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		<title>Tim Pawlenty: Channeling American patriotism, exceptionalism, and optimism</title>
		<link>http://whogetswhat.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/tim-pawlenty-channeling-american-patriotism-exceptionalism-and-optimism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Are Tågvold Flaten</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Courage to Stand]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few cherry-picked snap shots from former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty&#8217;s &#8220;Courage to Stand&#8221; web ad. As The New York Times points out: There is not a single awe-inspiring, patriotic image that is left out. But there&#8217;s no puppy in there. See the Jerry Bruckenheimer/James Cameronesque clip here, and let me know what you think. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whogetswhat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11779369&amp;post=1169&amp;subd=whogetswhat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting perspective on the State of the Union</title>
		<link>http://whogetswhat.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/interesting-perspective-on-the-state-of-the-union/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Are Tågvold Flaten</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Observations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C-SPAN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Robinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Reagan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State of the Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State of the Union 2011]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Robinson, speech writer for President Reagan: ”I hate the damn thing, and I consider the State of the Union one of the central mysteries of modern American life. The president doesn’t wanna give it, the Congress doesn’t wanna listen to it, and the networks don’t wanna cover it, and every year the damn thing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whogetswhat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11779369&amp;post=1165&amp;subd=whogetswhat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Campaign Poetry: Bill Clinton learns how to deal with questions about his faith</title>
		<link>http://whogetswhat.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/campaign-poetry-bill-clintons-faith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Are Tågvold Flaten</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campaign Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moral Majority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics of religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reverend Jerry Falwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Bumpers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I traveled the state, I had to contend with the rise of a new political force, the Moral Majority, founded by the Reverend Jerry Falwell, a conservative Baptist minister from Virginia who had won a large television following and was using it to build a national organization committee to Christian fundamentalism and right-wing politics. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whogetswhat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11779369&amp;post=1065&amp;subd=whogetswhat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Frank Rich Keeps the Myth Alive</title>
		<link>http://whogetswhat.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/frank-rich-keeps-the-myth-alive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Are Tågvold Flaten</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Myths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fund-raising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iowa primaries 2008]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times&#8217; Frank Rich writes the following in his Saturday column (October 9, 2010): &#8220;it was the miracle of social networking that helped enable Barack Obama’s small donors to overwhelm Hillary Clinton’s fat cats, and his online activists to out-organize her fearsome establishment pros.&#8221; Not exactly. Take it away Richard Wolffe (not exactly an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whogetswhat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11779369&amp;post=1073&amp;subd=whogetswhat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Robert S. McNamara&#8217;s Eleven Life Lessons</title>
		<link>http://whogetswhat.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/robert-mcnamaras-eleven-life-lessons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Are Tågvold Flaten</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Observations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fog of war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert McNamara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In &#8220;The Fog of War&#8221; (2003), former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara talks about eleven life lessons: Emphasize with your enemy. Rationality will not save us. There&#8217;s something beyond one&#8217;s self. Maximize efficiency. Proportionality should be a guideline in war. Get the data. Belief and seeing are both often wrong. Be prepared to reexamine your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whogetswhat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11779369&amp;post=985&amp;subd=whogetswhat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tea Pot Dome</title>
		<link>http://whogetswhat.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/tea-pot-dome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Are Tågvold Flaten</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Observations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political cartoon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea pot dome]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A political cartoon from 1924 about the Tea Pot Dome scandal. How does the cartoon describe the current political climate? Well, some Republicans are all up in it (tea), some are scared of it, while others are trying to stay as close as possible without suffering the fate of Icarus. Democrats, quite simply, are trying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whogetswhat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11779369&amp;post=982&amp;subd=whogetswhat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some interesting Gallup numbers</title>
		<link>http://whogetswhat.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/some-interesting-gallup-numbers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Are Tågvold Flaten</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Polling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gallup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gallup reveals who likes/dislikes Obama: Filed under: Polling<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whogetswhat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11779369&amp;post=972&amp;subd=whogetswhat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The presidential prospects of Senator Thune</title>
		<link>http://whogetswhat.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/the-presidential-prospects-of-senator-thune/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Are Tågvold Flaten</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 presidential campaign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Cillizza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dave Weigel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Thune]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Thune]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Hayes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen F. Hayes’ (Weekly Standard)  profile of South Dakota Senator John Thune (R) created a lot of buzz about the prospects of Mr. Thune running for president earlier this week. In a follow-up to the article, Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza called John Thune “the Republican Obama”, while Slate’s Dave Weigel responded with a short post titled No, no, no. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whogetswhat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11779369&amp;post=945&amp;subd=whogetswhat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Midterm History (1942-2006)</title>
		<link>http://whogetswhat.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/midterm-history-1942-2006/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Are Tågvold Flaten</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 midterm elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 midterms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nate SIlver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[17 midterm elections were held in the period between 1942 and 2006. How did the president&#8217;s party do? Losses in both chambers (12/17, 70,5%): 1942, 1946, 1950, 1954, 1958, 1966, 1974, 1978, 1986, 1990, 1994, 2006. Losses in the House, gains in the Senate (2/17, 11,8%): 1962 (D: -4, +2), 1970 (R: -12, +1). Losses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whogetswhat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11779369&amp;post=940&amp;subd=whogetswhat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Pledge to America &#8230; to Limit Abortions</title>
		<link>http://whogetswhat.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/a-pledge-to-america-to-limit-abortions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Are Tågvold Flaten</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 midterm elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Pledge to America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dana Bash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal funding of abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hyde Amendment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The GOP has released its 2010 election manifesto, entitled &#8220;A Pledge to America&#8221; &#8211; a new governing agenda built on the Priorities of Our Nation, the Principles We Stand for &#38; America&#8217;s Founding Values. Buzzwords: Priorities. Principles. Values. House Minority Leader John Boehner defended the GOP&#8217;s pledge in an interview with CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash, saying it&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whogetswhat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11779369&amp;post=901&amp;subd=whogetswhat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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