 43. Hayworth is a former U.S....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Republicans Think Obama Stole Election]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Public Policy Polling brings us the latest installment in pollsters' ongoing series: "Which crazy conspiracy theory do a majority of Republicans believe now?" The latest example is a question on whether President Obama's 2008 election victory, in which...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sarah Palin 101]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With George W. Bush raising money for a policy institute at SMU, the Washington Post's Richard Cohen suggest he do something more "constructive-establish the Institute for the Study of Sarah Palin." At this institute, Cohen writes, scholars might study...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[More Going Rogue Revelations]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[More excerpts are leaking from Sarah Palin's soon-to-be-released book Going Rogue and McCain manager Steve Schmidt, one of the main players in the would-be VP's memoir, has responded, calling her accusations "fanciful" and "total fiction." Though Palin...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain Aide Denies Palin Book Claim]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin's book Going Rogue isn't out until Tuesday but leaked excerpts reported by the Associated Press are already setting off denials from John McCain's old campaign staff. In response to the Palin's reported claim that she received a bill from...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Palin Wanted to Campaign in Michigan]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin was loath to cede Michigan to the Obama campaign last year and pressed McCain aides for weeks to let her go to the state, according to an excerpt of Sarah From Alaska. "If there's any time, Todd and I would love a quick return to...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[David Plouffe Reveals Campaign Secrets]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[David Plouffe demystifies his widely hailed management of the 2008 Obama campaign by detailing what went down behind the scenes in his new book, The Audacity to Win, due out Nov. 3. Obama's campaign manager bemoans how the team dealt with the Rev....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama 'Seriously' Considered Hillary]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In his new memoir, The Audacity to Win, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe dishes about Sarah Palin and Obama's vice presidential selection process. Evidently, Obama thought "seriously" about picking Hillary Clinton and she made the first two cuts...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Testosterone Dips in McCain Voters]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A study conducted on the eve of Barack Obama's election reveals that Republican-voting males nationwide may have experienced a dip in testosterone levels, which is often linked to an increased risk of premature death. The small-scale research published...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain Backs Up McChrystal]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sen. John McCain is back in the news today, appearing on State of the Union to claim that the reported deployment request for 10,000 to 20,000 military personnel to be sent to Afghanistan is "an error of historic proportions." The former presidential...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[GOP Dials Down Obama Criticism]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Despite attacks from RNC Chairman Michael Steele and pundit Rush Limbaugh that were criticized as anti-American, Republicans have remained eerily silent since Obama's surprise Nobel Peace Prize win. "There will be an outcry from those on the right who...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Schmidt: Palin Would Be Catastrophe]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Steve Schmidt, campaign manager for John McCain's failed 2008 presidential bid, said on Friday that if McCain's vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, were the GOP nominee in 2012, the Republicans could have a "catastrophic election." When asked how...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The 2008 campaign is so yesterday-even for onetime rivals John McCain and Mitt Romney. The Arizona senator is co-hosting a two-part fundraiser with Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) for Romney's Free and Strong America PAC on Wednesday. Supporters can shell out $300...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sarah Palin's Next Move]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ex-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is set to give a "wide-ranging" policy speech to an audience in Hong Kong this week, and she's brought along Sen. John McCain's foreign-policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, to help her prep for it. Her choice offers some...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Politicians Need Privacy, Too]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Is the public better off knowing all the tawdry details in tell-alls like Jenny Sanford's memoir and Game Change? Meghan McCain on political oversharing.
Over the years I've been accused of oversharing. Some people like this aspect of my personality...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Meghan McCain]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Trouble With John McCain]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The original GOP maverick ran to the right in his 2008 presidential bid. So why is he suddenly so vulnerable to a conservative challenger that he needs Sarah Palin to help save him? 
As Arizona Senator John McCain runs for his fifth term, he should be...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Reihan Salam]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Tea Party, Day 1]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[John Avlon speaks to Tom Tancredo about his suggested "literacy test" for voters, and the Tea Partiers form a political action committee to target Dems in 2010 races. Avlon is the author of Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe Is Hijacking America
Tom...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[John Avlon]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Carly Fiorina's Demon Sheep]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The California Senate candidate's new Web video-portraying her primary rival as a demonic sheep-has gone viral, and been viciously mocked. Benjamin Sarlin talks to Fiorina's camp about the response. 
