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				<title>Lott falls, but Democrats don&#x27;t rise</title>
				<dc:creator>Eric Boehlert</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2002 17:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[ After nearly two weeks of fierce controversy, Mississippi Republican Sen. Trent Lott has finally relinquished his position as Senate majority leader. In a sense, it seems like the end of an era: He'd made remarks before that seemed to suggest an unhealthy nostalgia for the days of segregation and he'd always gotten away with it. This time, he didn't. And in the process, a glaring new light was thrown on his past and on the subtle race-baiting tactics used by others in the Republican Party. ]]></description>
				
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				<title>Clinton: Democrats &#x22;were missing in action&#x22;</title>
				<dc:creator>Bill Clinton</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2002 17:13:00 PST</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Former President Clinton minced no words in a speech he delivered Tuesday at NYU dissecting his party's serious losses in the midterm elections. "Democrats have to have ideas to win," he said. "We were missing in action in national security and we had no positive plan for America's domestic future." To get the party back on its feet, he says, hard changes need to be made -- but moving to the left is not one of them. ]]></description>
				
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				<title>Invasion of the Pelosi snatchers</title>
				<dc:creator>Arianna Huffington</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2002 11:16:00 PST</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Was it "Meet the Press" or the Sci-Fi Channel? Watching Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., make her first Sunday morning TV appearance since being elected House minority leader, I had to check the cable box twice to make sure. ]]></description>
				
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				<title>Democrats: Wrong in Iraq</title>
				<dc:creator>Joshua Micah Marshall</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 09:48:00 PST</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The Democrats lost so big this week, an emerging consensus has it, not because their message was rejected but because they didn't have much of a message at all. The president's persistence in making the case for war against Iraq gave Republicans something to vote for, the argument goes; Democrats weren't quite sure what their leaders thought. Perhaps if they'd played the part of the loyal opposition and made a forceful case against the president's policy, the election might have gone better for them. ]]></description>
				
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				<title>Did blacks stay home?</title>
				<dc:creator>Eric Boehlert</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2002 11:44:00 PST</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[After riding a decade-long wave of strong voter turnout among fiercely loyal African-Americans, Democrats on Tuesday may have crashed to defeat in part because black voters weren't inspired by the candidates or the issues and failed to turn out in force. ]]></description>
				
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				<title>Making Bush tell the truth about Iraq</title>
				<dc:creator>Brendan Nyhan</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2002 09:28:00 PST</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[ On Election Night, Republican candidates backed by President Bush won a resounding victory across the country. Facing a transformed political landscape, with a newly invigorated president and a war with Iraq looming, it's time to ask a crucial question: Will the media finally hold the president and his staff accountable for their repeated evasions and dissembling? ]]></description>
				
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				<title>Bring me the head of Terry McAuliffe!</title>
				<dc:creator>Arianna Huffington</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2002 13:18:00 PST</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The Republicans got it all Tuesday night. They got the House. They got the Senate. They got at least 20 of the 36 governorships at stake. And they got a massive boost of political momentum -- just as those ever-unreliable polls were hinting at a leak in the president's high-flying popularity balloon. ]]></description>
				
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				<title>Too little, too late?</title>
				<dc:creator>Eric Boehlert</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:38:00 PDT</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Ten months ago, with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks still a raw wound and the public rallying around President Bush, the best-case scenario for nervous Democrats was that the economic downturn would help them maintain their tenuous, one-seat hold on the Senate and to wrest the House away from Republicans. If only in political terms, they got just what they wanted. ]]></description>
				
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				<title>It&#x27;s the schools, stupid</title>
				<dc:creator>Arianna Huffington</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2002 09:53:00 PST</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[There are only 214 days left until the midterm election, and, like Diogenes going door-to-door in search of an honest man, Democratic Party strategists, desperate to win back the House, are wandering across the political wasteland in search of an issue to run on. They seem so lost: The economy is bouncing back, fear of an energy crisis has dimmed, Enron's stink has proved bipartisan and President Bush's wartime popularity has Republican candidates feeling smug enough to question the patriotism of any dissenters. (The only question is: When will the first "Can you trust your family's safety to Dick Gephardt?" ads hit the airwaves?) ]]></description>
				
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