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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. resetting its relationship with Karzai ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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When a team of senior U.S. officials led by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the presidential palace in Kabul on Wednesday for a dinner meeting, they had little indication of what Afghan President Hamid Karzai planned to discuss, or whether questions about corruption and governance...
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			<title><![CDATA[ To survive, the GOP needs a good in-house fight ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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She has a strong point -- GOP primaries are the best way to test leaders and ideas.
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			<dc:creator>David S. Broder</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Book Review: 'The Battle for America' by Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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"The Battle for America" boldly asserts its own importance in its title, and unlike many such pronouncements, it largely delivers. Through a judicious blend of facts, anecdotes, close-ups and wide-angle shots, it retells the story of the rise of a politician who was by no means foreordained to win the presidency, but is now so ubiquitous that he has nearly trademarked the letter O.
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			<dc:creator>Ted Widmer</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ As GOP celebrates victories, ideological battles between moderates and conservatives remain ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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A rebounding Republican Party is savoring victories in two states that President Obama won last year, but as it tries to build momentum toward what GOP Chairman Michael S. Steele called a "Republican renaissance," it faces troubling ideological fissures within its ranks over how best to reclaim p...
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			<title><![CDATA[ In New Jersey, Christie beats incumbent Corzine in governor's race ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. --  Chris Christie defeated Democratic Gov. Jon S. Corzine on Tuesday, handing Republicans a rare victory in a state that Barack Obama carried last year by 15 percentage points.
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			<dc:creator>Karl Vick</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Afghan election commission declares Karzai winner ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:09:01 EST</pubDate>
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KABUL -- Election officials declared Afghan President Hamid Karzai the winner of a new five-year term Monday, canceling a runoff election scheduled for Saturday just one day after Karzai's sole challenger quit the race. The decision ended weeks of political drift since a first presidential poll i...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Some states weigh earlier primaries in 2010 to accommodate Americans abroad ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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ST. PAUL, MINN. --  A new law meant to protect the voting rights of deployed troops and other Americans overseas is forcing at least a dozen states to consider holding their primaries earlier or to negotiate another plan that federal officials will accept.
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Take: Squabbles among Democrats on health care and Republicans in House race ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Is politics about standing for principles and fighting for them? Or is politics about winning elections and passing legislation?
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Fix: Harry Reid's Early Gamble ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) took to the Nevada airwaves late last week with ads designed to reintroduce himself to voters more than a year before a single ballot will be cast.
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