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        <description><![CDATA[The latest collected coverage of John McCain from The Daily Beast]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain Discovers Technology Late]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The notoriously tech-unsavvy senator's staff set up his account for him, but the real McCain soon took over-and now his pork tweets are the talk of Washington.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Political Movie Cameos]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mel Gibson is likely fuming over the latest casting news for the highly anticipated sequel to The Hangover. Former President Bill Clinton was spotted in Thailand on Saturday filming a cameo for The Hangover Part II, which reunites the original comedy...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Political Authors]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Books: Audacity of Hope (2006); Dreams From My Father (1995) 
 
Weeks on New York Times Best Sellers List: 270 
 
Total copies sold: 4,650,000 
 
Reported Advances: $500,000 for abridged version of Dreams From My Father, $425,000 for The Audacity...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Game Show Hosts]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Wheel of Fortune host has given more than $10,000 to conservative candidates, including Fred Thompson, John McCain, and Michael Steele. He's written for the conservative magazine Human Events and has a column in National Review, where he recently...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Meet the Mama Grizzlies]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Many have noted the Delaware Senate candidate's striking resemblance to Sarah Palin, but her true political doppelganger is Monica Lewinsky. Look at that bone structure, the way they purse their lips! The similarities between the chaste Mama Grizzly...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Speidi vs. The Salahis]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Tareq and Michaele Salahi entered our lives when they arrived at a White House state dinner in December 2009, although their presence was allegedly not requested. The couple, dubbed the "White House crashers," met President Obama and later showed off...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Turncoat Dozen]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Arizona senator won Tuesday's Republican primary in part thanks to his journey from calling for comprehensive immigration reform, even co-sponsoring a bill with the late Ted Kennedy, to becoming a spokesman for building the rest of the "danged"...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[This Week's Culture Feast]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Get ready to put on your favorite pair of tiny white shorts: The U.S. Open Tennis Championships kicks off this week in Flushing Meadows, New York, and it's gearing up to be a week full of enough drama to make even John McEnroe proud. As usual, Rafael...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:54:08 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pop Stars Turned Politicians ]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Location: London, EnglandMusical career: Drummer for Britpop giants Blur, '90s-'00sOffice(s) held: In 2007, Rowntree ran for and lost a Westminster council seat, representing the Labour Party, in his Marylebone High Street ward.Political stance:...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tan Celebrities ]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[One dermatologist has actually recommended a tanning intervention for the fake-hued crew. But even a federal tax on tanning won't stop Snooki from going bronze, although now she sprays it on. Her outrage at President Obama for the new 10 percent...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[May 15: The Week in Viral Videos]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This week, Saturday Night Live brought back "Delicious Dish," the popular '90s NPR parody. Host Betty White gave Alec Baldwin a run for his money, playing a baker legendary for her, er, muffin.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 13 May 2010 17:13:32 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[May 8: The Week in Viral Videos]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The opening sequence of Sunday night's Simpsons was somewhat questionable, with the cast lip-syncing Ke$ha's 'Tik Tok.' We're all for parodies of the song, and we appreciate lip-dub tributes, but this one was oddly free of bite.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 07 May 2010 17:10:05 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[April 17: The Week in Viral Videos]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Tina Fey hosted Saturday Night Live and eased right back into her famous Sarah Palin impression. The hilarious sketch poked fun at Palin's seemingly endless media ventures, envisioning her as the Oprah of "the real America."]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:53:34 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Saboteurs]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The biggest barrier to bipartisanship is the collusion among politicians, lobbyists, and activist organizations, which pump up hate in the service of hyper-partisanship. Former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey is a one-man emblem of this new...]]></description>
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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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            <description><![CDATA[Move over, Tina Fey. Julianne Moore has unexpectedly signed on to play Sarah Palin in HBO Films' Game Change, based on Mark Halperin and John Heilemann's book about the 2008 presidential elections. The film follows John McCain's campaign, from choosing...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Brownfield Video]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain: 'Of Course' Palin Can Beat Obama]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Guess it takes a maverick to not believe any of the polls. Asked on Fox News Sunday if Sarah Palin could beat President Obama if she decided to run, McCain exclaimed, "Of course she can." McCain praised his former running mate for inspiring "great...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Santorum: McCain Doesn't Understand Torture]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This won't turn out well.  Speaking with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Tuesday, former senator and current GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum had some harsh words for his former colleague John McCain: "He doesn't understand how enhanced...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain Slams Waterboarding]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Senator John McCain is taking a stand against those who credit "enhanced interrogation" with the killing of Osama bin Laden. In an op-ed in The Washington Post, McCain calls out former attorney general Michael Mukasey for claiming that waterboarding of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Libya Army to 'Pull Out' of Misrata]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Libya's national troops will soon "pull out" of Misrata, leaving local tribes to fight it out against the rebels who have made the city one of their strongholds, according to the country's deputy foreign minister. It's a big turning point for the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain: Libya Rebels 'Heroes']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sen. John McCain flew into the rebel stronghold of Benghazi "to get an on the ground assessment of the situation." "They are my heroes," McCain said of the rebels as he left his hotel in Benghazi. McCain is the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[U.S. Wraps Up Libya Combat Role]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Over to you, NATO: The Pentagon announced on Thursday that the U.S. will withdraw from air combat in Libya on Saturday, with NATO allies, France, and Britain taking over from there. Many in Congress were surprised by the announcement, which came at a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ed Harris Cast as McCain in Game Change]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[John McCain should be flattered. Four-time Academy Award nominee Ed Harris has been cast as John McCain in the upcoming HBO film Game Change, though the actor is 14 years the Arizona senator's junior. Harris will join Julianne Moore, who has been cast...