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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Love Letters: The Power of the Poetry Nerds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 16:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if it means anything &#8212; it might mean nothing &#8212; but two of the most powerful people in the world, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, apparently spent a lot of time in college thinking, writing or speaking about T.S. Eliot&#8217;s Four Quartets. For those familiar with English majors on American campuses in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70360&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WSJ vs. NYT on Murdoch</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Compare and contrast these two headlines on octogenarian NewsCorp chief Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s testimony yesterday in front of panel investigating press ethics at his and other British papers: Murdoch, Center Stage, Plays Powerless Broker vs. Murdoch Bats Away &#8216;Myths&#8217; To their credit, the Journal reporters (article number two) take a fairly dry, factual approach to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70058&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Days of Osama bin Laden</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exclusives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As U.S. Navy Seals burst into his fortress-like compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, nearly one year ago, Osama bin Laden turned to the youngest of his four wives and said his last words: “Don’t turn on the light.” That detail and a number of exclusive insights into bin Laden’s life and death in Abbottabad are contained [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70022&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Regulators Delayed the Volcker Rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial Regulation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dodd-frank]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[volcker rule]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal regulators announced Thursday that final implementation of the Volcker Rule will be delayed two years beyond the nominal deadline this July. The delay is a win for banks that were struggling to adjust to the looming restriction on their ability to make money through market trading as opposed to the more traditional, less profitable, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=69811&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Newt Gingrich Can Cash in By Cashing Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campaigns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With Rick Santorum out of the race and Ron Paul running on principle (read: going nowhere), Newt Gingrich is the last man standing in opposition to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney. Which means Gingrich faces an important, dare I say a fundamental question. How can he monetize the situation? As you may have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=69376&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Lessons of Bosnia</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/04/05/the-lessons-of-bosnia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our photo site, LightBox, has a powerful collection of images by some of the world&#8217;s best photojournalists from the Bosnian War, which began 20 years ago this month. I wrote the following brief observation to accompany the spread: If the last lines of the 20th century were written in Moscow in December 1991 with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=68945&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Obamacare May Stand: Reading Justice Kennedy, the Supreme Court&#8217;s Swing Vote</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/03/30/why-obamacare-may-stand-reading-justice-kennedy-the-supreme-courts-swing-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anthony kennedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obamacare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scotus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After three days of oral arguments and intense speculation in the press, the Supreme Court is said to be holding an initial vote Friday, March 30, on the fate of President Obama&#8217;s landmark health reform law. While conventional wisdom has swung against the high court&#8217;s upholding the law, a close reading of Justice Anthony Kennedy&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=68541&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health Reform Debate Arrives in the Supreme Court: Why It&#8217;s Not About Obama</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/03/26/health-reform-debate-arrives-in-the-supreme-court-why-its-not-about-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[affordable care act]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listening to the heated rhetoric coming out of Washington, you may think the three days of health care arguments at the Supreme Court that began Monday morning, March 26, are about whether President Obama should have the power to force Americans to buy health insurance and order states to double the size of Medicaid through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=68077&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Jonathan Ernst / Reuters</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Healthcare law supporters walk past opponents from the Tea Party Patriots group on the sidewalk outside ongoing legal arguments over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at the Supreme Court in Washington, March 26, 2012.]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Prosecutors Gone Bad: Misconduct in the Ted Stevens Corruption Trial</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/03/16/prosecutors-gone-bad-a-tale-of-misconduct-in-the-ted-stevens-corruption-trial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you think about innocent people suffering at the hands of power-abusing authorities, usually it’s foreign thugs jailing dissidents, or maybe cops gone bad in urban America. On Thursday, a special counsel appointed four years ago by a federal judge released a 514-page report on the abuse of power by prosecutors in the case against [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=67796&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Jose Luis Magana / AP</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, and his daughters Beth Stevens, left, and Susan Covich, arrive at federal court in Washington, Oct. 15, 2008. ]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>The 2nd Circuit Slams Occupy Wall Street &#8216;Hero&#8217; Judge Rakoff</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/03/16/the-2nd-circuit-slams-occupy-wall-street-hero-judge-rakoff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Courts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember how last fall that &#8220;heroic&#8221; Manhattan-based U.S. district court judge Jed Rakoff &#8220;ripped the SEC a new one&#8221; by blocking a massive settlement the agency had proposed  with Citigroup for the bank&#8217;s allegedly knowing and fraudulent acts in the run-up to the great recession? At the time of Rakoff&#8217;s decision last November, I wrote: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=67772&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>The Washington Post / Getty Images</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Washington, Jan. 19, 2012.]