Candidates take all sorts of abuse in campaign ads,...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Benjamin  Sarlin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:29:04 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Discharged Gay Vet: Let Us Back in the Army]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Just a handful of loud town hall meetings could send politicians running away from reversing Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Anthony Woods, a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom who was discharged under DADT, on how to implement smart policy.
On Tuesday,...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Anthony Woods]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:31:51 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grill Him Again!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama's no-holds-barred meeting was good for him-and for Republicans. Mark McKinnon on why "question time" should be a regular feature.
In one day last week, Barack Obama did more than he's done in a year to prove he's willing to walk the walk to...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Mark McKinnon]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:01:11 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buck Up, Democrats]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  A spate of House retirements in the South is casting a pall over Dems' 2010 chances. But the situation may not be as bad as it looks. Benjamin Sarlin looks at how the races are shaping up.
Retirements are rarely good news for a party's chances in...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Benjamin  Sarlin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:45:06 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Bad Ideas Epidemic]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[After a year in office, Obama still hasn't moved America beyond dead ideas on health care, financial markets, and taxes. Matt Miller on the need for new thinking. 
As Barack Obama marks his first anniversary in office, America confronts a harsh truth:...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Matt Miller]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:48:43 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[New Wingnut Target: 'RINO' Scott Brown]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Not a week after Scott Brown's stunning Senate victory, the overheated praise is dissolving into accusations that he's a Republican in Name Only. John Avlon on the out-of-control RINO-hunting impulse. Avlon is the author of Wingnuts: How the Lunatic...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[John Avlon]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:45:55 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bringing Back David Plouffe Will Totally Work]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Former Bush and McCain strategist Mark McKinnon says the return of Obama campaign guru David Plouffe will work by getting the president better press coverage. But will a political fix solve a policy problem?
Here's a seeming contradiction for you....]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Mark McKinnon]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:16:06 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[I Just Can't Hate John Edwards]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-21/i-just-cant-hate-john-edwards/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Yes, he lied, and lied about the lying, and there's a kid involved. But is he really that much worse than Rudy Giuliani and the roll call of other wayward American pols? 
Not a lot of people are feeling sorry for John Edwards today. Let me see if I...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Eric Alterman]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:13:45 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Palin-Brown 2012?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The buzz about Scott Brown's 2012 veep prospects began within hours of his stunning Senate win. But Glenn Beck and other right-wing kingmakers say he's not ready for prime time.
Scott Brown's shocking Massachusetts win immediately makes him the most...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Benjamin  Sarlin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:08:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Who Will Fall Next?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Scott Brown's upset win has Republicans licking their chops about this fall's midterms. A Daily Beast survey of the GOP's best bets for big pickups. 
The rebels haven't been this hot in Massachusetts since days of Concord and Lexington. Republican...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Samuel P. Jacobs]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Was It the Truck?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Scott Brown's upset in Massachusetts came after months of campaigning in his beloved pickup. From Fred Thompson to Richard Nixon, VIEW OUR GALLERY of candidates who tailgated for votes.
Click Image Below to View our Gallery of Politicians on...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:42:13 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The GOP's New Roadmap]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The secret to Scott Brown's success in Massachusetts was his strong appeal to independent voters-a template for the GOP in 2010, and a Democratic nightmare. 
Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts Tuesday tells us a lot about the power of independents...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nicolle Wallace]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:28:48 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Jury Is Still Out]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama brought great assets to the office of the president. But McCain money man Fred Malek argues he has yet to deliver on the promise of his leadership skills. 
I was quite hopeful and optimistic as he approached taking office. I felt that he would...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Fred Malek]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:00:54 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney's Man]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[If Scott Brown pulls off an upset in the race to replace Ted Kennedy in the Senate, he may have Mitt Romney to thank. Samuel P. Jacobs on the 2012 GOP presidential hopeful's hidden hand.
