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		<title>Bloomberg favored to win 3rd term as NYC mayor, but not in landslide like last re-election</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara Kugler</dc:creator>
		
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Bloomberg favored to win 3rd term as NYC mayor

NEW YORK — A year after Mayor Michael Bloomberg orchestrated a change to city law so he could run for a third term, voters decided Tuesday whether to keep the billionaire in office for another four years.
Bloomberg, the richest man in New York and founder of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honduras&#8217; interim president says negotiations on coup must now wait for next month&#8217;s election</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Zamorano</dc:creator>
		
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Honduras&#8217; interim leader calls for ending talks

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — With three U.S. diplomats expected to arrive in coup-torn Honduras, interim President Roberto Micheletti said Tuesday that negotiations on ending a four-month political crisis must wait until after Nov. 29 elections.
Dialogue between his faction and supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya is &#8220;not going to fix [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gallup poll says three-fourths of Hondurans believe presidential ballot will end coup crisis</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/gallup-poll-says-three-fourths-of-hondurans-believe-presidential-ballot-will-end-coup-crisis-209191/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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Gallup: 73pc in Honduras say vote will solve coup

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Three out of four Hondurans believe a political crisis that began with a coup four months ago will be resolved when they go to the polls next month to elect a new president, according to a CID-Gallup Poll released Tuesday.
Seventy-three percent of those surveyed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Senate primary opponent chips away at Fla. gov&#8217;s credibility over hug with Obama, stimulus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan Farrington</dc:creator>
		
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Fla. gov&#8217;s Obama hug lingers in US Senate primary
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Republican Gov. Charlie Crist probably wasn&#8217;t worried that literally embracing President Barack Obama back in February and strongly supporting the $787 billion federal stimulus package would hurt his U.S. Senate campaign.
Sure, the hardcore party base wasn&#8217;t happy, but the appearance was an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New poll shows New York City Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s Democratic foe, Thompson, is losing ground</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/new-poll-shows-new-york-city-mayor-bloombergs-democratic-foe-thompson-is-losing-ground-205016/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara Kugler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg&#8217;s Democratic challenger has lost ground, a new poll shows, despite increasing his television ads and the force with which he&#8217;s attacking the popular billionaire mayor.

The survey by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, released Thursday, found that William Thompson Jr. is 16 points behind Bloomberg, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conn. Sen Dodd hopes Obama visit will highlight his ties with president and his agenda</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Haigh</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HARTFORD, Conn. — Down in the polls a year before the 2010 election, Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd is hoping to tap into the statewide popularity of President Barack Obama.

Besides raising money, Dodd&#8217;s campaign manager hopes Friday&#8217;s $1,000-a-plate fundraiser will highlight what he calls &#8220;a partnership&#8221; that&#8217;s developed between Dodd and the Democratic president on issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poll finds that Schwarzenegger&#8217;s approval rating has dropped to all-time low</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/poll-finds-that-schwarzeneggers-approval-rating-has-dropped-to-all-time-low-194711/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is having trouble selling his latest act to California voters.

A Field Poll released Tuesday finds the Republican governor with his lowest approval rating ever. Just 27 percent of voters approve of his performance, while 65 percent disapprove.
The governor&#8217;s esteem has been slipping since December 2007, when he enjoyed an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Entrenched Chicago mayor shows no sign of leaving office quietly, despite failed Olympic bid</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/entrenched-chicago-mayor-shows-no-sign-of-leaving-office-quietly-despite-failed-olympic-bid-191409/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO — A Daley has run Chicago and its all-powerful Democratic political machine for 41 of the last 54 years, and despite a recent spate of bad publicity for the nation&#8217;s third-largest city, Mayor Richard M. Daley shows no sign of relinquishing his throne.

In office for 20 years and on track to surpass his legendary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP Poll: Obama&#8217;s job approval rises after declining since inauguration; war support declines</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ap-poll-obamas-job-approval-rises-after-declining-since-inauguration-war-support-declines-188721/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Fouhy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — President Barack Obama&#8217;s approval ratings are starting to rise after declining ever since his inauguration, new poll figures show as the country&#8217;s mood begins to brighten. But concerns about the economy, health care and war persist, and support for the war in Afghanistan is falling.

