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	<title>The Hill's Pundits Blog</title>
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		<title>Is John McCain Bush's Poodle?</title>
		<link>http://pundits.thehill.com/2008/05/16/is-john-mccain-bushs-poodle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 16:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Budowsky</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[John McCain is a much better man than the low-road campaign he pursues when the worst president in history, George W. Bush, launches a low-road attack on Barack Obama from abroad and John McCain is reduced to saying: Me too.
If Tony Blair was called Bush's poodle, John McCain now aspires to that mantle by giving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>His for the Taking</title>
		<link>http://pundits.thehill.com/2008/05/16/his-for-the-taking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 15:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.B. Stoddard</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Presidential Campaign</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 41-point whooping Hillary Clinton gave Barack Obama in West Virginia has clearly done little for her, particularly after Obama stole her show the next night with the John Edwards endorsement. But boy, is John McCain happy.
The win upon wins — often with a staggering 70 percent or more in rural areas — Clinton has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Rubenstein and Private Equity, Part II</title>
		<link>http://pundits.thehill.com/2008/05/16/david-rubenstein-and-private-equity-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 15:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Kemper</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Economy &amp; Budget</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During a recent Institute for Education/INFO forum, David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group, discussed both the economy and bananas — often in the same sentence. Rubenstein himself is quite humble and self-deprecating for a man on Forbes’s Top 400 Wealthiest People list, and much more sober than expected when diagnosing the economy.
Rubenstein first quoted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The War Inside America</title>
		<link>http://pundits.thehill.com/2008/05/16/the-war-inside-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 15:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Presidential Campaign</category>

		<category>Crime</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times had an interesting story on the front page today called “Immigration and Gang Violence Propel Crusade,” about the bubbling war between African-American gangs and Mexican gangs in Los Angeles. Apparently, members of the African-American community are asking the police to start checking on the immigration status of suspected Mexican gang members. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Goes for a Michigan and Florida-Proof Majority</title>
		<link>http://pundits.thehill.com/2008/05/16/obama-goes-for-a-michigan-and-florida-proof-majority/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick Morris</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Presidential Campaign</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For months, everyone who follows the Democratic presidential nominating contest has focused on 2,025 delegates, the total needed to win the nomination if you do not count the delegates from Florida or Michigan.
Now, in her West Virginia victory speech, Hillary is floating an alternative number — 2,209 — the number of votes to secure a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edwards Catches the Late Train</title>
		<link>http://pundits.thehill.com/2008/05/15/edwards-catches-the-late-train/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 20:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick Morris</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Presidential Campaign</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It took John Edwards four months to make up his mind to belatedly endorse Obama for president.
His backing, now, is really an effort to play catch-up and to avoid being consigned to irrelevance should Obama win the election. But the process that led Edwards to act is emblematic of that which will assure Obama of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Men Can Wait</title>
		<link>http://pundits.thehill.com/2008/05/15/black-men-can-wait/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 19:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armstrong Williams</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Presidential Campaign</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just one year ago, pundits like myself were speculating about how in the world Republicans would be able to cope with the racial subtexts that haunt them every presidential election cycle — that awkwardness of appealing to minority voters and visiting NAACP candidate forums, the mass exodus of Latinos from the party due to failed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Not-Quite-Ringing Endorsement</title>
		<link>http://pundits.thehill.com/2008/05/15/a-not-quite-ringing-endorsement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 19:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.B. Stoddard</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Presidential Campaign</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama's orchestration of an endorsement by John Edwards — timed to knock Hillary Clinton's interviews off of several network newscasts — was a political smackdown for the record books. Not only did it change the subject from his 41-point loss in West Virginia, but it said what it needed to: This is my party, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans Turn to Drugs</title>
		<link>http://pundits.thehill.com/2008/05/15/republicans-turn-to-drugs/</link>
		<comments>http://pundits.thehill.com/2008/05/15/republicans-turn-to-drugs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 18:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Press</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Lawmaker News</category>

		<category>Campaign</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Overshadowed by Hillary Clinton’s big win in West Virginia was a big victory for Democrats in Mississippi.
In Mississippi’s 1st congressional district, Democrat Travis Childers defeated Republican Greg Davis in a 62 percent Republican district that George W. Bush carried in 2004 with over 60 percent of the vote. And this transpired even though — or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Edwards and the Disappearing Hillary</title>
		<link>http://pundits.thehill.com/2008/05/15/obama-edwards-and-the-disappearing-hillary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 15:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Franken</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Presidential Campaign</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If we didn't realize it before, now we know that Barack Obama is a magician. Or at least, he knows how to pull a rabbit out of his hat.
The rabbit, of course, is John Edwards. Although I'm sure he won't appreciate the imagery, Edwards chose Wednesday as the day he hippity-hopped to Obama's side in [...]]]></description>
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