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Britain, France Back Libya No-Fly Zone]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On the heels of reports that troops loyal to controversial Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi are launching aerial attacks on rebels, defeating them at a clash in the coastal town of Bin Jawwad on Sunday, Britain and France are in the process of drafting...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain Calls for Mubarak to Resign]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[U.S. Senator John McCain has called for President Hosni Mubarak, of Egypt, to step down amid mass protests across the country. McCain, who ran against President Obama for the presidency in 2008, made the announcement via Twitter shortly after a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[O Author Is McCain Speechwriter]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The author of the mysterious Obama novel has been revealed: O: A Presidential Novel was written by John McCain's former speechwriter Mark Salter, Time magazine's The Page reports. Salter worked for the senator for 19 years and co-wrote all of McCain's...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Senate Rejects START Treaty Fix]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A minor but crucial hurdle for the START treaty was cleared in the Senate on Saturday, as the chamber voted not to adopt an amendment written by Arizona's John McCain. The fix, which would have removed language that links offensive and defensive...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Senate Advances DADT]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Senate voted 63-33 Saturday to advance legislation to repeal a 17-year-old ban on openly gay soldiers in the military. The Don't Ask Don't Tell ban will be voted on at 3 p.m. and could reach President Obama's desk for approval by the end of this...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Senator John McCain continues to stand in the way of history: He argued strenuously against repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell on Thursday, saying a repeal would be "premature." He seized on the study's finding that 60 percent of Marines support the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Enough Votes to End 'Don't Ask']]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain Moves Goal Posts on DADT]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Don't Ask! First, Cindy McCain did an about-face on the  controversial policy for gays in the military. Now, it's her husband's  turn. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) said on Sunday that he would not immediately accept the results of the Pentagon's study on...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cindy McCain Slams DADT]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Dinner table discussions must be getting awkward at the McCain residence. Cindy McCain, the wife of Sen. John McCain (R), lent her celebrity to a video about bullying and suicides among gay youth. In her segment, McCain blasted the Pentagon's "Don't...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA['Don't Ask' Repeal Hits the Skids]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It looks like the effort to repeal of the military gay ban 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' may be over, or at least put on the back burner when Republicans take over the House of Representatives in January. Although President Obama claims he wants to overturn...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is McCain Breaking His Own Law?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Democrats are accusing Sen. John McCain of violating the campaign finance law which bears his name. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has complained to the Federal Election Commission that the Arizona Republican violated the restrictions...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[California Candidates Skip Palin Rally]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina were conspicuously absent from a Sarah Palin fundraiser in California Saturday-absent not just from the stage, but also from the Alaskan's speech. Palin was in Anaheim  to rally for 19 Republican candidates, and the fact...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Supporters Switching Sides]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The widespread enthusiasm that swept Barack Obama into office two years ago has evaporated and many of the voters who once bought into his brand of change are switching sides. According to a new Associated Press poll, a quarter of the people who voted...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tea Party's Influence Here to Stay]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[November will almost certainly mark a turning point in the history of the Tea Party, the moment they went from fringe political outsiders to voting members of Congress. According to a New York Times analysis, 33 Tea Party-supported candidates are in...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Business Is Wary of the Tea Party]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sure, all the talk about small government and low taxes sounds good, but business leaders are increasingly distrustful of the Tea Party. Last summer, 56 business leaders in South Carolina endorsed the Democratic candidate for governor over the sure-bet...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Meghan McCain on Palin "Drama"]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[At long last Meghan McCain is breaking her silence on Sarah Palin. While doing promotional rounds for her new book, Dirty Sexy Politics, McCain said Palin brought "drama, stress, complications, panic and loads of uncertainty" to her father's failed...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rubio, McCain Win GOP Primaries]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski and the Florida governor's race excepted, Tuesday's races mostly went as expected: Tea Party darling Marco Rubio cruised to victory in Tuesday's Senate Republican primary in Florida. On the Democratic side, Kendrick Meek...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[John McCain Wins Az. Primary]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Arizona Sen. John McCain survived by a comfortable margin Tuesday when he won the GOP primary against conservative challenger J.D. Hayworth. In one of the most public battles, McCain - once known as the "maverick" and a moderate - was forced to move...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain Eyes Comeback]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It's not quite the presidency, but John McCain (R-AZ) will likely win his primary battle against former Rep. J.D. Hayworth today, sending him back to the Senate for six more years. McCain is 15 to 21 points ahead in the polls, a big change from several...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain Poised for Primary Victory]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[John McCain may have learned a thing or two from his presidential campaign: The Arizona senator is poised for a big victory over primary challenger J.D. Hayworth on Tuesday-a surprising turn of events given that it originally seemed Hayworth might be...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain: I Won't Work With Dems]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[John McCain once prided himself on his willingness to work with Democrats on immigration reform. Not anymore: The senator from Arizona promised a caller on a local radio show that he would not work with Democrats on the issue. The woman asked him to...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain: Snooki "Too Good Looking"]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Things may have cooled off since Arizona Senator John McCain first tweeted Jersey Shore star Snooki in June, but the unlikely bond is blossoming again this week. The former presidential candidate commented on the tiny reality-TV star's July disorderly...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The GOP Goes Soft, Withdraws From the World]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[At Monday's debate, we learned that the GOP is no longer the party of George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Don Rumsfeld. Michael Tomasky on the eclipse of the neocons.