There are a number of forces driving Republican Scott Brown's...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Samuel P. Jacobs]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:44:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[January 16: The Week in Viral Videos]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[From jokes about the NBC mess to Pat Robertson's Haiti faux pas, Jennifer Love Hewitt's odd grooming habits to Palin's Fox News debut, watch the buzziest viral videos of the week.
Click Image Below to View Our Gallery of the Week in Viral...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:47:05 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Politicians Gone Crazy]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-13/politicians-gone-crazy/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The real revelation in the new book Game Change: Campaigns turn our politicians into lunatics.
"You all have worked in these campaigns," Soledad O'Brien marveled on Larry King the other night as his roundtable of pundits dished on Game Change, the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Tina Brown]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:28:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[John McCain or Jersey Shore?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[According to the new political bestseller Game Change, John McCain drops enough F-bombs to fit right in on the hit MTV reality show Jersey Shore. Can you tell the difference between Big Mac and America's favorite tanned and toned Italian-American...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:19:42 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[More Juicy Election Details]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ We've all heard about John Edwards and Harry Reid, but what about John and Cindy McCain, Mitt Romney, and Joe Biden? The Daily Beast speed reads John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's Game Change.
Published today, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's Game...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[ The Daily Beast]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:00:31 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Harry Reid Was Right]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Yes, the Senate leader's "light-skinned" comments about Obama were uncomfortable. But that's because he spoke the truth about white attitudes-a truth even Colin Powell concedes. 
There's nothing Americans love more than demanding "honest talk" about...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Peter Beinart]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:07:30 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The GOP's Three-Headed Monster]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-25/the-gops-three-headed-monster/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Republicans are divided on how to attack Obama's foreign policy-and some are even supporting him. Author James Mann on the struggle within the opposition party.
Over the past six weeks, Barack Obama has suddenly been acting like the Energizer...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[James Mann]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:33:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Health Care: A Critic's Index]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Now that the Senate has spoken, the overhaul bill could be law by February. Tunku Varadarajan offers a skeptical A-Z guide to the defining domestic political fight of 2009.
The Senate has voted on health-care reform. As the nation exhales in profound...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Tunku Varadarajan]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:33:30 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[December 20: 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-20/december-20-7-best-moments-from-sunday-talk/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[McCain critiques Palin's visor choice, David Axelrod rethinks calling Howard Dean "insane," and did Joe Lieberman actually save health care? That and more in our Sunday roundup.
Howard Dean: Nothing Personal, But Your Bill's Still Crazy
The big...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:54:58 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Most Courageous Man in DC]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-18/an-outbreak-of-courage-on-capitol-hill/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[
Freshman Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello is one of the most vulnerable incumbents in the country next year. So what on earth is he doing voting his conscience on health care?
Watching the action on Capitol Hill these days, the definition of national...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Adam Clymer]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bring Back That Wall!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Would a new bill bringing back Glass-Steagall prevent another banking meltdown? Nomi Prins on why change is urgently needed.
The Obama administration is talking tough but acting tame with respect to Wall Street. But a pair of senators is coming out...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[The GOP's New Health-Care Hoax]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Shame on John McCain-and every other Republican who says the Senate health deal would foist single-payer on the country. 
It's no surprise that Republicans want to halt the march to historic health-care reform with any calumny they can muster. But...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Matt Miller]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[December 6: Top 7 Moments from Sunday Talk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Hillary hedges on Obama's Afghanistan deadline, McCain responds to Palin's charges, and Mary Matalin finds a new way to mock James Carville. That and more in our Sunday roundup.
Gates and Clinton Clarify Obama's 2011 Deadline: There Is No...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee's End Times]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Commuting the sentence of a cop-killer may be the least of Huckabee's problems.  John Batchelor on the former Arkansas governor's mindless evangelism-and why the GOP should just skip the 2012 election. 
After the tragedy of the sadistic cop-killer...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[John Batchelor]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:50:18 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Politicians Need Privacy, Too]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Is the public better off knowing all the tawdry details in tell-alls like Jenny Sanford's memoir and Game Change? Meghan McCain on political oversharing.
