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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; McCain</title>
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		<title>Plumber Politics, the Finale</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/10/plumber-politics-the-finale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe the Plumber joins the party and throws McCain under the bus, describing him and his campaign as apalling, praising only Sarah Palin. Apparently he asked McCain some questions about his views on the federal bailouts and McCain responded like&#8230;well, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/10/plumber-politics-the-finale/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Operation Leper</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/06/operation-leper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RedState launches Operation Leper to expose recently unemployed McCain aides who are trying to pin their failures on Sarah Palin. Hardly unexpected. As Grover Norquist noted yesterday, the only time the McCain campaign led the polls was during the two &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/06/operation-leper/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cocktail Politics, Rio Rancho Office Space and Truman Republicans</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/03/cocktail-politics-rio-rancho-office-space-and-truman-republicans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It occurs to me that the sequence of cocktails is the best political indicator I know of on election night. In 2004 I was attending a Democratic election party and early on everyone was drinking wine and martinis in stemware, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/03/cocktail-politics-rio-rancho-office-space-and-truman-republicans/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is Income Tax Becoming Too Progressive?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/21/is-income-tax-becoming-too-progressive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fewer and fewer people are paying income tax and even less will be with either candidates tax plan. I don&#8217;t think this would be such a problem if we didn&#8217;t have such high spending, growing entitlements, and if so many &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/21/is-income-tax-becoming-too-progressive/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Socialism, Polls, Matt Drudge</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/19/socialism-polls-matt-drudge/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/19/socialism-polls-matt-drudge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably heard that John McCain has denounced Barack Obama&#8217;s &#8216;spread the wealth&#8217; formulation for tax policy as socialism. It&#8217;s an inflammatory but not unjustified charge, as a good definition for socialism is the equitable distribution of wealth to the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/19/socialism-polls-matt-drudge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Christopher Hitchens &amp; Political Irresponsibility</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/18/christopher-hitchens-political-irresponsibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video of Laura Ingraham interrogating Christopher Hitchens over his rather weakly supported endorsement of Barack Obama for president. Hitch&#8217;s primary position in this chat is that Obama should be supported because he is &#8220;evolving&#8221; toward support of a more aggressive &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/18/christopher-hitchens-political-irresponsibility/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Folly of Heroes</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/13/the-folly-of-heroes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a day for indignity. Just when I&#8217;d stopped shaking my head at the image of Paul Krugman accepting the Nobel Prize, I read two of my most cherished heroes offering rather embarrassing endorsements for bad things. Christopher Hitchens, always &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/13/the-folly-of-heroes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Changing Themes in the GOP</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/16/changing-themes-in-the-gop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had the radio on driving to get coffee. Rush Limbaugh was denouncing sexism and patriarchal privilege. McCain ad comes on pitching expanding embryonic stem cell research. Boy, haven&#8217;t things changed in the Republican party? For the better, says me.]]></description>
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		<title>McCain and the Electoral College</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/13/mccain-and-the-electoral-college/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For two weeks, as John McCain&#8217;s national polls first rose above Obama and then solidified there, Democrats protested that the popular vote was irrelevant. Look to the state polls said they, in a sensible but amusingly opportunistic argument for the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/13/mccain-and-the-electoral-college/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Palin Democrats</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/12/the-palin-democrats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Reid travels to Mount Clemens, Macomb County Michigan, to talk to white working class female voters. Macomb County should be core Democratic blue country, but it was here that Stanley Greenberg first identified the &#8220;Reagan Democrats&#8221; of the 1980s, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/12/the-palin-democrats/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Déjà Vu Obama</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/12/deja-vu-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s &#8220;new&#8221; tactic to regain the initiative in the election is to portray McCain as out of touch with ordinary Americans. Hmm. Correct me if I&#8217;m wrong, but wasn&#8217;t this the old tactic? Patrician wife, seven houses, price of milk, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/12/deja-vu-obama/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Palinmania and the Stature Gap</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/palinmania-and-the-stature-gap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toby Harnden weighs in with his thoughts on the Palin effect. All interesting, all very astute IMO. Of particular interest is Toby&#8217;s argument that McCain commands enough public respect for his experience and expertise, that he has no concerns about &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/palinmania-and-the-stature-gap/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats Need to Relax</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/democrats-need-to-relax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Panic grips the Hill, with Democrats planning to distance themselves from Obama and/or abandon criticism of McCain. Geez. Snap out of it guys. You have the most compelling presidential candidate you&#8217;ve had since perhaps John F. Kennedy. Almost every conditional &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/democrats-need-to-relax/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>On Bad Ideas</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/on-bad-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seth Weinberger picks up Foreign Policy&#8217;s &#8220;10 Worst Policy Ideas&#8221; for Obama and McCain and adds some commentary. What&#8217;s immediately striking to me is how few objections FP offers to McCain&#8217;s foreign policy proposals. A peculiar thing, if you&#8217;re familiar &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/on-bad-ideas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>John McCain and Sarah Palin: Fairfax Gallery</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/john-mccain-and-sarah-palin-fairfax-gallery/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/john-mccain-and-sarah-palin-fairfax-gallery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ron Hilton caught some great shots at the McCain/Palin rally in Fairfax, Virginia. He was gracious enough to let us post them here for you:]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Plan: Does This Work?