Did you notice at Monday night's Republican debate-of course you didn't; you lead a...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:01:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Big Goodbye: Why Some Abandon the Right]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Conventional wisdom holds that people tend to drift rightward as they age. But as Michael Tomasky suggests, ideological migration can involve a shift from right to left as well.
Not long ago, I wrote to an academic who studies the question of how...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 31 May 2011 15:51:24 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[May 29: 7 Best Moments From Sunday Talk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Pawlenty backs Ryan's Medicare plan, McCain and Sullivan think Palin can win, Daniels says he would have beaten Obama, and more in our Sunday talk roundup.
Pawlenty Backs Ryan's Plan
If Paul Ryan's Medicare plan came across former Minnesota Gov. Tim...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 29 May 2011 15:23:20 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is Sarah Palin Moving to Arizona?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Scottsdale is buzzing over reports the ex-governor has purchased a million-dollar ranch. Shushannah Walshe reports on the paper trail, what the neighbors think-and whether McCain's state will be Palin's 2012 base.
Plus, Andrew Sullivan: So You Thought...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Shushannah Walshe]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 25 May 2011 02:00:53 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA['Spouses Get a Bad Rap']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In this week's Newsweek, Cindy McCain on what it really takes to be a successful political wife, how blogs changed the game-and why you shouldn't mistake her for a Stepford wife.
I mean this in the nicest way: when John first ran for Congress, I did...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Cindy McCain]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 15 May 2011 23:21:43 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden Wives Interrogated]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Pakistan top spy blasted the U.S. raid on bin Laden in a Parliament meeting on Friday-but admitted his agency's own slip-ups, too, and offered his resignation. 
Plus, more updates below and full coverage here. 
Pakistan Spy Chief Admits Intel...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 May 2011 22:46:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Are Democrats Health-Care Hypocrites?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Democrats are feasting on the GOP's Medicare cuts one year after playing defense on their own cutbacks. Jill Lawrence on why neither side can resist pandering to seniors.
What if they held an election and nobody attacked anybody over Medicare? Only in...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Jill Lawrence]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 May 2011 22:37:46 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mitch Daniels' Hamlet Complex]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Indiana governor needs to jump into the 2012 race-or stop ruminating about it. Jill Lawrence on why playing the reluctant candidate is more likely to turn Daniels into a Fred Thompson than a George Washington.
One week of making the rounds as a...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Jill Lawrence]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 09 May 2011 22:36:07 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The GOP's Liability on the Fringe]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The birther craziness, along with the innuendo about Obama's grades and the purging of dissenters, revealed a deep GOP divide that risks undermining the party going into 2012, says Howard Kurtz.
The regular Tuesday meeting of the House Republican...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Howard Kurtz]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 08 May 2011 22:59:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Live Chat: Is Sarah Palin Over?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In this week's Newsweek, Howard Kurtz asks if Sarah Palin is over, as her presidential poll numbers shrink, her Fox ratings slip, and her media profile wanes. Join him for a live chat Thursday, May 5th at noon ET, to discuss the end of the Sarah Palin...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 03 May 2011 14:26:49 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[May 1: 7 Best Moments From Sunday Talk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Michele Bachmann blasts Obama's teleprompter, Paul Ryan defends his budget plan, Marco Rubio says he won't run in 2012, and more in our Sunday talk roundup.
