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	<title>The Reality-Based Community &#187; Barack Obama</title>
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		<title>The 2012 Democratic platform</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/02/barack-obama/the-2012-democratic-platform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/02/barack-obama/the-2012-democratic-platform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wimberley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections 2010 and 2012]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Time to start a discussion on it.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>If Only President Obama Would Do Something About The Prison Population</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/crime-control/if-only-president-obama-would-do-something-about-the-prison-population/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/crime-control/if-only-president-obama-would-do-something-about-the-prison-population/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prisons and penal policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adam gopnik]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Adam Gopnik&#8217;s moral outrage about the shameful level of incarceration in the U.S. is right on target. However, the analysis in his New Yorker article is weak in multiple places, most notably in missing the biggest story going in incarceration these days. At the time President Obama was elected, the incarcerated population in the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Barack Hussein Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/politics-and-leadership/barack-hussein-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/politics-and-leadership/barack-hussein-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clash of Civilizations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ground Zero Mosque]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This video  is the most elegant iteration I&#8217;ve seen of the dialogue on the left about the President.  What&#8217;s so amazing about &#8220;Barack Hussein Obama,&#8221; written and directed by Jamil Khoury, is that both sides are treated with respect.  And what a shame that should be amazing! Khoury is Artistic Director of the Chicago theater [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>What if Obama Loses?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/barack-obama/what-if-obama-loses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/barack-obama/what-if-obama-loses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections 2010 and 2012]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush both ran on a platform of reducing the size and scope of government, yet federal spending &#8212; including social welfare spending &#8212; grew substantially during their presidencies. Cognizant of those historical examples, some political observers scoff at the notion that a Republican Presidential victory in 2012 will change very [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>My Fearless Prediction Comes True</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/barack-obama/my-fearless-prediction-comes-true/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/barack-obama/my-fearless-prediction-comes-true/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections 2010 and 2012]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Benen at Washington Monthly, writing about the GOP caucus winner at midnight last night Tonight’s big winner is obvious: his name is Barack Obama. Woo-hoo! Remember ladies and gentlemen, you heard it here first.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Made in America</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/politics-and-leadership/made-in-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/politics-and-leadership/made-in-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 03:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harold Pollack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Leadership]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=25919</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes humor is the best way to make a serious point. It&#8217;s sad that this is one such case.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Black and White Perspectives on Obama: A Tale of Two Comment Threads</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/barack-obama/black-and-white-perspectives-on-obama-a-tale-of-two-comment-threads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/barack-obama/black-and-white-perspectives-on-obama-a-tale-of-two-comment-threads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My post about &#8220;African-American Liberals Know How to Love Their President&#8221; drew many comments here at RBC, and also at Washington Monthly, where it was cross-posted. Strikingly, while most RBC readers are almost certainly white, most people who posted comments on the Washington Monthly website self-identified as African-American. If you followed this post and this [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>40</slash:comments>
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		<title>African-American Liberals Know How to Love Their President</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/race-related-isms/african-american-liberals-know-how-to-love-their-president/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/race-related-isms/african-american-liberals-know-how-to-love-their-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections 2010 and 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race & related -isms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Chait]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=25384</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Chait&#8217;s much-discussed essay in New York magazine indicted the left for being perennially, loudly and unrealistically disappointed in Democratic Presidents. In Chait&#8217;s view, much of the left ignores the constraints on Presidential power (e.g., Congress, of which Drew Westen et al seem to be in ignorance) and doesn&#8217;t have the stomach or attention span [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>Against inequality</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/barack-obama/against-inequality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/barack-obama/against-inequality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Income distribution]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=25370</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama lays down his marker on the most pressing issue of our times.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>53</slash:comments>
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		<title>Playing it Cool on the 8.6% Unemployment Rate</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/barack-obama/playing-it-cool-on-the-8-6-unemployment-rate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/barack-obama/playing-it-cool-on-the-8-6-unemployment-rate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections 2010 and 2012]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=25295</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been hard on the White House communications team before, but I give them props now for giving exactly the right amount and type of emphasis to the latest employment report. Having CEA Chairman Alan Krueger make modestly positive comments on the White House blog supplemented by a few guardedly optimistic words by the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>A flash of the truth</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/barack-obama/a-flash-of-the-truth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/barack-obama/a-flash-of-the-truth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gingrich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-discipline]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer on Newt Gingrich:

