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		<title>Guest essay: GOP Politics and the &#8220;Little Woman&#8221; in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stephenklien]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Political Denizens are pleased to present our first guest essay! In the wake of the 2012 party conventions, public discussions of the potential &#8220;candidates&#8221; for First Lady &#8212; Ann Romney and Michelle Obama &#8212; has featured their functions as a humanizing element for their husbands and their rhetorical emphasis on &#8220;family&#8221; as a warrant [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A post-factual convention? Part 2: Reality? We can change it.</title>
		<link>http://www.augustana.net/blogs/politicaldenizens/index.php/2012/09/03/a-post-factual-convention-part-2-reality-we-can-change-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 03:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stephenklien]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a satirical debriefing of Paul Ryan&#8217;s nomination acceptance address on The Daily Show, &#8220;RNC correspondent&#8221; John Oliver considers the theme of the Republican National Convention&#8217;s second night, &#8220;We Can Change It.&#8221; A slogan clearly designed as a commonplace strategic appeal in the &#8220;challenger style&#8221; of campaign rhetoric &#8212; the challenger calls for change, and argues that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A post-factual convention? Part 1: They built that.</title>
		<link>http://www.augustana.net/blogs/politicaldenizens/index.php/2012/09/02/a-post-factual-convention-part-1-they-built-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 04:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stephenklien]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.augustana.edu/blogs/politicaldenizens/?p=515</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ As has been the case for many years, Mitt Romney&#8217;s presidential campaign produced a biographical film to introduce the candidate to the American public, who traditionally start paying attention in earnest to general election campaigns right around Labor Day. The video was a dramatically produced and emotionally moving portrait of a candidate who sought that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Our long national nightmare is over&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.augustana.net/blogs/politicaldenizens/index.php/2012/09/01/our-long-national-nightmare-is-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 15:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stephenklien]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.augustana.edu/blogs/politicaldenizens/?p=510</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We know what you&#8217;re thinking&#8230; &#8220;OK, the presidential campaign is in full swing, Paul Ryan is the Republican Veep nominee, the GOP convention has concluded and the Democratic convention is days away, the economic recovery is still slow and painful (with everyone blaming everybody else), the media fact-checkers and cable news commentators are having conniption [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Pub Politics and the Presidency</title>
		<link>http://www.augustana.net/blogs/politicaldenizens/index.php/2012/03/18/pub-politics-and-the-presidency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 07:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stephenklien]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.augustana.edu/blogs/politicaldenizens/?p=483</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the White House website, President Obama had &#8220;no public schedule&#8221; yesterday. However, this didn&#8217;t stop the President from making a high-profile St. Patrick&#8217;s Day visit to a public establishment &#8212; specifically, the Dubliner Restaurant and Pub, a bar in Washington featuring basketball on TV and Guinness on tap. Joined by his distant Irish [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Why did Obama win the Michigan primary?</title>
		<link>http://www.augustana.net/blogs/politicaldenizens/index.php/2012/02/29/why-did-obama-win-the-michigan-primary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stephenklien]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what do we make of last night&#8217;s primaries in Michigan and Arizona? As in most things political, the &#8220;win&#8221; is in the eye of the beholder&#8230; and what we&#8217;re beholding is media framing and campaign spinning. As I was reading news about the races this morning, a Facebook post from my old fraternity brother Jeff Moulton [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>When &#8220;Deal&#8221; is a Four-Letter Word</title>
		<link>http://www.augustana.net/blogs/politicaldenizens/index.php/2012/02/24/when-deal-is-a-four-letter-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the perennial realities of campaign politics is the inevitable trajectory candidates take when moving from obscure also-ran to emergent underdog to front-runner: the higher the profile, the greater the scrutiny, and the added importance of &#8220;oppo&#8221; research. Many media observers have noted, in the wake of Wednesday&#8217;s Republican presidential primary debate in Arizona, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Contests Are More &#8220;Nonbinding&#8221; Than Others</title>
		<link>http://www.augustana.net/blogs/politicaldenizens/index.php/2012/02/08/some-contests-are-more-nonbinding-than-others/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stephenklien]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rick Santorum had a great night last night &#8212; he went three for three in primary and caucus contests, beating Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich handily and gaining a deluge of free media attention. Observers of these events are likely already clear on a few key points: Newt Gingrich wasn&#8217;t even on the ballot in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Since When is Clint Eastwood a Democrat?</title>
		<link>http://www.augustana.net/blogs/politicaldenizens/index.php/2012/02/07/since-when-is-clint-eastwood-a-democrat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stephenklien]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And since when did Chrysler get in the candidate endorsement business? Actually, neither supposition is accurate&#8230; making the brouhaha surrounding Clint Eastwood&#8217;s &#8220;Halftime in America&#8221; Super Bowl TV commercial for Chrysler yesterday that much more amusing. Ah, the fights we find ourselves getting into. This seems to be a classic case where politicized punditry and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Romney, the &#8220;Very Poor,&#8221; and American Identity</title>
		<link>http://www.augustana.net/blogs/politicaldenizens/index.php/2012/02/03/romney-the-very-poor-and-american-identity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stephenklien]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, Mitt Romney&#8217;s latest interview gaffe, in which an offhand remark (well, not so offhand, see below) reveals a potential lack of empathy with regard to impoverished Americans and public policy on poverty, has captured this week&#8217;s media cycle and crackled across the blogosphere.  While you may well be familiar with this story, check [&#8230;]]]></description>
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