Over the years I've been accused of oversharing. Some people like this aspect of my personality...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Meghan McCain]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:04:58 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Trouble With John McCain]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The original GOP maverick ran to the right in his 2008 presidential bid. So why is he suddenly so vulnerable to a conservative challenger that he needs Sarah Palin to help save him? 
As Arizona Senator John McCain runs for his fifth term, he should be...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Reihan Salam]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:29:33 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Tea Party, Day 1]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[John Avlon speaks to Tom Tancredo about his suggested "literacy test" for voters, and the Tea Partiers form a political action committee to target Dems in 2010 races. Avlon is the author of Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe Is Hijacking America
Tom...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[John Avlon]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:36:59 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Carly Fiorina's Demon Sheep]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The California Senate candidate's new Web video-portraying her primary rival as a demonic sheep-has gone viral, and been viciously mocked. Benjamin Sarlin talks to Fiorina's camp about the response. 
Candidates take all sorts of abuse in campaign ads,...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Benjamin  Sarlin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:29:04 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Discharged Gay Vet: Let Us Back in the Army]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-02-04/the-dont-ask-dont-tell-battle-is-just-beginning/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Just a handful of loud town hall meetings could send politicians running away from reversing Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Anthony Woods, a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom who was discharged under DADT, on how to implement smart policy.
On Tuesday,...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Anthony Woods]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:31:51 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grill Him Again!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama's no-holds-barred meeting was good for him-and for Republicans. Mark McKinnon on why "question time" should be a regular feature.
In one day last week, Barack Obama did more than he's done in a year to prove he's willing to walk the walk to...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Mark McKinnon]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:01:11 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buck Up, Democrats]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  A spate of House retirements in the South is casting a pall over Dems' 2010 chances. But the situation may not be as bad as it looks. Benjamin Sarlin looks at how the races are shaping up.
Retirements are rarely good news for a party's chances in...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Benjamin  Sarlin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:45:06 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Bad Ideas Epidemic]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[After a year in office, Obama still hasn't moved America beyond dead ideas on health care, financial markets, and taxes. Matt Miller on the need for new thinking. 
As Barack Obama marks his first anniversary in office, America confronts a harsh truth:...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Matt Miller]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:48:43 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[New Wingnut Target: 'RINO' Scott Brown]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Not a week after Scott Brown's stunning Senate victory, the overheated praise is dissolving into accusations that he's a Republican in Name Only. John Avlon on the out-of-control RINO-hunting impulse. Avlon is the author of Wingnuts: How the Lunatic...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[John Avlon]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:45:55 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bringing Back David Plouffe Will Totally Work]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-24/can-plouffe-save-obamas-bacon/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Former Bush and McCain strategist Mark McKinnon says the return of Obama campaign guru David Plouffe will work by getting the president better press coverage. But will a political fix solve a policy problem?
Here's a seeming contradiction for you....]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Mark McKinnon]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:16:06 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[I Just Can't Hate John Edwards]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-21/i-just-cant-hate-john-edwards/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Yes, he lied, and lied about the lying, and there's a kid involved. But is he really that much worse than Rudy Giuliani and the roll call of other wayward American pols? 
Not a lot of people are feeling sorry for John Edwards today. Let me see if I...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Eric Alterman]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:13:45 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Palin-Brown 2012?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The buzz about Scott Brown's 2012 veep prospects began within hours of his stunning Senate win. But Glenn Beck and other right-wing kingmakers say he's not ready for prime time.
Scott Brown's shocking Massachusetts win immediately makes him the most...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Benjamin  Sarlin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:08:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Who Will Fall Next?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Scott Brown's upset win has Republicans licking their chops about this fall's midterms. A Daily Beast survey of the GOP's best bets for big pickups. 
The rebels haven't been this hot in Massachusetts since days of Concord and Lexington. Republican...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Samuel P. Jacobs]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:42:38 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Was It the Truck?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Scott Brown's upset in Massachusetts came after months of campaigning in his beloved pickup. From Fred Thompson to Richard Nixon, VIEW OUR GALLERY of candidates who tailgated for votes.