Bachmann Rips Obama's Teleprompter
Well, that was fair and balanced. Fox News Sunday vetted...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 01 May 2011 14:11:27 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Jon Huntsman Bets Against History, Taking on Obama in 2012]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-29/jon-huntsman-for-president-2012-bets-against-history-to-take-on-boss-obama/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Lincoln trounced his erstwhile Civil War general, George McClellan; Truman dispatched his former commerce secretary, Henry Wallace; and now Obama is looking to do the same in 2012 against his outgoing China ambassador. Jill Lawrence on why Jon Huntsman...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Jill Lawrence]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 29 Apr 2011 21:13:58 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[April 24: 7 Best Moments From Sunday Talk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Lindsey Graham advises to ignore U.N. and bomb Gaddafi, McCain says the U.S has to take back the mission from NATO, Bloomberg doesn't want pay more taxes either, and more in our Sunday talk roundup.
Graham: Ignore UN, Gaddafi Needs to Go
Sen. Lindsey...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:51:48 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Rise of 'Foreign Policy Birthers']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[While domestic birthers think Obama is kin of the devil, the new "foreign policy birthers"-including John McCain, who urged more action in Libya this week-think he's a dithering Jimmy Carter, says Leslie H. Gelb.
Those who are convinced that Barack...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Leslie H. Gelb]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 23 Apr 2011 21:17:29 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Andrew Breitbart on Palin, Couric, Tina Fey, Glenn Beck and More]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-18/andrew-breitbarts-righteous-indignation-toward-the-left/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The conservative bomb-thrower's new book, out on Tax Day, is part memoir, part how-to manual. In an interview with Shushannah Walshe, he disses Glenn Beck and Katie Couric, revisits the Shirley Sherrod case, and makes his 2012 presidential...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Shushannah Walshe]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 18 Apr 2011 03:37:16 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[2012 Presidential Election Polls' Dirty Secret]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Another poll seems to confirm it: Donald Trump is the GOP's 2012 frontrunner. But Jack Germond says it doesn't mean much-the people surveyed don't know the issues.
This is high season for the poll-takers. In the 19 months leading up to the 2012...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Jack W. Germond]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:47:35 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney Offers Campaign Messaging Preview for Donors]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-13/mitt-romneys-2012-presidential-campaign-messaging-preview-for-donors/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Best positioned in the 2012 GOP field on the economy and job creation, seasoned in global business, and survivor of a great learning experience with health care in Massachusetts-a day after launching his presidential exploratory committee, Mitt Romney...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Shushannah Walshe]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:32:11 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Mitt Romney Won't Be President]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-12/mitt-romney-for-president-2012-health-care-tea-party-mean-he-wont-win/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The former Massachusetts governor launched a 2012 exploratory committee on Monday to a collective yawn. Romney should lead the GOP field-but his Tea Party misfires and connections to Obamacare mean he won't win, writes Mark McKinnon.
Mitt Romney tries...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Mark McKinnon]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:04:39 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Back on the Battlefield]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-10/how-john-mccain-elevated-his-profile-in-battle-over-obama-libya/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[In this week's Newsweek, Howard Kurtz looks at how the Libya debate snapped John McCain out of his 2008 funk-and into a fresh fight with Obama.
It was late ON a summer's night in 2009 when John McCain met Muammar Gaddafi, whose behavior bordered on...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Howard Kurtz]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:38:30 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Congress Puts Institute of Peace on the Budget Chopping Block]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-02/budget-cuts-congress-puts-institute-of-peace-on-the-chopping-block/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Institute of Peace, created under Reagan, has a relatively small $40 million budget, but its gorgeous new headquarters may have drawn the ire of congressional budget cutters. Eleanor Clift on its unlikely would-be rescuers-military brass.
A...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Eleanor Clift]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:38:51 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Problem With HBO's Game Change]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-31/the-problem-with-hbos-game-change/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[HBO is adapting a miniseries based on Game Change, the book about the 2008 election. But as Hollywood casts liberal actors to play all the parts, Meghan McCain doubts that it will be an accurate portrayal of what actually happened.
Game Change, the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Meghan McCain]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:35:34 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[March 20: 7 Best Moments From Sunday Talk]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-20/saif-gaddafi-admiral-mike-mullen-john-mccain-and-more/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The sound of anti-aircraft fire filled Tripoli Sunday night as U.S. and allied forces from France and Britain entered their second day of airstrikes against Col. Muammar Gaddafi's regime. Rebels cheered as Western fire took out regime targets earlier...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:36:43 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sell the GOP Presidential Debates!]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-18/gop-presidential-debates-the-republican-national-committee-should-sell/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Why shouldn't the Republican National Committee auction off the agonizingly boring presidential debates to the highest bidder? They can't get any less consequential, says former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer.
Someone at the Republican National...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Matt Latimer]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:12:10 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rudy Giuliani Plays 2012 Flirt]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-17/will-he-run-for-president-again-rudy-giuliani-plays-2012-flirt/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The former New York City mayor tells Shushannah Walshe he hasn't decided whether to enter the GOP field-but he's making a key trip to a presidential bellwether state he paid the price for ignoring in 2008.