An Associated Press-GfK poll says 56 percent of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate GOP leader offers no support for Ensign amid new allegations about cover-up affair</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/senate-gop-leader-offers-no-support-for-ensign-amid-new-allegations-about-cover-up-affair-185448/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sen. John Ensign of Nevada was only beginning to emerge from a self-imposed political exile over fallout from his extramarital affair with a campaign aide. Now, tawdry new details about the case are raising fresh questions whether Ensign can be re-elected in 2012 — or even face criminal charges over his behavior.

If Ensign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloomberg has spent $64.8 million on 3rd campaign; burns through cash at $15k-per-hour clip</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara Kugler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spent $64.8 million of his own money in his bid for a third term and, since midsummer, has been spending campaign cash at a rate of $15,000 per hour.

The popular billionaire incumbent is heavily favored against Democrat William Thompson Jr., who has collected $8 million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Candidates make run for crucial 2.4M independents in New Jersey governor&#8217;s race</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/candidates-make-run-for-crucial-24m-independents-in-new-jersey-governors-race-178464/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TRENTON, N.J. — After casting his vote for Democrat Jon Corzine four years ago, Daniel Wilson is backing the Republican challenger this time around, unhappy the New Jersey governor has not eased the high tax burden on state businesses and residents.

&#8220;Unfortunately, I feel that he has been an enormous disappointment and I&#8217;m disappointed that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY governor ignores pressure to end 2010 election quest despite pressure from senior Democrats</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Gormley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. David Paterson isn&#8217;t scrapping his plans to run for the office he inherited 18 months ago, despite growing pressure from Washington and intervention by the Rev. Al Sharpton, who has contacted the governor and the White House over his concern.

&#8220;My plans for 2010 are to run for governor of the state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s new Cabinet kicks off with strong public support, polls show</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shino Yuasa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — Japan&#8217;s new, largely untested Cabinet is starting out with high public approval ratings amid hopes that Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama&#8217;s government will reinvigorate the world&#8217;s second-largest economy, polls showed Friday.

The approval rating for Hatoyama&#8217;s Cabinet, announced Wednesday, reached 77 percent, the second-highest level after former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi&#8217;s public support at 85 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan ruling party the underdog as campaigning begin in hotly contested elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Talmadge</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — Campaigning began Tuesday in one of the most heated elections in Japan in more than a decade, with the party that has ruled the country almost continuously for 55 years trailing in polls and the opposition urging the nation to vote for a historic change.

At stake in the Aug. 30 elections are all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Campaigning begins for hotly contested Japan elections; ruling party seen as underdog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Talmadge</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — Political leaders took to the streets Tuesday as campaigning kicked off in one of the most hotly contested elections Japan has seen in more than a decade, a race in which the party that has ruled the country for most of the past 55 years is considered a distant underdog.

The elections for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Campaigning begins for Japan&#8217;s hotly contested elections; ruling party seen as underdog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Talmadge</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — Campaigning began Tuesday for one of the most hotly contested elections Japan has seen in more than a decade, with a major poll saying the party that has run the country for most of the past 55 years is lagging far behind the opposition.

The elections for the lower house of parliament, to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Campaign begins for hotly contested Japan elections; Ruling party seen as underdog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Talmadge</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — Campaigning began Tuesday for one of the most hotly contested elections Japan has seen in more than a decade and a major poll said the party that has run the country for most of the past 55 years is lagging well behind the opposition.

The elections for the lower house of parliament, to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama heading to mountain West, a microcosm of his vulnerability with the national electorate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz Sidoti</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DENVER — Perhaps no region of the country better illustrates President Barack Obama&#8217;s political vulnerabilities than the mountain West.

He&#8217;s hoping to ease some of those concerns in a Western swing blending town hall appearances and visits to national parks beginning Friday.
Democrats have made recent election inroads in the region by successfully courting independents, Republican crossovers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis: Obama hopes beers at the White House will be a toast, of sorts, to changing topics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin Woodward</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — &#8220;If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose,&#8221; the comedic philosopher Jack Handey once theorized.

A messy eureka moment like that wasn&#8217;t the point for the White House beer drinkers Thursday night.
President Barack Obama&#8217;s get-together with black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House: Apologies aren&#8217;t expected at Obama &#8216;beer summit&#8217; with police officer, professor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama does not expect his &#8220;beer summit&#8221; will be a mediation session for the black professor and the white policeman who arrested him to work out their differences, the White House said Thursday.

