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	<title>Presidential Power &#187; local vs. national forces</title>
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		<title>The Most Nationalized Midterm Election In At Least 56 Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Dickinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In previous posts (see here and here and here), I noted that the Republican pickup of 63 House seats (with one race still to be determined) was the largest midterm seat gain since 1938 – a gain that almost no &#8230; <a href="http://sites.middlebury.edu/presidentialpower/2010/12/05/the-most-nationalized-midterm-election-in-at-least-54-years/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;There Is No There, There&#8221;: Obama and the Polarized Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Dickinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell&#8217;s recent broadside blasting President Obama for his failure to fulfill his promise to govern in bipartisan fashion is merely the latest such charge leveled by leaders of both parties on this topic. Predictably, Democrats &#8230; <a href="http://sites.middlebury.edu/presidentialpower/2009/03/30/there-is-no-there-there-obama-and-the-polarized-congress/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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