Rudy Giuliani is headed up to New Hampshire...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Shushannah Walshe]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:33:40 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Meghan McCain: Let John McCain Go to Las Vegas]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-15/meghan-mccain-let-john-mccain-go-to-las-vegas/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The recession has hit Vegas harder than almost any other U.S. city, and many avid gamblers, including John McCain, have stopped visiting the Strip. Meghan McCain says it's time to go back.
"Vegas, baby!" Those two words from the movie Swingers have...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Meghan McCain]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:34:46 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Libya No-Fly Zone's American Backers]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-13/libya-no-fly-zones-american-backers/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[As the rebels retreat in Libya, WATCH VIDEO of the latest opinions on a no-fly zone over the country, from Bill Clinton's endorsement to Hillary's warning and Barack Obama keeping military intervention on the table.
Bill Clinton Endorses No-Fly Zone...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:12:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Don't Use U.S. Force in Libya!]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-08/obama-dont-use-us-force-in-libya/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[
The Obama administration is wavering over an intervention that would inevitably widen and trigger greater carnage, writes Leslie H. Gelb. Instead, the president should let the Europeans, Arabs, and Africans take the lead-with Washington only helping....]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Leslie H. Gelb]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:36:44 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[March 6: 7 Best Moments From Sunday Talk]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-06/bachmann-on-obama-mccain-on-gaddafi-newsweek-redesign-and-more/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Michele Bachmann slams Obama's "gangster government," McCain offers a solution to Gaddafi's insane government, and Tina Brown reveals Newsweek's new cover. That and more in our roundup.
Bachmann Slams Obama's 'Gangster Government' 
Meet the Press'...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:35:10 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Could Chris Christie Really Beat Obama?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-03/could-chris-christie-really-beat-obama-in-2012/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The New Jersey governor claims he knows he "could win" the White House in 2012, but he's not "ready to be president." Andrew Romano on why Christie isn't insane-though he shouldn't read much into early polls.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie isn't known...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Andrew Romano]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:50:29 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[February 27: 7 Best Moments From Sunday Talk]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-02-27/gaddafi-sons-mccain-on-libya-mike-huckabee-and-more/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Gaddafi's son Saif denies accusations of violence in Libya, John McCain pushes Obama to "get tough," and Huckabee gets soft on "Romneycare." That and more in our roundup.
Saif Gaddafi: We Live Here. We Die Here.
In exclusive interviews on This Week,...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:14:48 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The GOP Goes Soft, Withdraws From the World]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-06-14/gop-debate-shows-partys-shallowness-on-domestic-foreign-policy/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[At Monday's debate, we learned that the GOP is no longer the party of George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Don Rumsfeld. Michael Tomasky on the eclipse of the neocons.
Did you notice at Monday night's Republican debate-of course you didn't; you lead a...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Michael Tomasky]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:01:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Big Goodbye: Why Some Abandon the Right]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-31/the-big-goodbye-why-some-abandon-the-right/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Conventional wisdom holds that people tend to drift rightward as they age. But as Michael Tomasky suggests, ideological migration can involve a shift from right to left as well.
Not long ago, I wrote to an academic who studies the question of how...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Michael Tomasky]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 31 May 2011 15:51:24 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[May 29: 7 Best Moments From Sunday Talk]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-29/-tim-pawlenty-john-mccain-andrew-sullivan-and-more-sunday-talk/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Pawlenty backs Ryan's Medicare plan, McCain and Sullivan think Palin can win, Daniels says he would have beaten Obama, and more in our Sunday talk roundup.
Pawlenty Backs Ryan's Plan
If Paul Ryan's Medicare plan came across former Minnesota Gov. Tim...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 29 May 2011 15:23:20 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is Sarah Palin Moving to Arizona?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-25/sarah-palin-arizona-property-is-she-moving-to-scottsdale/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Scottsdale is buzzing over reports the ex-governor has purchased a million-dollar ranch. Shushannah Walshe reports on the paper trail, what the neighbors think-and whether McCain's state will be Palin's 2012 base.
Plus, Andrew Sullivan: So You Thought...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Shushannah Walshe]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 25 May 2011 02:00:53 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA['Spouses Get a Bad Rap']]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-15/cindy-mccain-on-the-successful-political-wife/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[In this week's Newsweek, Cindy McCain on what it really takes to be a successful political wife, how blogs changed the game-and why you shouldn't mistake her for a Stepford wife.
I mean this in the nicest way: when John first ran for Congress, I did...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Cindy McCain]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 15 May 2011 23:21:43 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden Wives Interrogated]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-12/bin-laden-raid-on-tape-breaking-news-updates/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Pakistan top spy blasted the U.S. raid on bin Laden in a Parliament meeting on Friday-but admitted his agency's own slip-ups, too, and offered his resignation. 
Plus, more updates below and full coverage here. 
Pakistan Spy Chief Admits Intel...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 May 2011 22:46:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Are Democrats Health-Care Hypocrites?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-12/medicare-political-battle-are-democrats-healthcare-hypocrites/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Democrats are feasting on the GOP's Medicare cuts one year after playing defense on their own cutbacks. Jill Lawrence on why neither side can resist pandering to seniors.
