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		<title>The Magical Mitt-ery Tour: The Return of the Romneys &#8211; The Daily Beast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Avlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Romney Revival Tour is under way. After a winter’s shame-cation at their beachfront La Jolla, California, estate—replete with reports of crying jags and aimless days—Mitt and Ann are reaching back out to the American public with a Chris Wallace &#8230; <a href="http://johnavlon.com/published_work/the-daily-beast/the-magical-mitt-ery-tour-the-return-of-the-romneys-the-daily-beast-4134">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Can Barack Obama Break The Second Inaugural Curse? &#8211; The Daily Beast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Avlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quick – name your favorite line from an inaugural address. “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” “Government is not &#8230; <a href="http://johnavlon.com/my_column/obama/can-barack-obama-break-the-second-inaugural-curse-the-daily-beast-3997">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Republican Politicians Must Stop Pandering to Conservative Populism &#8211; The Daily Beast</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 20:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Avlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republicans need to “stop being the Stupid Party.” That was a blunt postelection declaration of independence by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. “We’ve also had enough of this dumbed-down conservatism,” continued Jindal. “We need to stop being simplistic, we need to &#8230; <a href="http://johnavlon.com/my_column/republican-reformers/republican-politicians-must-stop-pandering-to-conservative-populism-the-daily-beast-3801">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Final Insult: Mitt Romney’s Clueless Gift Gaffe &#8211; The Daily Beast</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Avlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney made his final newsworthy post-election pronouncement, explaining to a conference call of big-dollar donors that he had fallen short because President Barack Obama had bribed liberal special interests with expensive gifts. Here’s what he said, according to The &#8230; <a href="http://johnavlon.com/published_work/the-daily-beast/the-final-insult-mitt-romneys-clueless-gift-gaffe-the-daily-beast-3777">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Partisan Journalists Are Following the Money All Too Literally &#8211; The Daily Beast</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Avlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sifting through the wreckage of the 2012 election, conservatives are realizing the price of staying inside their cocoon. The unskewed polls, the partisan cheerleading and complaints about the MSM’s liberal bias, the rigid think-tank reinforcement—it all led the right into &#8230; <a href="http://johnavlon.com/published_work/the-daily-beast/partisan-journalists-are-following-the-money-all-too-literally-the-daily-beast-3767">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Election a Call for Purple Politics &#8211; CNN.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Avlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the horse race coverage of political campaigns, we sometimes forget that elections are just exciting preambles to the main event &#8212; governing. Now&#8217;s the time when the parties return to Washington and try to implement the people&#8217;s wishes as &#8230; <a href="http://johnavlon.com/my_column/election-a-call-for-purple-politics-cnn-com-3774">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>They Failed to &#8216;Buy&#8217; the US Election in 2012: Will Conservative Donors Ever Open Their Wallets Again? &#8211; The Telegraph</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2012 23:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Avlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An unprecedented amount of money was spent in the 2012 election — some $6 billion in total. But the real slumbering scandal was how much of that was an infusion of cash from Super PACs – supposedly independent “political action &#8230; <a href="http://johnavlon.com/published_work/they-failed-to-buy-the-us-election-in-2012-will-conservative-donors-ever-open-their-wallets-again-the-telegraph-3762">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama’s Strong Support Among Cuban Americans Underlines Demographic Shift &#8211; The Daily Beast</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Avlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The depth, if not dimensions, of President Obama’s reelection victory is slowly resonating, even in Republican circles. After all the partisan spinning, it is clear that the combination of the Obama campaign’s ground game and demographic evolutions in our nation &#8230; <a href="http://johnavlon.com/my_column/obama/obamas-strong-support-among-cuban-americans-underlines-demographic-shift-the-daily-beast-3758">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Twilight Zone &#8211; Newsweek &#8211; The Daily Beast</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 22:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Partisan politics is starting to look like a cult, and after this presidential election, Republicans will need some serious deprogramming. The overheated anti-Obama echo chamber on the far right led to a fact-free fanaticism, inspiring otherwise educated folks to ignore &#8230; <a href="http://johnavlon.com/published_work/the-daily-beast/welcome-to-the-twilight-zone-newsweek-the-daily-beast-3760">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Battleground Blog: How the Swing Counties Swung &#8211; CNN.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 05:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last two months of the campaign, CNN focused on the swing districts of swing states as a way of looking at who would win the election. From Jefferson County Colorado and Loudon County Virginia on CNN&#8217;s OutFront&#8217;s Final &#8230; <a href="http://johnavlon.com/my_column/obama/battleground-blog-how-the-swing-counties-swung-cnn-com-3755">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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