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>The Good and Bad Housing News in the February Jobs Report</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/03/09/the-good-and-bad-housing-news-in-the-february-jobs-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the challenges to economic recovery in the U.S. has been the glut of houses on the market as a result of the burst housing bubble that caused the great recession in the first place. A robust, job-creating recovery typically relies heavily on the construction sector for a substantial portion of the jobs created&#8211;I&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=67467&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Through Luck or Skill, Democrats Are Winning Tactical Advantages in 2012</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/03/09/lucky-or-good-a-2012-democratic-scorecard-so-far/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[obamacare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voting Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women’s Issues]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.time.com/?p=67430</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Facing the potentially insurmountable challenge of a slow economic recovery in an election year, Democrats have looked for little ways to gain political advantage over Republicans in 2012. Some of their efforts have bombed, like their rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline just as gas prices spiked. Others have gone nowhere, like their efforts to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=67430&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Limbaugh&#8217;s Rant Isn&#8217;t Just Ignorant; It&#8217;s Terrible Politics</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/03/02/limbaughs-rant-isnt-just-ignorant-its-terrible-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2012/03/02/limbaughs-rant-isnt-just-ignorant-its-terrible-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Viewpoint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birth control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contraception]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just as the GOP was struggling to recover from Rick Santorum&#8217;s self-declared crusade against the &#8220;dangers of contraception&#8221; in this country, along comes Rush Limbaugh with an offensive and ignorant series of attacks on Sandra Fluke, a young woman who testified recently regarding the financial cost of birth control for female students at Georgetown&#8217;s law [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=67037&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FBI Unveils Broader Wall Street Insider Trading Probe</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/02/28/fbi-unveils-broader-wall-street-insider-trading-probe/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2012/02/28/fbi-unveils-broader-wall-street-insider-trading-probe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fbi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FBI briefed reporters Monday on the widening probe into insider trading on Wall Street. The feds are building cases against as many as 120 people, according to reports out of the briefing. It&#8217;s the first time the feds have put a number on the size of the insider trading probe. There&#8217;s been an ongoing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=66697&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hate High Energy Prices? Eat More Cheese.</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/02/27/want-to-get-rid-of-high-energy-prices-youll-have-to-eat-a-lot-more-cheese/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2012/02/27/want-to-get-rid-of-high-energy-prices-youll-have-to-eat-a-lot-more-cheese/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cheese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An accounting firm called Baker Tilly (“Candor. Insight. Results.”) sent me an e-mail last Thursday with the following subject line: Waste to Energy at International Cheese Technology Expo It took me a little while to get my head around the full power of this beautifully terse and irresistibly earnest pitch. We were dealing here not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=66565&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Santorum&#8217;s Scolding Is Dooming His Campaign</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/02/27/why-rick-santorums-apocalyptic-talk-is-dooming-his-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2012/02/27/why-rick-santorums-apocalyptic-talk-is-dooming-his-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Campaigns]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early summer of 2006, then-Senator Rick Santorum was facing a tough reelection challenge, trailing Pennsylvania’s Treasurer Bob Casey by 9 points and struggling to shed his image as a Washington insider. So Santorum launched a statewide, 67-county push, raising twice as much money as Casey, hiring campaign-tested pollsters and ad-makers, and recasting himself [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=66604&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The (Presidential) Voice</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/02/22/the-presidential-voice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama upped the ante in his vocal contest with Mitt Romney last night during a taping of the PBS show, “In Performance at the White House.” The show featured some huge names, including Buddy Guy, B. B. King, Mick Jagger and Jeff Beck. As Obama prepared to leave the concert, the assembled stars [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=66316&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Federal Reserve&#8217;s Rule-Making Secrecy</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/02/21/the-federal-reserves-rule-making-secrecy/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2012/02/21/the-federal-reserves-rule-making-secrecy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal has a thoroughly reported story today on the rise in regulatory secrecy at the Federal Reserve. On 45 of 47 of the draft or final regulatory measures voted on by members since the passage of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill in July 2010, the Fed&#8217;s five voting members have e-mailed their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=66217&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Redistricting Fight Pushes Primary to End Of May</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/02/15/texas-redistricting-fight-pushes-primary-to-end-of-may/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2012/02/15/texas-redistricting-fight-pushes-primary-to-end-of-may/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redistricting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[texas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in January that a Texas court had gone too far in overriding the State legislature&#8217;s plan for redestricting, it seemed likely the state&#8217;s important primary would be pushed back, further elongating the protracted GOP presidential nomination contest. Today comes the news that, indeed, the primary originally scheduled for Super [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=65937&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mitt Romney Took Advantage of Government Subsidies at Bain</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/02/15/mitt-romney-took-advantage-of-government-subsidies-at-bain/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2012/02/15/mitt-romney-took-advantage-of-government-subsidies-at-bain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bain capital]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney&#8217;s making an interesting play in the firewall contest in Michigan, finessing his stand that the car companies would have been better off without President Barack Obama&#8217;s bailout to keep them afloat. He&#8217;s also made much of the dangers of government &#8220;picking winners and losers&#8221; when they give subsidies to companies. But the private [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=65936&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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