Click Image Below to View our Gallery of Politicians on...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[ The Daily Beast]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:42:13 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The GOP's New Roadmap]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The secret to Scott Brown's success in Massachusetts was his strong appeal to independent voters-a template for the GOP in 2010, and a Democratic nightmare. 
Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts Tuesday tells us a lot about the power of independents...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nicolle Wallace]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:28:48 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Jury Is Still Out]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama brought great assets to the office of the president. But McCain money man Fred Malek argues he has yet to deliver on the promise of his leadership skills. 
I was quite hopeful and optimistic as he approached taking office. I felt that he would...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Fred Malek]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:00:54 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney's Man]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[If Scott Brown pulls off an upset in the race to replace Ted Kennedy in the Senate, he may have Mitt Romney to thank. Samuel P. Jacobs on the 2012 GOP presidential hopeful's hidden hand.
There are a number of forces driving Republican Scott Brown's...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Samuel P. Jacobs]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:44:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[January 16: The Week in Viral Videos]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[From jokes about the NBC mess to Pat Robertson's Haiti faux pas, Jennifer Love Hewitt's odd grooming habits to Palin's Fox News debut, watch the buzziest viral videos of the week.
Click Image Below to View Our Gallery of the Week in Viral...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:47:05 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Politicians Gone Crazy]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-13/politicians-gone-crazy/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The real revelation in the new book Game Change: Campaigns turn our politicians into lunatics.
"You all have worked in these campaigns," Soledad O'Brien marveled on Larry King the other night as his roundtable of pundits dished on Game Change, the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Tina Brown]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:28:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[John McCain or Jersey Shore?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-11/john-mccain-or-jersey-shore/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[According to the new political bestseller Game Change, John McCain drops enough F-bombs to fit right in on the hit MTV reality show Jersey Shore. Can you tell the difference between Big Mac and America's favorite tanned and toned Italian-American...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[ The Daily Beast]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:19:42 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[More Juicy Election Details]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ We've all heard about John Edwards and Harry Reid, but what about John and Cindy McCain, Mitt Romney, and Joe Biden? The Daily Beast speed reads John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's Game Change.
Published today, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's Game...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[ The Daily Beast]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:00:31 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Harry Reid Was Right]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Yes, the Senate leader's "light-skinned" comments about Obama were uncomfortable. But that's because he spoke the truth about white attitudes-a truth even Colin Powell concedes. 
There's nothing Americans love more than demanding "honest talk" about...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Peter Beinart]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:07:30 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The GOP's Three-Headed Monster]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-25/the-gops-three-headed-monster/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Republicans are divided on how to attack Obama's foreign policy-and some are even supporting him. Author James Mann on the struggle within the opposition party.
Over the past six weeks, Barack Obama has suddenly been acting like the Energizer...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[James Mann]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:33:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Health Care: A Critic's Index]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-25/health-care-a-critics-index/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Now that the Senate has spoken, the overhaul bill could be law by February. Tunku Varadarajan offers a skeptical A-Z guide to the defining domestic political fight of 2009.
The Senate has voted on health-care reform. As the nation exhales in profound...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Tunku Varadarajan]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:33:30 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[December 20: 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-20/december-20-7-best-moments-from-sunday-talk/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[McCain critiques Palin's visor choice, David Axelrod rethinks calling Howard Dean "insane," and did Joe Lieberman actually save health care? That and more in our Sunday roundup.
Howard Dean: Nothing Personal, But Your Bill's Still Crazy
The big...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:54:58 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Most Courageous Man in DC]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-18/an-outbreak-of-courage-on-capitol-hill/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[
Freshman Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello is one of the most vulnerable incumbents in the country next year. So what on earth is he doing voting his conscience on health care?
Watching the action on Capitol Hill these days, the definition of national...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Adam Clymer]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:48:07 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bring Back That Wall!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Would a new bill bringing back Glass-Steagall prevent another banking meltdown? Nomi Prins on why change is urgently needed.
