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		<title>The Story of Ron Paul&#8217;s Presidential Candidacy as Told by His Supporters in Our Comments Section</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 10:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people have hobbies: golf, model trains, restoring old cars, whatever. A year after Ron Paul announced his Republican presidential bid, I have concluded that his supporters must not do these things. They can&#8217;t possibly have the time. While others are at rest or at play, Paul&#8217;s supporters are on the Internet, googling his name [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70946&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: Regression</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 12:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Must Reads]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NYT/CBS poll finds Romney narrowly ahead, leading Obama among independents and women, despite an uptick in economic optimism. The public detects the whiff of politics in the President&#8217;s gay marriage flip. JPMorgan: a case of regression to the mean. Obama: &#8220;this is why we passed Wall Street reform.&#8221; Elizabeth Warren wants to re-segregate commercial and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70940&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bashing Bain: Why Obama&#8217;s New Attacks on Romney Might Not Work</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/15/bashing-bain-why-obamas-new-attacks-on-romney-might-not-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Scherer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The much-heralded and long-awaited Obama campaign media attack on Mitt Romney began Monday with a reporter conference call and the release of two videos bemoaning the pain caused after Romney’s former private equity firm, Bain Capital, took over a Missouri steel company called GST Steel. The effort is textbook negative politics, from the sympathetic white [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70902&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>MANDEL NGAN / AFP / Getty Images</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[President Barack Obama speaks on the economy May 8, 2012 at the State University of New York in Albany.]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>At Barnard, President Obama Is Optimistic, Blames The Messenger</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 21:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Scherer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t believe the hype. That was President Obama&#8217;s message to Barnard College&#8217;s 2012 graduating class. Though he used more words: This recession has been more brutal, the job losses steeper.  Politics seems nastier.  Congress more gridlocked than ever.  Some folks in the financial world have not exactly been model corporate citizens. No wonder that faith [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70927&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ron Paul Stops Active Campaigning, Vows Continued Delegate Fight</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 20:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Altman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ron Paul]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ron Paul on Monday announced he will scale back his already diminished presidential campaign, effectively ending his longshot bid for the Republican nomination. In an e-mail that took the tone of a valedictory, the libertarian icon said he would no longer compete in upcoming primaries, though his campaign would continue its work amassing delegates at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70914&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Joshua Sudock / The Orange County Register / ZUMAPRESS</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Presidential candidate Ron Paul speaks to a crowd of about 4,000 supporters during a campaign stop at Cal State Fullerton, May 2, 2012 in Fullerton, California. ]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>The Politics of the JPMorgan Mess: A Footnote for Obama and Romney&#8217;s Existing Attacks</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/14/the-politics-of-the-jpmorgan-mess-a-footnote-for-obama-and-romneys-existing-attacks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial regulation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget the particulars of JPMorgan&#8217;s $2 billion blunder, if it might have been stopped by a robust Volcker Rule or who would&#8217;ve done what differently. Here&#8217;s what you need to know about how the incident relates to the presidential campaign: Are tougher financial rules popular? Yes. Are people convinced the Dodd-Frank financial reform law completely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70907&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP / Getty Images</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[A woman walks by JP Morgan Chase &amp; Co headquarters in New York, May 14, 2012. ]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Romneyland Springs Leaks on Foreign Policy</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/14/romneyland-springs-leaks-on-foreign-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Crowley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen some recent praise for the discipline of the Romney campaign, which has generally proven effective at hewing to its core message and preventing internal strife from leaking to the media. David Sanger&#8217;s fascinating Sunday New York Times story on Romney&#8217;s foreign policy vision is a dramatic exception. I was grabbed right away by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70894&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Carlos Osorio / AP</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks in Lansing, Mich., May 8, 2012. ]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: Capital</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/14/morning-must-reads-capital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heads roll at JPMorgan, and it may get worse. For the uninitiated: the best explainer of the $2 billion loss. It&#8217;s worth revisiting this account of Romney&#8217;s financial regulation platform, or lack thereof, from early May. Painting in broad strokes, there&#8217;s a case that Hedge-gate hurts Obama. The President goes after Bain Capital on TV: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70883&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>JPMorgan&#8217;s Other Loss: A Voice for Regulatory Restraint</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/14/the-fall-of-jamie-dimon-washingtons-deregulation-squad-loses-credibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 10:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dodd-frank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jamie dimon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The failed bet that cost JPMorgan Chase $2 billion and plunged the bank&#8217;s stock by more than 9% on May 11 has rattled the financial sector. This wasn&#8217;t the case of a vigilante trader who struck out on his own. It was a top executive at the shining steel sentinel of the U.S. investment-banking industry, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70862&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Marco Rubio Win More Latinos Over to the GOP?</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/14/can-marco-rubio-win-more-latinos-over-to-the-gop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 10:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Padgett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marco Rubio]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always been skeptical of the conventional Beltway wisdom that Florida Senator Marco Rubio will be the politico who finally builds bridges between Latinos and Republicans. It’s not that Rubio isn’t a capable envoy; his efforts to craft an alternative version of the DREAM Act (legislation to let illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70854&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Jonathan Ernst / Reuters</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) addresses the American Conservative Union's annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, February 9, 2012.  ]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Jamie Dimon&#8217;s Worst Nightmare</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/13/jamie-dimons-worst-nightmare/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/13/jamie-dimons-worst-nightmare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 14:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Banks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over at the conservative American Enterprise Institute blog, James Pethokoukis has an idea that could be a total game-changer for Mitt Romney: he should come out for breaking up the five biggest banks, which control about 70% of all U.S. assets. This would be a move supported by discerning liberals and conservatives&#8211;as I wrote yesterday, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70848&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jamie Dimon&#8217;s Moral Hazard</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/12/jamie-dimons-moral-hazard/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/12/jamie-dimons-moral-hazard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 13:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Banks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jamie Dimon of JPMorganChase once was Barack Obama&#8217;s favorite banker, a big backer of the President&#8217;s 2008 campaign. But he&#8217;s been blowing hard and often when it turned out that Obama was attempting to&#8211;gasp!&#8211;regulate the banking industry after its wanton recklessness caused the stock market, and the economy, to crash. Dimon has gone on to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70842&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Political Pictures of the Week, May 5-11</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/11/political-pictures-of-the-week-may-5-11/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/11/political-pictures-of-the-week-may-5-11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 23:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Godvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Closeup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[student loan reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70822&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[College students from across the country listen as Howard University student Clarise McCants of Philadelphia, speaks about the student loan bill currently being debated by U.S. Senate during news conference May 8, 2012 in Washington. ]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Six Months Out, President Obama&#8217;s Campaign Still Faces Stiff Headwinds</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/11/six-months-out-president-obamas-campaign-still-faces-stiff-headwinds/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/11/six-months-out-president-obamas-campaign-still-faces-stiff-headwinds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 17:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Scherer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The week began here on Swampland with Mark Halperin&#8217;s optimistic dispatch from Chicago, &#8220;Why The Obama Campaign Is Confident About Beating Romney.&#8221; So perhaps it is appropriate that the week get bracketed by a report by William Galston, a Democratic strategist who has worked for Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Walter Mondale, among others. His [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70789&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>MANDEL NGAN / AFP / Getty Images</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[President Barack Obama waves after speaking at a campaign fundraiser May 10, 2012, at the Paramount Theater in Seattle, Washington.]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Scott Walker on Tape: Budget Bill Was &#8216;Divide and Conquer&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/11/scott-walker-on-tape-budget-bill-was-divide-and-conquer/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/11/scott-walker-on-tape-budget-bill-was-divide-and-conquer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Altman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scott walker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Barrett]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a month to go before Wisconsin&#8217;s gubernatorial recall vote, Democrats&#8217; case against Scott Walker is less about collective bargaining policy itself than the notion that the governor masked his intentions to limit it as part of the sweeping budget bill he championed last spring. The argument, which Politifact endorsed, is that Walker obscured his plan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70790&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Whitney Curtis / Getty Images</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker speaks during the NRA's Celebration of American Values Leadership Forum April 13, 2012 in St. Louis. ]]></mediaCaption>
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			<media:title type="html">Alex Altman</media:title>
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		<title>A President Is Not a Savior</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/11/a-president-is-not-a-savior/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/11/a-president-is-not-a-savior/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Crowley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure what to think about the charge that Mitt Romney bullied and maybe traumatized a student at his prep school. It&#8217;s a terrible story&#8211;but it was a long time ago.Today Romney seems like a solid family man who, from what I can tell, treats people well, even if he might have a latent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70792&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bully Pulpit Second Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/11/bully-pulpit-second-thoughts/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/11/bully-pulpit-second-thoughts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 13:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I fear that I went too easy on Mitt Romney with regard to his high school bullying escapades. It&#8217;s not the incident itself that troubles me — though it was, obviously, outrageous and disgraceful — so much as his current response: He doesn&#8217;t remember it. This is patent nonsense. How could he not remember it? Obviously [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70783&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: Behind the Times</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/11/mornign-must-reads-behind-the-times/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/11/mornign-must-reads-behind-the-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 12:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Must Reads]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s minority status to-do gets a longer paper trail. Obama&#8217;s evolution marks shifting Democratic coalition. Joe Biden says sorry for gay marriage thing. Pro-choice leader resigns, says movement is behind the times. America runs a surplus (just for one month). JP Morgan Chase cops to losing $2 billion on a bet. And Bachmann no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70779&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense of Mitt Romney, High School Bully</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/11/in-defense-of-mitt-romney-high-school-bully/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/11/in-defense-of-mitt-romney-high-school-bully/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 10:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Altman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jason Horowitz&#8217;s story in the Washington Post on Mitt Romney&#8217;s teenage years is a first-rate piece of reportage. The portrait of a high school class in 1965 is laced with anecdotes about the posh prep school&#8217;s social dynamics and institutional pressures, and it offers a useful window into Romney&#8217;s formative years. Unfortunately, now is the moment in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70746&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Jae C. Hong / AP</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney takes the stage at a campaign stop in Lansing, Mich., May 8, 2012. ]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>The Bully Pulpit</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/10/the-bully-pulpit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 22:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the Arena]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you feel an otherworldly&#8211;perhaps even divine&#8211;presence in the affairs of humankind. Today we have the astonishing juxtaposition of President Obama&#8217;s awkward, belated embrace of gay marriage, and the painful Washington Post story about Mitt Romney&#8217;s days as a bully at the ritzy Cranbrook School in Detroit. In the end, I suspect, neither of these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70768&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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