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		<title>Political Picures of the Week, May 18-25</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/25/political-picures-of-the-week-may-18-25/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 21:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kari Collins</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&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71364&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Phony War: Obama and Romney Are Debating Character, Not Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 18:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Crowley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than five months from Election Day, the back-and-forth about Mitt Romney&#8217;s record at Bain already feels played out. Unfortunately, there&#8217;s good reason to expect the campaign continues in this vein indefinitely. Neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney are terribly interested in dwelling on policy platforms. Romney&#8217;s plan to slash spending and keep taxes low [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71325&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>From left: AP; ABACAUSA</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[From left: Barack Obama; Mitt Romney]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Audacity of Dope: Tales of a Toking Teenage Obama</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/25/audacity-of-dope-tales-of-a-toking-teenage-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 17:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We knew Barack Obama smoked weed in high school because he wrote about it in his books. What we didn&#8217;t know, until Buzzfeed posted these choice nuggets (I&#8217;m so sorry) from David Maraniss&#8217;s new book on the President&#8217;s younger years, were the giggle-worthy details of his &#8220;Choom Gang&#8221; lifestyle, which are right out of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71326&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Stumbles? Why the President&#8217;s Right to Talk About Bain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 14:32:57 +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[The meme of the day in journo-world is that President Obama has stumbled at the outset of the general election campaign. The evidence for this? Well, uh, there isn&#8217;t very much, really&#8211;except that a few Democrats have criticized his campaign&#8217;s attacks on Mitt Romney&#8217;s record at Bain Capital and that Obama&#8217;s fundraising is merely humongous, instead [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71317&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty Images</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Barack Obama speaks during a campaign event in Denver on May 23, 2012.]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: Haunted</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/25/morning-must-reads-haunted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 12:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Must Reads]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Romney feels haunted by gaffes. Ground zero, Wisconsin. The Senate race is a better bellwether than the recall. Lights out in Detroit. Obama and John Roberts, 2005 edition. Give it to Marion Barry, he never screws up halfway. Propaganda contractor turns his work on USA Today journalists. Curt Schilling&#8217;s video company lays off its entire [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71314&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Education, Romney Seeks Distance from Obama — and Bush</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/25/on-education-romney-seeks-distance-from-obama-and-bush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 10:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a speech at the Latino Coalition&#8217;s annual economic summit in Washington on Wednesday, May 23, Mitt Romney called the U.S. education system a failure. Every child deserves a quality education, he said, particularly minority students who are consistently underserved. Fixing the system, according to Romney, is the &#8220;civil rights issue of our era.&#8221; That [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71308&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Persuasive Powers on Gay Marriage Manifest in Maryland</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/24/obamas-persuasive-powers-on-gay-marriage-manifest-in-maryland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 19:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When President Obama endorsed gay marriage earlier this month, the media grappled with two basic political questions: Was his personal &#8220;evolution&#8221; a case of a politician transparently following a national trend toward accepting same-sex unions (accelerated, perhaps, by his chatty No. 2), and would it hurt his re-election chances by alienating socially conservative voters like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71298&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Pete Souza / White House</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[In an interview with ABC's Robin Roberts, Obama declares his support for gay marriage]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Cherokee Zero</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/24/cherokee-zero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 14:47:15 +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[Apparently, Massachusetts voters don&#8217;t mind that Elizabeth Warren foolishly identified herself as a Native American early in her academic career&#8211;it was, apparently, a case of family pride and wishful thinking about a Cherokee ancestor. That&#8217;s good. Warren may be the best public figure when it comes to explaining the depredations of the financial industry and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71291&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Latest Column</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/24/latest-column-92/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 13:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In the Arena]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On what we should learn from 11 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71288&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: Identity</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/24/morning-must-reads-identity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 12:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Must Reads]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why the Massachusetts Senate race is close: the fundamentals favor Warren, Brown is more popular. George Will chalks it up to off-putting identity politics of l&#8217;affaire de Cherokee, though the polling suggests it&#8217;s not having a huge effect. Fewer Americans are identifying as &#8220;pro-choice&#8221; even though their views on abortion haven&#8217;t changed. On white resentment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71284&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Romney Defends Bain Record, Hits Obama on Economy: &#8216;He Just Doesn’t Have a Clue&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/23/romney-defends-bain-record-hits-obama-on-economy-he-just-doesnt-have-a-clue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 16:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney lashed President Obama&#8217;s economic stewardship in an interview with TIME&#8217;s Mark Halperin on Wednesday, deflecting attacks on his years as a private equity executive and laying out how he hopes to take control of the economy as soon as he&#8217;s sworn in, should he defeat Obama in November. A week after the President&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71271&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mother of Mitt: How Lenore Romney&#8217;s Failed Campaign Shaped the Presumptive Republican