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            <title><![CDATA[How Palin Helps Bloomberg]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Wasilla's finest may be dominating the headlines today. But by 2012, the country may be sick of base politics and ready for an independent. Mark McKinnon makes the case for Mike Bloomberg in 2012. 
If Sarah Palin dominates Republican politics for the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Huckabee's Power Surge]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The 2008 also-ran is suddenly the hottest Republican in the 2012 presidential field. Bush adviser Mark McKinnon, who's chronicling the race for The Daily Beast, talks with Mike Huckabee's top strategist.
Mike Huckabee is the dark horse no longer.  In...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The GOP Surge Isn't Obama's Fault]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The president suffered a bruising at the polls Tuesday. Bush strategist Mark McKinnon on how he lost his magic-and why he's not really to blame.
The post-presidential election correction has officially kicked in. Barack Obama cannot translate his...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[10 Worst Political Scandals]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Alan Grayson called a Fed lobbyist a shocking slur-the latest outrage in a year packed with sex and wackos. Mark McKinnon savors Sanford's steamy emails, Bachmann's battiness and more.
2009 isn't even over yet, but has already gone down as an epic...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's George Bush Problem]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Obama ran for president on a pledge to change the tone in Washington. The right's reaction to the Olympic setback proves he's failed-just like Bush before him.
Civility really may be dead.
I was not surprised that Chicago did not get the Olympics. I...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:28:18 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's G-20 Trade War]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[China's president decried protectionism at the world leaders' summit-taking a shot at the U.S. Mark McKinnon on the Obama sop to big labor that's launched a costly battle with Beijing.
It's pretty embarrassing when a Chinese president lectures an...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Karl Rove Redux]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Of course the White House is stepping into the New York governor's race and other key contests around the country. That's what presidents who want to win do. 
A president getting involved in state political races?&nbsp; Shocking.
Actually, the only...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:34:03 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Send Joe Wilson Home]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Former Bush and McCain strategist Mark McKinnon wants the congressman who shouted at Obama out of office and out of his party-and he's donating $1,000 to his opponent.
Make Joe Wilson pay.
And by pay, I mean beat his sorry ass at the polls and send...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scarborough for President]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Fall brings some dark horses into Mark McKinnon's 2012 GOP contender rankings, including a general (Petraeus), a whack job (Bachmann) and a congressman-turned-TV host: Joe Scarborough.
The lower President Barack Obama's approval ratings drop, the...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:26:51 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Flunk the Far Right]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ President Obama's inspirational back-to-school message to students today is getting eviscerated by critics as a conspiracy to indoctrinate the nation's children. When the president can't tell students to stay in school without causing an uproar, we've...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Where's the Outrage?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The hubris of public officials like John Ensign and Mark Sanford isn't even shocking anymore. Former Bush and McCain strategist Mark McKinnon proposes Ten Commandments for politicians.
"I did nothing legally wrong."
Now there's a hell of a...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:01:55 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Santorum Is Dangerous]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  In the sixth in a series of posts on the 2012 landscape, former Bush and McCain strategist Mark McKinnon says that despite former Senator Rick Santorum's actions and extreme ideology, he and his foray into Iowa should be taken seriously.
A Rick...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:05:44 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Time to Thank Obama...and Bush]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Critics are taking aim at the president, but Mark McKinnon says with job losses slowing and recovery appearing imminent, it's time to give Obama-and, yes, his predecessor-credit for saving us from oblivion.
A lot of people refuse to believe it or even...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:19:20 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Last Word on the Beer Summit]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Former Bush and McCain strategist Mark McKinnon says Obama's smart calculation recalls a surprising focus group finding from 2000: Voters just want to have a beer with their president.
One final short word on the beer summit.
I have nothing to add...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:10:27 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[So What If Obama Was Foreign?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Not a shred of evidence supports the citizenship conspiracy theorists, says former Bush and McCain strategist Mark McKinnon-but even if there were, there's no story more American than Obama's.
It is astounding what people will believe simply because...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:57:53 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Music]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Lee Ann Womack is a country music throwback to the days when they served it up straight and strong, no pop filling. On her new CD, Call Me Crazy, Womack serves up a full menu of gut wrenching classics. Impossible not to get chills when she sings: "I...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Product/Service]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I'm a freak for traveling light. Haven't checked a bag in years. Since I'm always looking to lighten the load, I finally broke down and bought a MacBook Air laptop, the world's thinnest notebook. My IT guys had warned me off saying it was fragile and...]]></description>
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