Gingrich has a self-regard so immense that it rivals Obama’s — but, unlike Obama’s, is untamed by self-discipline]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Unpatriotic Mitt:  &#8220;America&#8217;s just another nation with a flag&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/barack-obama/unpatriotic-mitt-americas-just-another-nation-with-a-flag/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/barack-obama/unpatriotic-mitt-americas-just-another-nation-with-a-flag/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 04:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=25026</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In exactly the same sense that Barack Obama said "If we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose."]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>What the White House Communications Team Could Learn from the Auto Industry</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/barack-obama/what-the-white-house-communications-team-could-learn-from-the-auto-industry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/barack-obama/what-the-white-house-communications-team-could-learn-from-the-auto-industry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=24447</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I never received any direct mail advertisements or email from Toyota until 1996, which is the year I bought the Camry that I still drive today. In the ensuing months, I received newsletters describing all the great things Toyota was doing, handy tips on how to use the features on my car, discounted offers for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Country Wants a Republican President in General, but Not in Particular</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/barack-obama/the-country-wants-a-republican-president-in-general-but-not-in-particular/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/barack-obama/the-country-wants-a-republican-president-in-general-but-not-in-particular/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections 2010 and 2012]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=24406</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I once won $100 on a political sucker bet. During the early part of the 1996 election cycle, before the Republican nominee had been selected, a fellow I know said that Clinton&#8217;s approval ratings were so low that his defeat was certain. This guy rashly offered 5:1 odds to anyone who believed Clinton would win; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Obama Team is Smart</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/10/climate-change/the-obama-team-is-smart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/10/climate-change/the-obama-team-is-smart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 04:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew E. Kahn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate change]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=24267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to my friends on Facebook, I was pointed to this new White House report on federal actions to help us adapt to climate change.   The report provides some nice case studies and I think it is very well done.  It doesn&#8217;t try to provide any &#8220;hard numbers&#8221; on the cost of adaptation or whether these [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Obamas Should Campaign as a Couple</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/10/barack-obama/the-obamas-should-campaign-as-a-couple/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/10/barack-obama/the-obamas-should-campaign-as-a-couple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections 2010 and 2012]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=24021</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an old saw among political consultants that the perfect politician&#8217;s wife waves warmly to the crowd of potential voters&#8230;as her boat drifts away on a long trip down the Amazon that lasts until the election is over. This perspective is embodied in the common campaign strategy of sending political wives to lower stakes [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bringing a copy of Dale Carnegie to a game of chicken?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/10/politics-and-leadership/bringing-a-copy-of-dale-carnegie-to-a-game-of-chicken/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/10/politics-and-leadership/bringing-a-copy-of-dale-carnegie-to-a-game-of-chicken/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Sabl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Leadership]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=23875</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is the President bringing a copy of Dale Carnegie to a game of chicken?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>No, African-Americans Will Not Vote for Herman Cain</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/10/barack-obama/no-african-americans-will-not-vote-for-herman-cain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/10/barack-obama/no-african-americans-will-not-vote-for-herman-cain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections 2010 and 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[herman cain]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=23718</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Herman Cain thinks he can draw 1 in 3 African-American voters, which some media outlets are reporting as if it were a remotely sensible statement. The President&#8217;s prior experience running against a different never-before-elected outspoken Black Republican preacher and radio host is instructive (or at least ought to be): Black voters in Illinois went for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>Misleading Predictions About Why Obama &#8220;Can&#8217;t Win&#8221; in 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/09/barack-obama/misleading-predictions-about-why-obama-cant-win-in-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/09/barack-obama/misleading-predictions-about-why-obama-cant-win-in-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections 2010 and 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In another edition of how misunderstanding statistics can lead to misleading political predictions, let&#8217;s talk about base rates, predictive power and presidential re-election. In psychiatry, there is a fun logical problem in which students are asked to generate an instrument that will accurately classify people with and without schizophrenia in a sample of the population. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>47</slash:comments>
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		<title>Scandal!</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/09/watching-conservatives/23201/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/09/watching-conservatives/23201/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lying in politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watching Conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cover-up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[founder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gaffe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lincoln]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=23201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["PBS alters transcript to hide Obama gaffe." 
Only there was no alteration, and no gaffe.