Nominee</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/23/mother-of-mitt-how-lenore-romneys-failed-campaign-shaped-the-presumptive-republican-nominee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 16:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Dias</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week’s TIME cover story, “The Mother of the Mitt Campaign,” tells the tale of how Lenore Romney’s 1970 run for U.S. Senate may have made a bigger impression on the Republican presidential candidate than his years spent as the son of a governor. Mitt’s father lost his own presidential bid, but it was the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71263&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Pakistani Allies</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/23/our-pakistani-allies-4/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/23/our-pakistani-allies-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 13:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In another demonstration of diplomatic silliness, the Pakistanis have convicted the doctor who helped us find Osama bin Laden of treason and sentenced him to 33 years in prison. This helps to clarify which side the Pakistanis are actually on. Hint: it&#8217;s not ours. I&#8217;ll have more about this in my print column tomorrow.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71259&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: Revisited</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/23/morning-must-reads-revisited/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/23/morning-must-reads-revisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 12:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Must Reads]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8221;Uncommitted&#8221; and a perennial candidate gave Obama a run for his money last night in Arkansas and Kentucky primaries. It&#8217;s almost as if he might lose those states, which McCain won by about 20 points in 2008, this fall. A WSJ/NBC poll finds that very few people are familiar with or have an opinion about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71255&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Long-Term Uncertainty Remains in Nuclear Talks with Iran</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/23/long-term-uncertainty-remains-in-nuclear-talks-with-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/23/long-term-uncertainty-remains-in-nuclear-talks-with-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 11:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Karon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone banking on a big-win breakthrough in Wednesday’s nuclear talks with Iran will likely find themselves in the same boat as investors who bet on an instant surge in the Facebook stock price last week. If there’s value to be found in nuclear negotiations with Iran, then — like an investment in Facebook — it’s likely to emerge over time. And in both cases, even the long-term outcome remains uncertain.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71250&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s European Stimulus Challenge</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/23/obamas-european-stimulus-challenge/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/23/obamas-european-stimulus-challenge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 11:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[europe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama’s reelection may well depend on stimulus. Not the stimulus bill that passed Congress in 2009. Or the monetary injections administered by the Federal Reserve. This stimulus won’t even be debated in Washington. Obama’s reelection hinges on whether 17 Eurozone nations can band together to deal with a financial crisis threatening to tear apart Europe’s common currency [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71233&#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[US President Barack Obama     ]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Congressional Budget Office: Yeah Guys, Jumping Off the &#8216;Fiscal Cliff&#8217; Is as Bad as It Sounds</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/22/congressional-budget-office-yeah-guys-jumping-off-the-fiscal-cliff-is-as-bad-as-it-sounds/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/22/congressional-budget-office-yeah-guys-jumping-off-the-fiscal-cliff-is-as-bad-as-it-sounds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 22:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Breaking up partisan budgetary knife-fights can be perilous business, so in its new report on a cluster of expiring tax breaks and scheduled spending cuts, the Congressional Budget Office, home to Capitol Hill&#8217;s weary fiscal referees, exercises restraint. While most Washingtonians call it &#8220;Taxmageddon,&#8221; the CBO bean-counters refer to the event, set to take place January 1 if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71230&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Brendan Hoffman / Bloomberg via Getty Images</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) 2011 annual federal budget is displayed during a news conference in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011]]></mediaCaption>
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			<media:title type="html">Adam Sorensen</media:title>
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		<title>Iran Nuke Concession?</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/22/iran-nuke-concession/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/22/iran-nuke-concession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 20:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In the Arena]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times is reporting that Iran may be about to open its Parchin military facility to international inspections. This is a biggish deal, but not a complete breakthrough. Parchin is where Iran may have been conducting experiments on weaponizing its nuclear fuel; there has been speculation that the facility housed a chamber to test [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71227&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ed Rendell&#8217;s 2005 &#8216;Kiss of Death&#8217; Endorsement of Mitt Romney</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/22/ed-rendells-2005-kiss-of-death-endorsement-of-mitt-romney/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/22/ed-rendells-2005-kiss-of-death-endorsement-of-mitt-romney/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 14:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Scherer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Rendell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mitt romney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell weighed in Monday on the Obama campaign&#8217;s Bain Capital attacks and, alas, another would-be Obama surrogate bit the dust. &#8220;I think they’re very disappointing,&#8221; Rendell told Buzzfeed about the negative ads by Chicago. &#8220;I think Bain is fair game, because Romney has made it fair game. But I think how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71216&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: Pressure</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/22/morning-must-reads-pressure/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/22/morning-must-reads-pressure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 12:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Must Reads]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Obama and Romney run dead even on the economy, which 80% say is still bad though a slim majority now feel hopeful about its direction. The way for conservatives to embrace Romney is to pressure him. Unable to further avail the White House, Catholic institutions sue the Obama Administration over contraception coverage requirement. HHS awards [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71212&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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