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/obamas-plan-does-this-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Associated Press, a sequence of interviews with Democratic leaders has revealed this to be the political plan being recommended to the Obama campaign: 1. Tie the Republican to an unpopular President Bush. 2. Let no charge go &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/obamas-plan-does-this-work/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin&#8217;s Google Bounce, Part II</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/sarah-palins-google-bounce-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/sarah-palins-google-bounce-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I noticed that Sarah Palin had exceeded Joe Biden slightly in Google returns. Understandably, that has now become an avalanche (Biden: 5.6 million &#124; Palin: 22.4 million). Although it plainly doesn&#8217;t exceed John McCain or Barack Obama&#8217;s returns &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/sarah-palins-google-bounce-part-ii/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Rosy Future for Anti-Americanism?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/10/a-rosy-future-for-anti-americanism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Longtime Clinton ally Leon Panetta pronounces Barack Obama &#8220;intimidated&#8221; by Sarah Palin, and lost in a deepening cycle of reactive defense. With McCain now winning a majority of independents and erasing the gender gap, the blood is most definitely in &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/10/a-rosy-future-for-anti-americanism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Limited Government Still Popular</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/limited-government-still-popular/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a new Rasmussen survey 62% of Americans believe encouraging economic growth is more important than reducing income inequality. 51% also say the federal government exerts too much control over our economy as it stands. It would be wise &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/limited-government-still-popular/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>An Outside View of the State of Our Presidential Race</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/07/an-outside-view-of-the-state-of-our-presidential-race/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caroline Glick via Ace of Spades Caroline Glick is an astute observer of our political situation. She is based in Jerusalem. &#8220;McCain&#8217;s strategic grasp of the requirements for a successful presidential race provide an important lesson for policy-makers and political &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/07/an-outside-view-of-the-state-of-our-presidential-race/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reconsidertions of McCain&#8217;s Speech</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/reconsidertions-of-mccains-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Rubin becomes the latest to reconsider the merits of McCain&#8217;s convention acceptance speech. It&#8217;s interesting how many people on the political right are reevaluating it really. Like Jennifer, my own reaction was that it was unremarkable. I told friends &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/reconsidertions-of-mccains-speech/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Do The Opposite</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/do-the-opposite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jihad Watch I have seen a few articles that say something like &#8211; if the left dislikes McCan-Palin so much they must be doing something right. Here is a similar argument about views from the Muslim world. &#8220;whenever your taqiyya-practicing &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/do-the-opposite/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>An Encounter With Political Sexism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/an-encounter-with-political-sexism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many children does John McCain have? It&#8217;s seven including adoptions, but very few seem to know that. Easier question: how many children does Sarah Palin have? Five and I bet you knew that instantly. Welcome to sexism says liberal &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/an-encounter-with-political-sexism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>McCain&#8217;s Color Problem</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/mccains-color-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The atrocious background colors displayed on the silly jumbotron during John McCain&#8217;s convention speech shouldn&#8217;t have been difficult to avoid. As BestWeekEver sadly illustrates, almost anything would have been an improvement. The solid pastel blue and green backgrounds made their &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/mccains-color-problem/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>McCain Funding Advantage</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/05/mccain-funding-advantage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patterico&#8217;s PontificationsThis didn&#8217;t seem possible just a few months ago.]]></description>
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		<title>A Western Vibe Ticket</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/05/a-western-vibe-ticket/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Todd Zywicki, of the Volokh Conspiracy, takes a look at libertarianism in the McCain/Palin ticket and notes a distinct western vibe to the first all-western ticket in our history. He had an interesting observation that I think captures a lot &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/05/a-western-vibe-ticket/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The New Rove</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/04/the-new-rove/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Schwarzenegger&#8217;s former top strategist Steve Schmidt turned John McCain&#8217;s campaign from a dithering defensive wreck, into the aggressive machine that&#8217;s been taking the fight to Obama all summer. Most of all, he&#8217;s the man who finally got John McCain to &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/04/the-new-rove/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Ahead</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/04/reading-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=5212</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the McCain campaign via NRO, the teleprompter had a glitch throughout the entire Palin speech. It continued to roll without pause for applause and thus would have been badly out of sync for her. Had no effect at &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/04/reading-ahead/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Fine Figure of a Republican</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/03/a-fine-figure-of-a-republican/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/03/a-fine-figure-of-a-republican/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title is what Time Magazine labeled New Jersey&#8217;s Senator William Warren Barbour in 1940. The expression takes on a better curve for Sarah Palin, but it fits the occasion of a very partisan and frankly rather phenomenal speech tonight &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/03/a-fine-figure-of-a-republican/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dick Morris on Palin</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/03/dick-morris-on-palin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yep: Understand: Palin is under attack because she was such a good choice. [...] After years of electing plasticized creations of political consultants, we have the chance to vote for a real person with real peoples&#8217; problems. In standing by &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/03/dick-morris-on-palin/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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