And no retraction from any of the Red bloggers who spread the misinformation, even after it was corrected.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>Attack.</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/09/barack-obama/attack/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/09/barack-obama/attack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Campaign 2012]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=23192</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As Mark noted the other day, the President gave an excellent jobs speech.  He then followed it up with a nice rally in Eric Cantor&#8217;s Virginia district.  Today, he sent the America Jobs Act to Congress.  (For what it&#8217;s worth, I have already received about nine e-mails from OFA and pro-Obama organizations pitching the bill). [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;Infrastructure: The Play&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/09/democrats-in-congress/infrastructure-the-play/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/09/democrats-in-congress/infrastructure-the-play/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Frank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2011 Democratic Agenda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Campaign 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats in Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=23079</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier post, I noted with approval the comments of Jonathan Chait, Keith Humphreys, and others who have been critical of Drew Westen&#8217;s claim that if President Obama had been more forceful in his use of narrative, he could have enacted a much greater proportion of the progressive agenda.  But I went on to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Barack Obama, Democrat</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/09/barack-obama/barack-obama-democrat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/09/barack-obama/barack-obama-democrat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Campaign 2012]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=23070</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The opening salvo of the 2012 campaign was just fired. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>63</slash:comments>
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		<title>New Uses for Obama T-Shirts!</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/09/energy-and-environment/new-uses-for-obama-t-shirts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/09/energy-and-environment/new-uses-for-obama-t-shirts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 04:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy and Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lese-Majeste]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=22978</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So over this past weekend I&#8217;ve had something of a cold: lots of sneezing, runny nose, the works.  I could have gone through several boxes of tissues, but then I came upon an old &#8220;Environmentalists for Obama&#8221; t-shirt that I bought during the 2008 campaign.  It worked great!  I&#8217;ll make sure to tell everyone else who [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;Scheduling clash&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/09/barack-obama/scheduling-clash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/09/barack-obama/scheduling-clash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 12:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wimberley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=22915</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Republican disrespect and African-American voters.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stimulus, Jobs and Reasonable Expectations of President Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/09/barack-obama/stimulus-jobs-and-reasonable-expectations-of-president-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/09/barack-obama/stimulus-jobs-and-reasonable-expectations-of-president-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 00:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=22878</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not the only person who feels that some (most definitely not all) people on the left are holding the President to unrealistic standards. Here are three columnists writing about the original stimulus bill and the impending jobs speech. Jonathan Chait in New York Times today on why he thinks Obama is getting a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>John Conyers Loves Obamacare.  Why Do Some of His Fellow Liberals Hate the President Who Made it Happen?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/barack-obama/john-conyers-loves-obamacare-why-do-some-of-his-fellow-liberals-hate-the-president-who-made-it-happen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/barack-obama/john-conyers-loves-obamacare-why-do-some-of-his-fellow-liberals-hate-the-president-who-made-it-happen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections 2010 and 2012]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=22749</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Representative Conyers supports single payer health care, but has embraced “Obamacare” as a major triumph for the President and his party. He is right to do so. A massive expansion of access to health care has been the dream of progressives for decades, and after 40 years and many failed efforts it has now come [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>35</slash:comments>
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		<title>New Model, Old Coalition</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/politics-and-leadership/new-model-old-coalition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/politics-and-leadership/new-model-old-coalition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Sabl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Campaigns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Leadership]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=22729</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fervent Obama supporters face a basic problem that we've yet to come to terms with: we were fervent about different things. We were a standard political coalition that was fooled into thinking ourselves a movement.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>37</slash:comments>
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		<title>Jonathan Alter Tells the Whiny Left to Stand by Their Man</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/barack-obama/jonathan-alter-tells-the-whiny-left-to-stand-by-their-man/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/barack-obama/jonathan-alter-tells-the-whiny-left-to-stand-by-their-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections 2010 and 2012]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=22639</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Alter mounts a defense of the President that is ostensibly a challenge to all Obama&#8217;s critics but is primarily directed at the whiny, entitled left. The comments section suggests that he is laying out what many people who support the President have been thinking, but have been intimidated into not saying by the brie [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
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		<title>Signs of Intelligent Life From the Electorate</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/barack-obama/signs-of-intelligent-life-from-the-electorate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/barack-obama/signs-of-intelligent-life-from-the-electorate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Campaign 2012]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=22255</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark is the resident RBC optimist, and he points with pride to poll results showing President Obama leading &#8220;Generic Republican&#8221; by six points.  That is genuinely good news, since &#8220;generic Republican,&#8221; like &#8220;generic Democrat&#8221; is usually its party&#8217;s strongest contestant. I am resident RBC Eeyore, and so my morning started off badly when, for the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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