What if they held an election and nobody attacked anybody over Medicare? Only in...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Jill Lawrence]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 May 2011 22:37:46 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mitch Daniels' Hamlet Complex]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-09/mitch-daniels-for-president-2012-his-risky-hamlet-complex/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Indiana governor needs to jump into the 2012 race-or stop ruminating about it. Jill Lawrence on why playing the reluctant candidate is more likely to turn Daniels into a Fred Thompson than a George Washington.
One week of making the rounds as a...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Jill Lawrence]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 09 May 2011 22:36:07 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The GOP's Liability on the Fringe]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-08/republicans-liability-on-the-fringe-birthers-purists-threaten-2012/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The birther craziness, along with the innuendo about Obama's grades and the purging of dissenters, revealed a deep GOP divide that risks undermining the party going into 2012, says Howard Kurtz.
The regular Tuesday meeting of the House Republican...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Howard Kurtz]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 08 May 2011 22:59:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Live Chat: Is Sarah Palin Over?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-03/live-chat-howard-kurtz-and-the-end-of-the-sarah-palin-phenomenon/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[In this week's Newsweek, Howard Kurtz asks if Sarah Palin is over, as her presidential poll numbers shrink, her Fox ratings slip, and her media profile wanes. Join him for a live chat Thursday, May 5th at noon ET, to discuss the end of the Sarah Palin...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 03 May 2011 14:26:49 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[May 1: 7 Best Moments From Sunday Talk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Michele Bachmann blasts Obama's teleprompter, Paul Ryan defends his budget plan, Marco Rubio says he won't run in 2012, and more in our Sunday talk roundup.
Bachmann Rips Obama's Teleprompter
Well, that was fair and balanced. Fox News Sunday vetted...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 01 May 2011 14:11:27 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Jon Huntsman Bets Against History, Taking on Obama in 2012]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-29/jon-huntsman-for-president-2012-bets-against-history-to-take-on-boss-obama/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Lincoln trounced his erstwhile Civil War general, George McClellan; Truman dispatched his former commerce secretary, Henry Wallace; and now Obama is looking to do the same in 2012 against his outgoing China ambassador. Jill Lawrence on why Jon Huntsman...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Jill Lawrence]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 29 Apr 2011 21:13:58 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[April 24: 7 Best Moments From Sunday Talk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Lindsey Graham advises to ignore U.N. and bomb Gaddafi, McCain says the U.S has to take back the mission from NATO, Bloomberg doesn't want pay more taxes either, and more in our Sunday talk roundup.
Graham: Ignore UN, Gaddafi Needs to Go
Sen. Lindsey...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:51:48 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Rise of 'Foreign Policy Birthers']]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-23/john-mccain-foreign-policy-birther/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[While domestic birthers think Obama is kin of the devil, the new "foreign policy birthers"-including John McCain, who urged more action in Libya this week-think he's a dithering Jimmy Carter, says Leslie H. Gelb.
Those who are convinced that Barack...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Leslie H. Gelb]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 23 Apr 2011 21:17:29 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Andrew Breitbart on Palin, Couric, Tina Fey, Glenn Beck and More]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-18/andrew-breitbarts-righteous-indignation-toward-the-left/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The conservative bomb-thrower's new book, out on Tax Day, is part memoir, part how-to manual. In an interview with Shushannah Walshe, he disses Glenn Beck and Katie Couric, revisits the Shirley Sherrod case, and makes his 2012 presidential...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Shushannah Walshe]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 18 Apr 2011 03:37:16 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[2012 Presidential Election Polls' Dirty Secret]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-15/2012-presidential-election-polls-dirty-secret-us-voters-ignorance/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Another poll seems to confirm it: Donald Trump is the GOP's 2012 frontrunner. But Jack Germond says it doesn't mean much-the people surveyed don't know the issues.
This is high season for the poll-takers. In the 19 months leading up to the 2012...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Jack W. Germond]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:47:35 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney Offers Campaign Messaging Preview for Donors]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-13/mitt-romneys-2012-presidential-campaign-messaging-preview-for-donors/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Best positioned in the 2012 GOP field on the economy and job creation, seasoned in global business, and survivor of a great learning experience with health care in Massachusetts-a day after launching his presidential exploratory committee, Mitt Romney...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Shushannah Walshe]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:32:11 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Mitt Romney Won't Be President]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-12/mitt-romney-for-president-2012-health-care-tea-party-mean-he-wont-win/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The former Massachusetts governor launched a 2012 exploratory committee on Monday to a collective yawn. Romney should lead the GOP field-but his Tea Party misfires and connections to Obamacare mean he won't win, writes Mark McKinnon.