Obama invited Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley to join him for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poll: More people than not disapprove of Obama&#8217;s handling of black scholar&#8217;s arrest</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Elliott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama&#8217;s approval rating among white Americans has fallen as they have watched him wade into the racially tinged dispute between a white Cambridge, Mass., police officer and a well-known black Harvard scholar, according to a poll released Thursday.

The July 16 arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. for disorderly conduct in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis: Amid polls showing growing doubt on economy, Obama steps up talk of budget restraint</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Raum</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — At a critical moment in his presidency, Barack Obama finds increasing need to talk about taming federal deficits as he struggles with a dour economy.

It&#8217;s not just that Republicans are keeping up a relentless and punishing attack on his health care overhaul and other spending priorities. It&#8217;s also that Americans are losing confidence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama ytries to rally support for health care overhal, says debate is &#8216;not a game&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Feller</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Six months in office, President Barack Obama sought to rally support for sweeping health care legislation Wednesday night as Congress struggled to find agreement on a historic overhaul. He vowed to reject any measure &#8220;primarily funded through taxing middle-class families.&#8221;

At a prime-time news conference, Obama defended his decision to set a midsummer deadline [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama urges faster action on health care overhaul, says debate is &#8216;not a game&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/obama-urges-faster-action-on-health-care-overhaul-says-debate-is-not-a-game-117813/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Feller</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Wednesday night that Medicare and Medicaid are the &#8220;biggest driving force behind&#8221; massive federal deficits, and must be tamed as part of any health care legislation.

At a prime-time news conference marking six months in office, Obama said health care legislation was key to a strong economic recovery, and he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prime-time news conference as health care debate reaches a key moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Feller</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Six months into his presidency, Barack Obama now owns America&#8217;s problems and a solid but slipping approval rating. He goes before the nation Wednesday night to defend his economic decisions and press his fight for the health care overhaul he says is desperately needed.

Holding his 10th extended news conference, Obama will renew a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP-GfK Poll: Great expectations for Obama give way to harsh realities, slip in approval rating</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor Tompson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — That was fast.

The hope and optimism that washed over the country in the opening months of Barack Obama&#8217;s presidency are giving way to harsh realities.
An Associated Press-GfK Poll shows that a majority of Americans are back to thinking that the country is headed in the wrong direction after a fleeting period in which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s PM dissolves parliament, urges voters to resist change in coming elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko A. Hosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — Prime Minister Taro Aso, who triggered new elections when he dissolved the powerful lower house of Japan&#8217;s parliament on Tuesday, launched his party&#8217;s fight for survival with a familiar refrain: Reject change.

It&#8217;s a message that has kept the ruling Liberal Democrats in power for most of the past 55 years. But Japanese voters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s beleaguered prime minister dissolves parliament and calls national elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko A. Hosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — Prime Minister Taro Aso dissolved the powerful lower house of Japan&#8217;s parliament Tuesday and vowed his divided ruling party will make a new start in national elections next month despite forecasts it may lose the grip it has held on the nation for most of the past 55 years.

Aso, who had until October [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s support among some Democrats eroding over divisions on health care, concern on economy</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/obamas-support-among-some-democrats-eroding-over-divisions-on-health-care-concern-on-economy-113754/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Fouhy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Might that Midas magic be dulling for President Barack Obama, even among fellow Democrats?

Conservative House Democrats are balking at the cost and direction of Obama&#8217;s health care overhaul. A key Senate Democrat, Max Baucus of Montana, complains that Obama&#8217;s opposition to paying for it with a tax on health benefits &#8220;is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Divisions on health care, concern over economy costing Obama some support among Democrats</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Fouhy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Could it be that President Barack Obama&#8217;s Midas touch is starting to dull a bit, even among members of his own party?

Conservative House Democrats are balking at the cost and direction of Obama&#8217;s top priority, an overhaul of the nation&#8217;s health care system. A key Senate Democrat, Max Baucus of Montana, complains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gallup Poll: Honduras ousted president more popular than replacement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — More results from a Gallup survey in Honduras were published Wednesday, showing ousted President Manuel Zelaya remains more popular than his interim replacement Roberto Micheletti.

