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		<title>A Gloomy Gingrich Struggles to Snap His Slide in Florida</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Altman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delray Beach, Florida “Three nuclear weapons properly placed in Israel is a second Holocaust,” Newt Gingrich tells a room full of Jews. “If you’re going to go to Yad Vashem, if you’re going to say never again,” he adds gravely, peering out at a sea of elderly voters with Obama: Oy Vey buttons and paddles [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&amp;blog=5284847&amp;post=64720&amp;subd=timeswampland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Political Pictures of the Week, Jan. 21-27</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Godvin</dc:creator>
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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&amp;blog=5284847&amp;post=64726&amp;subd=timeswampland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Malpractice Memo Depicts Obama&#8217;s Precarious Balancing Act on Health Reform</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/01/27/medical-malpractice-memo-depicts-obamas-precarious-balancing-act-on-health-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Pickert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s no secret that passing health care reform was a balancing act from beginning to end. For President Obama, keeping the legislation alive meant making sure congressional Democrats stayed happy, along with for-profit industries like insurers and Big Pharma and powerful non-profit interest groups like the AARP and the American Medical Association. Through health reform’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&amp;blog=5284847&amp;post=64700&amp;subd=timeswampland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fly Newt to the Moon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Crowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The emergence of a debate about colonizing the moon might be the goofiest-sounding idea in Republican primaries since Herman Cain proposed an electrified fence along the southern border. The difference is that returning to the moon is an idea that reasonable people take seriously. Campaigning in Florida this week, Gingrich proposed establishing a colony on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&amp;blog=5284847&amp;post=64672&amp;subd=timeswampland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Below Low</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:25:11 +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[I wonder if all those neoconservatives and assorted heroes who also style themselves as American patriots will tolerate this sort of rhetoric from Newt Gingrich, who is clearly groveling for Sheldon Adelson&#8217;s continued support. It seems to me that accusing the President of the United States of clearing the way for a &#8220;second holocaust&#8221; is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&amp;blog=5284847&amp;post=64691&amp;subd=timeswampland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Political Words of the Week: Lunch Meat and Space Travel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellany]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The American political lexicon is always evolving, and during campaign season, new phrases are as common as retirees in Boca Raton. Here are some of the words that have worked their way into the conversations this week. Self-deportation (n.): the act of voluntarily leaving a country that one has entered illegally, esp. in order to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&amp;blog=5284847&amp;post=64587&amp;subd=timeswampland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Elizabeth Warren and Dr. Phil</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/01/27/obama-elizabeth-warren-and-dr-phil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democratic Party]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, the President added a new line to his regular &#8220;fair share&#8221; repertoire on tax burdens and wealth distribution. &#8220;We do not begrudge wealth in this country. We aspire to financial success,&#8221; he said in a Michigan speech on college tuition, as he has countless times before. &#8220;But we also understand that we’re not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&amp;blog=5284847&amp;post=64676&amp;subd=timeswampland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: George Romney Biographer Dan Angel</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/01/27/qa-george-romney-biographer-dan-angel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1964, Dan Angel became a participant observer of Michigan Governor George Romney&#8217;s re-election campaign. He served as Lenore Romney&#8217;s escort and drove the governor&#8217;s press vehicle in order to gather research for a Ph.D dissertation at Purdue University on Romney&#8217;s bid. He was a frequent guest at the Romney residence and conducted six extensive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&amp;blog=5284847&amp;post=64529&amp;subd=timeswampland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Armageddon for Newt</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/01/27/armageddon-for-newt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Campaigns]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the wonderful things about our bloated, endless, tedious, miraculous presidential campaigns is that sooner or later you find out just exactly who these pretenders are. Thursday night in Jacksonville, after 18 debates in which his bluster camouflaged a myriad of flaws, Newt Gingrich&#8217;s deficits&#8211;the sloppiness, the hyperbole, the demagoguery&#8211;were made plain. There were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&amp;blog=5284847&amp;post=64651&amp;subd=timeswampland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: Clip</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/01/27/morning-must-reads-clip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economy grew at a 2.8% clip in the final quarter of 2011. Romney opens up a 9-point lead on Gingrich in Florida. He was spring-loaded every time Newt attacked in last night&#8217;s debate: But incorrectly claimed all his Fannie and Freddie investments were in a blind trust. There were gaps between Romney&#8217;s financial disclosure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&amp;blog=5284847&amp;post=64646&amp;subd=timeswampland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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