Mitt Romney tries...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Mark McKinnon]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:04:39 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Back on the Battlefield]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-10/how-john-mccain-elevated-his-profile-in-battle-over-obama-libya/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[In this week's Newsweek, Howard Kurtz looks at how the Libya debate snapped John McCain out of his 2008 funk-and into a fresh fight with Obama.
It was late ON a summer's night in 2009 when John McCain met Muammar Gaddafi, whose behavior bordered on...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Howard Kurtz]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:38:30 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Congress Puts Institute of Peace on the Budget Chopping Block]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-02/budget-cuts-congress-puts-institute-of-peace-on-the-chopping-block/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Institute of Peace, created under Reagan, has a relatively small $40 million budget, but its gorgeous new headquarters may have drawn the ire of congressional budget cutters. Eleanor Clift on its unlikely would-be rescuers-military brass.
A...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Eleanor Clift]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:38:51 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Problem With HBO's Game Change]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-31/the-problem-with-hbos-game-change/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[HBO is adapting a miniseries based on Game Change, the book about the 2008 election. But as Hollywood casts liberal actors to play all the parts, Meghan McCain doubts that it will be an accurate portrayal of what actually happened.
Game Change, the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Meghan McCain]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:35:34 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[March 20: 7 Best Moments From Sunday Talk]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-20/saif-gaddafi-admiral-mike-mullen-john-mccain-and-more/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The sound of anti-aircraft fire filled Tripoli Sunday night as U.S. and allied forces from France and Britain entered their second day of airstrikes against Col. Muammar Gaddafi's regime. Rebels cheered as Western fire took out regime targets earlier...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:36:43 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sell the GOP Presidential Debates!]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-18/gop-presidential-debates-the-republican-national-committee-should-sell/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Why shouldn't the Republican National Committee auction off the agonizingly boring presidential debates to the highest bidder? They can't get any less consequential, says former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer.
Someone at the Republican National...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Matt Latimer]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:12:10 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rudy Giuliani Plays 2012 Flirt]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-17/will-he-run-for-president-again-rudy-giuliani-plays-2012-flirt/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The former New York City mayor tells Shushannah Walshe he hasn't decided whether to enter the GOP field-but he's making a key trip to a presidential bellwether state he paid the price for ignoring in 2008.
Rudy Giuliani is headed up to New Hampshire...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Shushannah Walshe]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:33:40 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Meghan McCain: Let John McCain Go to Las Vegas]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-15/meghan-mccain-let-john-mccain-go-to-las-vegas/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The recession has hit Vegas harder than almost any other U.S. city, and many avid gamblers, including John McCain, have stopped visiting the Strip. Meghan McCain says it's time to go back.
"Vegas, baby!" Those two words from the movie Swingers have...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Meghan McCain]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:34:46 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Libya No-Fly Zone's American Backers]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-13/libya-no-fly-zones-american-backers/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[As the rebels retreat in Libya, WATCH VIDEO of the latest opinions on a no-fly zone over the country, from Bill Clinton's endorsement to Hillary's warning and Barack Obama keeping military intervention on the table.
Bill Clinton Endorses No-Fly Zone...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:12:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Don't Use U.S. Force in Libya!]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-08/obama-dont-use-us-force-in-libya/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[
The Obama administration is wavering over an intervention that would inevitably widen and trigger greater carnage, writes Leslie H. Gelb. Instead, the president should let the Europeans, Arabs, and Africans take the lead-with Washington only helping....]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Leslie H. Gelb]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:36:44 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[March 6: 7 Best Moments From Sunday Talk]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-06/bachmann-on-obama-mccain-on-gaddafi-newsweek-redesign-and-more/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Michele Bachmann slams Obama's "gangster government," McCain offers a solution to Gaddafi's insane government, and Tina Brown reveals Newsweek's new cover. That and more in our roundup.
Bachmann Slams Obama's 'Gangster Government' 
Meet the Press'...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:35:10 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Could Chris Christie Really Beat Obama?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-03/could-chris-christie-really-beat-obama-in-2012/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The New Jersey governor claims he knows he "could win" the White House in 2012, but he's not "ready to be president." Andrew Romano on why Christie isn't insane-though he shouldn't read much into early polls.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie isn't known...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Andrew Romano]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:50:29 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[February 27: 7 Best Moments From Sunday Talk]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-02-27/gaddafi-sons-mccain-on-libya-mike-huckabee-and-more/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Gaddafi's son Saif denies accusations of violence in Libya, John McCain pushes Obama to "get tough," and Huckabee gets soft on "Romneycare." That and more in our roundup.
Saif Gaddafi: We Live Here. We Die Here.
