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		<title>Kudos to Garden State&#8217;s Big Fat Governor</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2010/02/12/kudos-to-garden-states-big-fat-governor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2010/02/12/kudos-to-garden-states-big-fat-governor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009 Elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Jersey&#8217;s Governor is doing to his state budget what the president should be doing to the federal government:   freezing spending.  And unlike the Democrat&#8217;s proposed freeze, the Republican is not waiting until he has increased funding to various pet programs he&#8217;s trimming spending right away: Calling New Jersey&#8217;s budget a &#8220;shambles,&#8221; Gov. Chris [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats Keep Special Interest Provisions in Health Care Legislation</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2010/02/04/democrats-keep-special-interest-provisions-in-health-care-legislation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2010/02/04/democrats-keep-special-interest-provisions-in-health-care-legislation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[111th Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2009 Elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even as Senate Democrats will be seating Scott Brown today, they still don&#8217;t seem to have learned much from his election.  With the American people upset not just about the content of the various health care bills, but also about the process of cobbling them together, Senate Democrats stand behind the product of their back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What New Jersey&#8217;s Big Fat Governor and Massachusetts&#8217; Studly New Senator Have in Common</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2010/01/20/what-new-jerseys-big-fat-governor-and-massachusetts-studly-new-senator-have-in-common/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2010/01/20/what-new-jerseys-big-fat-governor-and-massachusetts-studly-new-senator-have-in-common/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009 Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 Elections]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Focusing yesterday on the election of a Republican Senator in the Bay State, most of those of us who blog about politics all but ignored the inauguration of a Republican Governor in the Garden State.  And while many factors contributed to the victories of these two good men, it may well have been a bit [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Houston Elects Lesbian Mayor</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/12/13/houston-elects-lesbian-mayor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/12/13/houston-elects-lesbian-mayor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009 Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay America]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When the LA Times called Annise Parker, Houston&#8217;s Mayor-Elect &#8220;conservative,&#8221; I thought that maybe this lesbian is a Republican, but, alas, she is not.  In the Space City&#8217;s mayoral runoff yesterday, she &#8220;defeated former City Attorney Gene Locke on an austere platform, convincing voters that her financial bona fides and restrained promises would be best [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>Will Gay Marriage Activists Ever Stop Demonizing Their Adversaries?</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/12/when-will-gay-marriage-activists-stop-demonizing-their-adversaries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/12/when-will-gay-marriage-activists-stop-demonizing-their-adversaries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009 Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hysteria on the Left]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bruce just forwarded me a message he got from Twitter about gay activists setting up a &#8220;Bigot List&#8221; of donors to Question 1 in Maine, the successful ballot measure to &#8220;veto&#8221; a marriage law passed by the Pine Tree State&#8217;s elected legislature. Now, like those who publish this list, I opposed Question 1, but their [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>On gay marriage, civil unions and the 2009 elections</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/11/on-gay-marriage-civil-unions-and-the-2009-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/11/on-gay-marriage-civil-unions-and-the-2009-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009 Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As many of you may know that last Tuesday while voters in Maine rejected gay marriage, voters in Washington State approved domestic partnerships.  That &#8220;split decision&#8221; occasioned my latest column for Pajamas Media.  Here&#8217;s a taste: Largely lost amidst the hullabaloo of Republican gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia and a Conservative defeat in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>40</slash:comments>
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		<title>Peolosi Democrats: Where Ideology Trumps Democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/09/peolosi-democrats-where-ideology-trumps-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/09/peolosi-democrats-where-ideology-trumps-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[111th Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2009 Elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to figure out why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (likely following orders handed down from the White House) was so determined to hold a vote on a bill to increase government control over one-sixth of our economy the week after her party suffered its worst shellacking at the polls since President George W. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Democrats Dupe Gays to Help Corzine</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/06/democrats-dupe-gays-to-help-corzine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/06/democrats-dupe-gays-to-help-corzine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009 Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama and Gay Issues]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gaypatriot.net/?p=18868</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In trying to spin the results of this week&#8217;s elections to fit the Democratic/media narrative that Republicans are a dying species, Administration officials dwell on the results in NY-23 as if the White House were indifferent to the races in New Jersey and Virginia. And anyway, the Democratic candidate in New Jersey was an incumbent [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>How did a party beholden to conservative extremists manage to win so many elections in jurisdictions won by Obama just one year ago?</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/06/how-did-a-party-beholden-to-conservative-extremists-manage-to-win-so-many-elections-in-jurisdictions-won-by-obama-just-one-year-ago/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/06/how-did-a-party-beholden-to-conservative-extremists-manage-to-win-so-many-elections-in-jurisdictions-won-by-obama-just-one-year-ago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009 Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Rebuilding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Focusing on the campaign in New York&#8217;s 23rd Congressional District as if it were the only election conducted last week, leading Democrats from the White House on down tell us that the GOP is a divided party, beholden to its far right extremist fringe.  Well, those people peddling that partisan nonsense weren&#8217;t paying much attention [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why do Gay Leaders Have this Compulsion to Out their Adversaries?</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/05/why-do-gay-leaders-have-this-compulsion-to-out-their-adversaries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/05/why-do-gay-leaders-have-this-compulsion-to-out-their-adversaries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009 Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gaypatriot.net/?p=18840</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems gay leaders exist to make my point about their incompetence to appeal to those whose minds they most need to change.  