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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton's High Water Mark]]></title>
							<link>http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/05/hillarys_high_water_mark.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Walker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Can polling data this early tell us anything about Hillary&rsquo;s prospects in November 2016? Hillary is an old political figure who has been in the public eye for the last 23 years. Americans can learn very little new about Hillary, and the bland, familiar political rhetoric about new ideas and change and progress are so dull and predictable that few voters could possibly be influenced that that sort of glop.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Scott Walker Unstoppable?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/03/is_walker_unstoppable.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Walker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Scott Walker is riding high now, and soon he will be unstoppable.The two political parties are becoming, more and more, ideological parties.  Gallup reports that 70% of all Republicans describe themselves as &#194;&#147;conservative&#194;&#148; (and that explains why Jeb Bush never fails to also describe himself also as &#194;&#147;conservative&#194;&#148;), and only 24% of Republicans describe themselves as &#194;&#147;moderate.&#194;&#148;]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Just How Bad a Candidate Would Clinton Be?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/03/just_how_bad_a_candidate_would_hillary_be.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Walker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Clintons&rsquo; foundation received money from foreign governments while Hillary was secretary of state.  Hillary used her own private e-mail system, and not the official and secure government e-mail system, to conduct government business as secretary of state.  She whines about the problems of paying the mortgage(s) on her house(s) as a way to draw sympathy from the middle class.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Might Hillary Clinton Stay Out?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/02/might_hillary_stay_out.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Walker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats need Hillary, but does she need them? Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton has always lusted for power, for wealth, and for influence &ndash; that is why she stayed in a loveless marriage to a despicable cad like Bill so long &ndash; but there is another aspect to this vain, shallow creature. Hillary abhors personal risk. It was Bill, not Hillary, who ran for Congress, for Arkansas attorney general, and for governor in Arkansas. Hillary was safely perched in the Rose Law Firm, gaining money and position at minimal personal risk. Hillary has been involved as a candidate in only three contests: New York Senate race in 2000, New York Senate re-election in 2006, and the Democrat nomination...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Durbin in Danger?]]></title>
							<link>http://americanthinker.com/2014/09/is_durbin_in_danger.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Walker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Republicans contemplate the possible size of their November victory, outlier races may get interesting.  Scott Brown, a few weeks ago considered certain to lose, may well win in New Hampshire.  Most folks would not have thought that Republican Terri Land had a chance in a blue state like Michigan, but she continues to run close to Peters in the race.  Al Franken also cannot pull away in his re-election fight, and all the polls show that race tightening.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How GOP Can Sweep 2012 Elections]]></title>
							<link>http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/the_grand_theme_of_governing.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Walker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How can Republicans clean Democrat clocks all over the country?  All it will take is a simple message: Republicans can govern.  Democrats can't.Think of all the contrasts available between adroit Republican governors and flailing Democratic ones.  For one, the surreal spectacle of Wisconsin Democrats focusing resources on their third election campaign since the 2010 election to defeat Scott Walker's collective bargaining reform, even when that reform is no longer a real issue, shows that Democrats are in election mode every moment of every year.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Discouraged Dems May Mean Historic Sweep for GOP]]></title>
							<link>http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/discouraged_democrat_voters_may_mean_historic_sweep_for_gop.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Walker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Most polls, Rasmussen excepted, continue to show that neither presidential candidate is pulling away from the other and that close Senate races have shifting leads.  Primary elections, however, are showing a very different situation -- and it is voters who turn out in elections, not random Americans called by pollsters, who determine the winners and losers in politics.  If the latest news can be believed -- and we have every reason to believe it -- there is a conservative voting trend building, and its momentum is going to make it truly terrifying for liberals come November.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Importance of Wisconsin]]></title>
							<link>http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/watch_wisconsin.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Walker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republican Governor Scott Walker, Lieutenant Governor Kleefisch and two Republican state senators will face a recall vote in Wisconsin and the date of that election, with the likely date of the recall vote being June 5.  A fifth Republican, Senator Pam Galloway, who was also going to face a recall election, has resigned from the state senate.  This leaves the Senate tied 16-16, so  the recall vote in June will determine which party controls the Wisconsin Senate. So is the left winning there?  Wisconsin is a left-leaning state, the sort whose general support Democrats need if they are going to rule America.  If Democrats fail in these recall elections, then the left will have suffered a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Decline of the Left]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/15/the_decline_of_the_left_99167.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Walker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican landslide in Virginia and stunning upset in New Jersey were not the only bad news for the left in the last few months. The Social Democrats in the September German elections for the Bundestag did worse than in any election since the Second World War.  Merkel's Christian Democrats lost some support as well, but the market oriented Free Democrats made major gains and a center-right coalition now governs Germany with a majority of seats in the Bundestag.   Polling data one month after the German general election indicates that Germans continue to oppose a left of center government.
The Labour Party in Britain has suffered two seasons of dramatic thumping in local council and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Not Ready for Prime Time President]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/09/03/the_not_ready_for_prime_time_president_98150.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Walker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pundits, including perceptive conservative opponents like Charles Krauthammer, have noted the consummate political skill of Barack Obama.  There is not much doubt that Obama was able to wage a very effective campaign for the Democratic nomination and then for the presidency in the general election.
Bill Clinton was a masterful campaigner too (I had the opportunity to watch some of that first hand.)  Ronald Reagan, because in part of his long career in Hollywood, could give "The Speech" a thousand times and each time it was electrifying.  The word "charisma" entered our popular political language to describe John Kennedy, whose beautiful wife and boyish good looks created the myth of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Collapsing Global Left]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/06/09/the_collapsing_global_left_96906.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Walker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conservatives can take heart from the crushing blow that taxes and spenders received in the California election.  Six propositions were on the ballot in May.  All six passed the California Legislature easily.  Republicans in the legislature generally opposed them.  The five supported by the Left were defeated by huge landslides.  Four of those five were defeated in every single county in California (the fifth barely carried the San Francisco area.)  The proposition to limit legislative salaries while the state ran a deficit, however, carried every county in California and won 75% of the vote across the state.
Was this a victory for conservatives?  It was in this sense:  It was a crushing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Problem with Obama's Father's Day Speech]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/the_problem_with_obamas_father.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Walker</author>
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