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		<title>Romney’s Gaffe About the ‘Very Poor’ Shows Him Courting the Middle Class &#8211; The Daily Beast</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if to prove the point that this nomination race is far from over, Mitt Romney took to the airwaves Wednesday morning and promptly stepped on his lip. The occasion was a post-Florida victory lap interview with CNN’s Soledad O’Brien. Romney was trying to relay a general-election message about how his campaign would be focused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Despite Mitt Romney’s Big Florida Win, the GOP Race Is Not Over &#8211; The Daily Beast</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, Mitt Romney had a big win in Florida last night. He’s won two of the first four primary states, totaling 84 delegates to date. But he needs 1,144 to clinch the Republican nomination—he’s just 7 percent of the way there. So call off the coronation—give people in the other 46 states a chance to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romney Ramps Up Attack Ads Against Gingrich to Unprecedented Levels &#8211; The Daily Beast</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Avlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, it’s not your imagination. Things are uglier than ever in the Sunshine State. A staggering 92 percent of the political ads run in Florida over the last week of the campaign have been negative. “For as long as I’ve been in politics, 14 years, journalists call me and ask if this is the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newt&#8217;s Secret Florida Weapon: Marco Rubio&#8217;s 2010 Campaign Manager &#8211; The Daily Beast</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Avlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Florida primary has become a battle between money and momentum. Polls now show a virtual tie as Mitt Romney has plummeted 25 points in the state in the last week following Newt Gingrich&#8217;s decisive win in South Carolina. Romney has an edge in establishment organization and a big bankroll to blanket the Sunshine State [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 Worthy Policy Ideas From Obama’s 2012 State of the Union Speech &#8211; The Daily Beast</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Avlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama’s election year State of the Union address was attacked in pre-buttals from the Republican presidential candidates and members of Congress alike. But there were thoughtful moments and policies with bipartisan potential that deserve attention beyond the predicable partisan spin. Yes, there were plenty of contentious election-year policy contrasts—especially a minimum tax on people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religious-Right Leaders Say Santorum, But Voters Flock to Gingrich &#8211; The Daily Beast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Avlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just last week, Rick Santorum received a much-vaunted endorsement representing the collective wisdom of more than 100 conservative evangelical leaders ranging from Tony Perkins to James Dobson to Gary Bauer. Where their benediction fell, their flocks were sure to go—or that was the idea. But despite a second round of social-conservative support for Santorum in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Rick Santorum Win the Iowa Caucuses, Not Mitt Romney? &#8211; The Daily Beast</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That’s what it looks like if numbers from a caucus in the town of Moulton, Appanoose County, are correctly counted when the official certification begins Wednesday night. This not only would rewrite the election history of 2012 to date—it would invalidate the oft-repeated line that Mitt Romney is the only candidate to win both Iowa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The MLK Whitewash &#8211; The Daily Beast</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day finds our nation rightly united in honoring the man who challenged America to live up to the promise that all men are created equal. But it’s also worth remembering that it was not always this way. King was widely reviled in his lifetime, attacked as a troublemaker, a liar, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evangelicals at the Crossroads in South Carolina &#8211; The Daily Beast</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Mormons, two Catholics, and two Protestants walk into a South Carolina church asking for votes. No, it’s not a bad joke—it’s the current state of play in the pivotal South Carolina Republican primary. It’s an unprecedented situation and a positive sign of how far we have come as a nation. In 1928, when Democrats [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romney Ready for Prime Time After New Hampshire Primary &#8211; The Daily Beast</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney scored a strong victory Tuesday night in New Hampshire, just exceeding John McCain’s 2008 vote total of 37 percent and beating third-place finisher Jon Huntsman by 20 points. The Romney camp has reason to feel confident as their candidate pivoted to what amounted to a general-election speech in front of an adoring audience [...]]]></description>
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