The nationwide survey — which was done after Zelaya was sent into forced exile in a military coup — shows Zelaya with 46 percent favorable opinion and 44 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MOUNTAIN OF DEBT: Americans feeling less debt stress despite joblessness, lost savings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeannine Aversa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Unemployment is rising. Nest eggs are in tatters. Home values have tanked. And yet surprisingly, Americans are feeling less stress from debt these days.

Chalk it up to the power of positive thinking combined with people saving more, spending less and trimming debt to cope with the recession.
The upshot is that more people are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis: Obama advancing agenda but finding his global reach only goes so far</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Babington</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[L&#8217;AQUILA, Italy — Barack Obama is finding that even the reach of a globally popular president goes only so far, leaving him to snatch partial victories as he can. For all his effort, his strategy also banks heavily on the commodity that helped get him elected: hope.

Obama came to a summit of world leaders this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CAPITAL CULTURE: Michelle v. Barack He&#8217;s Internet click magnet; she wins points for style</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Benac</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — He&#8217;s more powerful; she&#8217;s more popular.

He sells millions of books he&#8217;s written; she sells millions of magazines she&#8217;s posed for.
He gets more Internet clicks — except when she does.
There are plenty of ways to score a theoretical Barack v. Michelle celebrity smackdown.
But if one is to engage in this just-for-fun dissection of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michelle v. Barack smackdown: He&#8217;s the Internet click magnet; she wins points for style</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/michelle-v-barack-smackdown-hes-the-internet-click-magnet-she-wins-points-for-style-101383/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Benac</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — He&#8217;s more powerful; she&#8217;s more popular.

He sells millions of books he&#8217;s written; she sells millions of magazines she&#8217;s posed for.
He gets more Internet clicks — except when she does.
There are plenty of ways to score a theoretical Barack v. Michelle celebrity smackdown.
But if one is to engage in this just-for-fun dissection of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honduras&#8217; swift, bloodless coup was months in the making</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/honduras-swift-bloodless-coup-was-months-in-the-making-99514/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Weissert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Soldiers ringed President Manuel Zelaya&#8217;s modest home, spilled into the cul-de-sac and swarmed the neighborhood, blocking what little traffic there was in a posh corner of the Honduran capital so early on a weekend morning.

Zelaya already was rousted from bed by a shootout between a presidential security detail and his own armed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deadly clash with Indian protesters sends Peru leader&#8217;s approval rating down for 3rd month</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/deadly-clash-with-indian-protesters-sends-peru-leaders-approval-rating-down-for-3rd-month-88415/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LIMA, Peru — A poll in Peru says President Alan Garcia&#8217;s approval rating has fallen to its lowest level in 18 months, hurt by a June 5 clash between security forces and Amazonian Indian protesters that killed at least 33 people.

The firm Ipsos Support says only 21 percent of Peruvians surveyed approve of Garcia&#8217;s management, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banking chairman Chris Dodd takes on lead role in health care overhaul from ailing Kennedy</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/banking-chairman-chris-dodd-takes-on-lead-role-in-health-care-overhaul-from-ailing-kennedy-76954/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie Kellman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sen. Chris Dodd is emerging as the face of a Senate plan to overhaul the nation&#8217;s health care system in the absence of Congress&#8217; acknowledged expert on the subject, ailing Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.

Republicans already are griping about being frozen out, saying that Kennedy wouldn&#8217;t treat them that way.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve never worked a process [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama&#8217;s new &#8216;accelerated&#8217; recovery plan is neither new nor accelerated</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/president-obamas-new-accelerated-recovery-plan-is-neither-new-nor-accelerated-76046/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Apuzzo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is promising some exciting coming attractions for his stimulus plan. But it turns out they&#8217;re just summer reruns.

Obama promised Monday to ramp up spending from the $787 billion stimulus fund and create or save 600,000 jobs by the end of the summer. It was an effort to shift the focus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SPIN METER: Obama&#8217;s new &#8216;accelerated&#8217; recovery plan is neither new nor accelerated</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/spin-meter-obamas-new-accelerated-recovery-plan-is-neither-new-nor-accelerated-76006/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/spin-meter-obamas-new-accelerated-recovery-plan-is-neither-new-nor-accelerated-76006/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Apuzzo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is promising some exciting coming attractions for his stimulus plan. But it turns out they&#8217;re just summer reruns.