The Obama administration is talking tough but acting tame with respect to Wall Street. But a pair of senators is coming out...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:22:49 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The GOP's New Health-Care Hoax]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Shame on John McCain-and every other Republican who says the Senate health deal would foist single-payer on the country. 
It's no surprise that Republicans want to halt the march to historic health-care reform with any calumny they can muster. But...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Matt Miller]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:18:14 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[December 6: Top 7 Moments from Sunday Talk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Hillary hedges on Obama's Afghanistan deadline, McCain responds to Palin's charges, and Mary Matalin finds a new way to mock James Carville. That and more in our Sunday roundup.
Gates and Clinton Clarify Obama's 2011 Deadline: There Is No...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:37:01 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee's End Times]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-05/mike-huckabees-end-times/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Commuting the sentence of a cop-killer may be the least of Huckabee's problems.  John Batchelor on the former Arkansas governor's mindless evangelism-and why the GOP should just skip the 2012 election. 
After the tragedy of the sadistic cop-killer...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[John Batchelor]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:50:18 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain Family at Odds on Gay Marriage]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Cindy McCain has joined her daughter to become a poster girl for same-sex marriage, with both women appearing in a new series of ads for the group NOH8. But what does John McCain, who opposes gay marriage, think of this house divided? CNN]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:03:30 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Palin Controversy?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Well, this interview surely won't help to clear John McCain's name. When Matt Lauer asks the senator to respond to allegations that his people didn't vet Sarah Palin-as revealed in the controversial new book Game Change-McCain says he "wouldn't know." Huh?]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:08:13 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Palin a 'Terrifying' Choice?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/mark-halperin-and-john-heilemann-on-60-minutes/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Turns out it wasn't only liberals who questioned Sarah Palin's smarts on the campaign trail. On 60 Minutes Sunday, Game Change co-author Mark Halperin says McCain advisers secretly hoped the GOP candidate would lose-just to keep Palin out of the White...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:27:43 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Franken Cuts Off Lieberman]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Things got a little tense on the Senate floor Thursday in the debate over health reform, as Al Franken denied Joe Lieberman extra speaking time. But John McCain came to his defense.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:01:53 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain for President 2012? Unlikely.]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/mccain-on-running-for-president-again/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[A number of Republican names are being tossed around for 2012 including Sarah Palin, but will the Maverick make a third run for the White House? His response to Neil Cavuto pressing him on his presidential ambitions: "How many times do you want me to...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:01:03 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Plouffe Takes a Swipe at Fox News]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/david-plouffe-fox-was-mccain-propaganda-channel/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe chimed in on the Fox News-White House battle Sunday. playing down the network's influence and claiming that in 2008, it was a "24-hour propaganda channel for the McCain campaign." Meet the Press]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:13:46 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[John McCain's Sunday Morning Zinger]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On Face the Nation, John McCain echoed other pols' belief that a public option will, in fact, pass in the Senate, despite opposition from some conservative Democrats. "I think that Blue Dogs bark but never bite," he said, delivering the soundbite of...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:48:28 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain Admits Palin Campaign 'Tensions']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[John McCain responded to a prediction by former campaign strategist Steve Schmidt that a presidential run for Sarah Palin in 2012 would be "catastrophic," saying that while there were some tensions with the Palin camp, she is still a force to be...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:05:30 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain 'Proud' of Obama's Nobel Win]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The GOP was quick to lash out against Obama's Nobel Prize win, but Sen. John McCain tells John King, very diplomatically, that he's proud of the win and that the president now has a lot to live up to. CNN]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:02:10 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Beck: McCain Worse Than Obama]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In an online interview with Katie Couric, Fox host Glenn Beck says he would have picked Hillary Clinton over Sen. John McCain in the 2008 election and that McCain would have been worse for the country than Barack Obama. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:24:02 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[And the Tweets Shall Make Us Free]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/john-mccain-on-twitter-ted-kennedy-/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Sen. John McCain extols the virtues of Twitter and Ted Kennedy to The Tonight Show audience. On balance, it seems like democracy is going to be a-okay. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:54:32 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gibbs Fires Back at Cheney]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/gibbs-cheney-was-wrong/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Robert Gibbs responds to Dick Cheney's most recent comments on torture by saying Cheney's facts are "wrong." Your move, Mr. Cheney. ]]></description>
