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	<description>He's right about Texas politics. And also left.</description>
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		<title>The Hopson switch</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am tempted to use the worn-out image of the canary in the coal mine, but this is more like a vulture pecking at roadkill. The Democrats now find themselves looking up at a 72-78 deficit in the House. The retirement of David Farabee and the party switch by Chuck Hobson have wiped out, without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defending the UT/Tribune poll’s methodology</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Texas Tribune&#8217;s web site has a lengthy (26 pages, many of which involve a lot of funny looking symbols and squiggly lines and tiny letters that aren&#8217;t parts of words of just the sort that caused me, after my freshman year at Rice, to change my major from math to history) explanation of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perry: I’m more conservative than she is … no you’re not</title>
		<link>http://www.texasmonthly.com/blogs/burkablog/?p=5232</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulburka</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dick cheney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kay bailey hutchison]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Morning News&#8217; Trailblazer blog reported Wednesday that Rick Perry had said at a news conference in Dallas that he was a stronger conservative than his gubernatorial opponent. This was fodder for Republican primary voters, but I think it had another purpose. It was a baited hook designed to draw Hutchison into a fight on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The most accurate polls, 09 governor’s races</title>
		<link>http://www.texasmonthly.com/blogs/burkablog/?p=5220</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulburka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democratic pollster/blogger Mark Blumenthal, writing today in politicalwire.com, calculated which polling firms had the most accurate record in calling the two governor&#8217;s races. The clear winner was SurveyUSA, which uses automated polling. SurveyUSA nailed the margin in Virginia (18 points) and tied Rasmussen (another automated pollster) for coming closest to calling Christie&#8217;s four-point victory in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What really happened in NY 23</title>
		<link>http://www.texasmonthly.com/blogs/burkablog/?p=5215</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulburka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mayor of Watertown, New York, one Jeff Graham, is a blogger, and this is his report on the District 23 race. Graham endorsed Hoffman. The blog has a sad ending as he contemplates his community&#8217;s loss of a seat that had been occupied by a local Republican. 
Plattsburgh attorney William Owens will represent NNY [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National election results: Are independents really Republicans?</title>
		<link>http://www.texasmonthly.com/blogs/burkablog/?p=5205</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulburka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNN&#8217;s exit polls say that independents were the deciding factor in the two big governor&#8217;s races, in New Jersey and Virginia. From the network&#8217;s web site:
In Virginia, where 30 percent of voters identify themselves as independent, 65 percent cast their ballots for CNN&#8217;s projected winner, Republican Bob McDonnell. That&#8217;s according to early CNN Exit Poll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recommended Reading: Texas vs. California</title>
		<link>http://www.texasmonthly.com/blogs/burkablog/?p=5201</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulburka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following article was e-mailed to me by a friend, a Plainview native and fellow Rice graduate who lives in California and, as far as I can tell, spends his nonworking time culling obscure publications for interesting articles and e-mailing them to his friends. This one, which compares California and Texas, appeared in City Journal. [...]]]></description>
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