Obama promised Monday to ramp up spending from the $787 billion stimulus fund and create or save 600,000 jobs by the end of the summer. It was an effort to shift the focus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY mayor seeks to warm up cold image at event with women voters, is praised by Whoopi Goldberg</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ny-mayor-seeks-to-warm-up-cold-image-at-event-with-women-voters-is-praised-by-whoopi-goldberg-75834/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara Kugler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who&#8217;s sometimes perceived as cold and unfriendly, sought to warm up his image at an event with women voters on Monday.

Bloomberg, a divorced billionaire who has two grown daughters, sat on a stage bathed in purple light next to a bouquet of flowers and took questions from the invited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama defends revival plan, says it will provide 600,000 jobs this summer despite jobless rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Apuzzo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama assured the nation his recovery plan was on track Monday, scrambling to calm Americans unnerved by unemployment rates still persistently rising nearly four months after he signed the biggest economic stimulus in history.

Obama admitted his own dissatisfaction with the progress but said his administration would ramp up stimulus spending in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP News in Brief</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ap-news-in-brief-2-71316/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
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KABUL (AP) — Roadside bombs — the biggest killer of U.S. soldiers — claimed eight more American lives Tuesday, driving the U.S. death toll to a record level for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colombia&#8217;s Uribe on track for 3rd presidential term, but some supporters object</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 02:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Bajak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BOGOTA — President Alvaro Uribe, the hard-charging conservative most Colombians praise for humbling the Western Hemisphere&#8217;s last remaining rebel army, gets prickly these days when asked if he&#8217;s seeking a third consecutive term.

&#8220;Another question, amigo,&#8221; Uribe said as he brusquely dismissed a BBC reporter during a recent interview in Europe.
Uribe&#8217;s unwillingness to clarify the question [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outraged Catholics seek to stop Obama&#8217;s Notre Dame speech; fight shows big divide in church</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 20:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Fouhy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — A campaign by outraged Roman Catholics to keep President Barack Obama from delivering the commencement address at Notre Dame shows that the gulf between the church and backers of abortion rights remains deep.

Yet the effort to get the school to rescind its invitation to Obama also highlights a political disconnect between the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP leaders say ex-Homeland Security boss Tom Ridge weighing bid for Arlen Specter Senate seat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 06:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Jackson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HARRISBURG, Pa. — Tom Ridge, the former governor who became the nation&#8217;s first homeland security chief, may challenge Sen. Arlen Specter in the state next year, Republican Party leaders confirmed Tuesday.

&#8220;He&#8217;s considering it,&#8221; said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee in Washington.
Bob Asher, the state&#8217;s Republican national committeeman, said he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dems sense opportunity with growing acceptance of gay marriage, GOP re-examining opposition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 06:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz Sidoti</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Gay marriage legalization in several states and the public&#8217;s growing acceptance of same-sex unions have Democrats sensing political opportunity and some Republicans re-evaluating their party&#8217;s hard-line opposition to an issue that long has rallied its base.

In recent weeks, Vermont and Iowa have legalized same-sex marriage, while New York, Maine and New Hampshire have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing acceptance of gay marriage has Dems seeing opportunity, GOP re-examining opposition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 21:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz Sidoti</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Gay marriage legalization in several states and the public&#8217;s growing acceptance of same-sex unions have Democrats sensing political opportunity and some Republicans re-evaluating their party&#8217;s hard-line opposition to an issue that long has rallied its base.

In recent weeks, Vermont and Iowa have legalized same-sex marriage, while New York, Maine and New Hampshire have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s bipartisanship promise proves easier said than done in first months</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/obamas-bipartisanship-promise-proves-easier-said-than-done-in-first-months-36805/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz Sidoti</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Barack Obama swept into office with a lofty promise to bridge the capital&#8217;s fierce partisan divide.

Easier said than done.
&#8220;Old habits are hard to break,&#8221; the new president acknowledged in February as reality set in just weeks after he took office.
And that reproach includes him, too, as he nears the 100-day mark of his [...]]]></description>
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