       <source url="http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/"><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/]]></source>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:52:55 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Torture Kept Us Safe? No Way]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/mccain-on-torture-tactics/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[John McCain, in a fiery appearnce on Face the Nation, tells Bob Shieffer that enhanced interrogations not only violated the Geneva Conventions, but has helped Al Qaeda recruitment.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:47:03 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain's Fond Memories of Kennedy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[John McCain shares his personal memories of Ted Kennedy and describes the senator as almost "irreplaceable." Source: Today]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:42:43 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain Booed for Saying Obama Respects Constitution]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A portion of an Arizona town hall audience booed when Sen. McCain said Obama respects the Constitution, but McCain kept the crowd in check and urged respect for the president.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:36:40 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain: Change? What Change?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/mccain-obama-not-changing-washington/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Sen. John McCain tells State of the Union's John King that President Obama isn't exactly reaching across the aisle as much as he had promised. CNN]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:27:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[John McCain on Obama and Iran]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[McCain tells David Gregory he believes the president should speak out against the 'sham' elections in Iran. Source: TODAY]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:36:23 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain on Iran's 'Sham' Election]]></title>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:17:02 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Meghan McCain: Practice What I Preach]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Meghan McCain tells Stephen Colbert she's a pro-sex Republican... just don't let her dad know. He's kind of tough. Clip above; full video here.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 19 May 2009 08:35:47 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Roberta McCain, One Tough Mother]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/mrs-mccain-talks-tough/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[McCain tells the Tonight Show audience that knowing her son was in a P.O.W. camp wasn't hard. Listening to him swear about it? That's another story.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 14 May 2009 08:44:54 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain: Don't Prosecute]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/mccain-on-torture-memos/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[On Fox & Friends Friday, John McCain said we did not need to see the torture memos and that their release was setting a terrible precedent.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:36:24 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain: I Want Obama to Succeed]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/mccain-on-gop-obama/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[John McCain talks GOP leadership with Jay Leno-notably leaving out the name of one governor-and offers a vision of 'loyal opposition' that may not thrill some Republicans. NBC]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:43:55 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain Hedges on Palin 2012?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[How times change: not long ago, Sen. McCain wanted Sarah Palin to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. Now he's not so sure about her for 2012. Source: MSNBC]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:59:59 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ingraham Fires Back at McCain]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[When Ingraham called Meghan McCain 'plus-sized,' it wasn't about McCain's weight. It was about Hollywood. We just don't get her comedy, man. The O'Reilly Factor]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:53:55 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kids Say the Darndest Things ]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/mccain-on-daughters-dating-woes/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[On Fox News Sunday, Sen. John McCain laughs off his daughter's recent comments in a Daily Beast blog post blaming him and the election for her single status.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:12:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain Twitters]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mark McKinnon was right-Twitter has jumped the shark. The proof? Even John McCain is tweeting now. Source: Fox News]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:44:48 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Did She Have an Affair with McCain?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/accused-mccain-mistress-speaks/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The litigation has ended and her name has been cleared, but Vicki Iseman tells the CBS Early Show the NY Times still has explaining to do. Visit CBS News to read more.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:03:04 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain to Prez: Explain the Helicopter]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/mccain-to-obama-explain-the-helicopter/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[At the Fiscal Responsibility Summit, McCain tells Obama he'll have to 'curb some of the excesses in procurement' - like the presidential helicopter program. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:13:44 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain Dodges Limbaugh Question]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/mccain-avoids-limbaugh-controversy/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Apparently even mavericks are afraid of saying whether they agree with Rush Limbaugh's recent comments about wanting Obama to fail: check out McCain on GMA.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:21:26 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Foes No More: Obama Praises McCain]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Can Washington stand all this inter-party love much longer? At a dinner last night, Barack Obama praised John McCain for his patriotism and bipartisanship.]]></description>
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