In exclusive interviews on This Week,...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:14:48 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain on Osama Photos: No Thanks]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Despite being one of a select group of Congress members permitted to see the bin Laden death photos, Sen. John McCain will pass. The combat veteran and former prisoner of war said he believes in their authenticity and has "seen enough dead bodies."]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 May 2011 21:12:11 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump Having 'Time of His Life']]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/mccain-trump-having-time-of-his-life/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Does John McCain think Donald Trump is a serious presidential candidate? On Meet the Press, the senator said that he'd let the people decide. But what if Sarah Palin ran?]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 24 Apr 2011 20:28:03 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain Won't Watch 'Game Change']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This maverick won't be tuning into HBO anytime soon. Sen. John McCain thinks Ed Harris, who's playing him in the film Game Change, is a "great actor." McCain hasn't read the book though, so he can't watch the movie.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:50:03 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Palin: Why We Lost in '08]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Would the GOP have been successful in 2008 if Sarah Palin, and not John McCain, headlined the campaign? Not that Palin suggested anything like that at the India Today Conclave in New Delhi. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:11:12 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rumsfeld on Bush's Troop Surge ]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/donald-rumsfeld-talks-iraq-troop-surge-on-gma/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[If former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had stayed in office, would there have been defeat in Iraq? In an exclusive live interview on GMA, Rumsfeld faced off with George Stephanopoulos.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:56:08 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain: 'Thank God' Rumsfeld Gone]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In an interview with GMA Thursday, John McCain refused to critique the president's reaction to Egypt. He did not, however, mince words when responding to former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's insults.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:50:12 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain's Crankiness Dissected]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/jon-stewart-dissects-john-mccains-crankiness/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Oh no he didn't! The Daily Show broke down John McCain's new curmudgeonly demeanor, and then went straight to the source, interviewing a fine felt puppet form of the Arizona senator.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 06 Jan 2011 07:52:52 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain on DADT: 'Very Sad Day']]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/john-mccain-on-dadt-repeal-sad-day/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Senator John McCain, an opponent of the military gay ban repeal, took the Senate floor today to explain the tragic consequences of distractions in the military.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:45:10 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Don't Ask McCain About DADT]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/john-mccain-defends-dont-ask-dont-tell/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[After the Senate blocked debate of DADT, John McCain faced questions regarding his support. He said that it's not the military's policy to "seek out" gay people. It's not!]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:50:08 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain to Obama: Come to AZ!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On Fox News Sunday, Sen. John McCain talked border security, saying, "I'd love for the president to come and visit the border, unfortunately he hasn't had time to do so." Oh, snap!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sen. McCain: Thanks for That, Vicente]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Vicente Fox dissed McCain's immigration stance by chalking it up to, in part, his age. McCain thanked him for that on Your World. Is it 'fair and balanced' to only have the GOP candidates on?]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA['Morning Joe' Crew Mocks McCain Ad]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[We're guessing this wasn't the response John McCain was going for when he shot this straight-talking ad about a certain "danged fence" in Arizona. And yes, that's fellow Republican Rep. John Shadegg chuckling along with the hosts. Source: Morning Joe]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain Gets Tough in "Danged Fence" Ad]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Things are getting weird in Arizona: here's John McCain's latest bid to lure GOP primary voters. It involves walking tough, talking tough, and, just before giving a tough, Eastwood-like stare, using the word "danged."]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain: More Conservative Than Beck?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Jon Stewart recreated Faisal Shahzad's foiled escape from America... using movie clips. Stewart then weighed in on John McCain's take on terrorists and Miranda rights, comparing the senator to an unexpectedly reasonable voice: Glenn Beck. Clip above....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Maverick? Try "Fighter"]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Who'd have dreamed this up two years ago? John McCain, a man more identified with the word "maverick" than James Garner or inexpensive cigarettes, has been backing away from the moniker, for reasons he explains to Chris Wallace.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain: Pull the Trigger on Iran]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sen. McCain threw down a fairly pointed gauntlet in the Senate Wednesday, pushing President Obama to take action with regard to curbing Iran's nuclear threat. "We keep pointing the gun," McCain said. "We haven't pulled a single trigger yet. And it's...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain: Palin Ad Won't Incite Violence]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Is John McCain-the target of an infamously under-handed 2000 campaign-bothered by Sarah Palin's possibly violent fund-raising material? Not so much: The senator dismissed the controversy, saying that words like "targeted" and "battleground" have long...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:54:32 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama, a Socialist? McCain Won't Say]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[There are smooth and not-so-smooth ways of dodging a question.  On Meet the Press  Sunday, John McCain opted for the latter, evading David Gregory's question of whether talk-radio host and former congressman J.D. Hayworth's claim that Obama has a...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:40:40 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain: Reform's 'Madoff Accounting']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Looks like Obama's sharp rebuttal to John McCain during Thursday's health-care summit didn't endear the president's plan to the Arizona Senator: McCain appeared on Good Morning America on Friday saying the reform's tax proposals involve "Bernie Madoff...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:01:18 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain: Brennan is Useless]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sen. John McCain had some harsh words Monday for counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan. McCain suggested on Fox & Friends that his time is up, saying that he's "lost any utility he could have" for Obama at this point and has "lost touch with reality."...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:51:01 -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>
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            <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>
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            <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>
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            <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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