Now, we learn that the leader of the No on 1 campaign in Maine, instead of learning from the campaign&#8217;s mistakes, intends to target those voters in the Pine Tree State: No [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>Maybe Doug Hoffman Should Have Better Attended to Local Issues</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/05/maybe-doug-hoffman-should-have-better-attended-to-local-issues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/05/maybe-doug-hoffman-should-have-better-attended-to-local-issues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[110th Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2009 Elections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[California politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gaypatriot.net/?p=18823</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Shortly after Bob Dornan lost his Orange County congressional seat by fewer than 1,000 votes (many of which turned out to be cast illegally), I was talking with a Republican political consultant who said that a number of his associates (in the political consultancy world) had warned the right-wing firebrand that he was in danger [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Did Gay Issues Help Sink Hoffman?</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/05/did-gay-issues-help-sink-hoffman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/05/did-gay-issues-help-sink-hoffman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009 Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Rebuilding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virginia Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gaypatriot.net/?p=18812</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Active in Virginia politics when living in Arlington in the 1990s, I reached a conclusion about most suburban &#8220;swing&#8221; voters, they are neither pro-gay nor anti-gay, but are rather anti-anti-gay, that is, they really don&#8217;t like candidates who make opposition to gay issues the centerpiece of their campaigns.  This applies even to voters who agree [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Obama Democrats&#8217; Real Dilemma:When the Rubber, er, Rhetoric Meets the Road</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/05/the-obama-democrats-real-dilemmawhen-the-rubber-er-rhetoric-meets-the-road/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/05/the-obama-democrats-real-dilemmawhen-the-rubber-er-rhetoric-meets-the-road/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009 Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gaypatriot.net/?p=18807</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Young people swarmed to the Obama bandwagon last year because of the Democrat&#8217;s hip campaign and powerful presence. Many had little idea what exactly their man stood for save the amorphous appeals to hope and change, but they sure liked the contrast between his image and that of then-the tongue-tied incumbent. Well, poring through the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>On Conservatives &amp; the GOP</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/05/on-conservatives-the-gop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/05/on-conservatives-the-gop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009 Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Rebuilding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Grover gets it: Conservatives cannot win without the Republican party and the Republican party cannot win without conservatives. Everything else is commentary.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reflections on the Impending Death of Obamacare</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/05/reflections-on-the-impending-death-of-obamacare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/05/reflections-on-the-impending-death-of-obamacare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[111th Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2009 Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obamacare]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gaypatriot.net/?p=18800</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If President Obama and congressional Democrats want to prevent more Democrats from suffering the fate next fall as outgoing New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, outgoing Westchester County Executive Andy Spano and various Democrats across the Commonwealth of Virginia did last night, they would do well to ditch health care as an issue and focus on legislation [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>2009 campaign takeaway:  negative ads not (always) effective</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/04/2009-campaign-takeaway-negative-ads-not-always-effective/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/04/2009-campaign-takeaway-negative-ads-not-always-effective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009 Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 Elections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mean-spirited leftists]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would-be Jon Corzines are quaking in their boots (and heels).  Having watched firsthand an unpopular Democratic Governor win reelection in the Golden State in 2002 by trashing his opponent, I thought the New Jersey Democrat&#8217;s nasty campaign might have worked. My opinion of Garden State voters improved dramatically last night.  They are not as numbed by [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Maine &amp; Washington Results Indicate New Gay Leadership Needed</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/04/new-gay-leadership-needed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/04/new-gay-leadership-needed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009 Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will wait to write a more comprehensive post on gay issues and the 2009 elections when we get final returns from Washington State where a measure to uphold the state&#8217;s Domestic Partnership program currently clings to a narrow lead.  If that margin holds, the Evergreen State will be the first state where voters ratified [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Barone:  the &#8216;burbs are back for the GOP</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/04/barone-the-burbs-are-back-for-the-gop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/04/barone-the-burbs-are-back-for-the-gop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009 Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Government Follies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gaypatriot.net/?p=18763</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night, on FoxNews Michael Barone delivered his interpretation of the election results.  Unlike other big name pundits, he looked beyond the big races and found some significant trends in the contests to which others weren&#8217;t paying much attention. After that sage political prognosticator he pointed out that the Republican won a resounding victory in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Maine Voters Reject Gay Marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/04/maine-voters-reject-gay-marriage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/04/maine-voters-reject-gay-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009 Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Given that the elected legislature had passed and the elected Governor had signed the law in Maine recognizing same-sex marriage, I had expected the dynamics of the race to be a little different in the Pine Tree State.  But, the result is nearly identical to that in the Golden State just one year ago.  With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Doug Hoffman lost</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/04/why-doug-hoffman-lost/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/04/why-doug-hoffman-lost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009 Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Bias]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In New Jersey, &#8220;union brass knuckles were not enough to carry&#8221; New Jersey&#8217;s Democratic Governor &#8220;over the finish line,&#8221; but union support likely made the difference in Bill Owens narrow victory in New York&#8217;s 23rd congressional district.  Earlier today (Tuesday), when I heard on the news that with Dede Scozzafava&#8217;s endorsement meant of the Democrat [...]]]></description>
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