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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; Republican</title>
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		<title>The New Republicans</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/the-new-republicans/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/the-new-republicans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relaunch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Lee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[student]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The New Republicans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Steven Lee relaunches his fine student political site The New Republicans.]]></description>
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		<title>Words in Congress</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/19/words-in-congress/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/19/words-in-congress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[congressional record]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Sessions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[party politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past sixty days, Harry Reid has been the most vocal person in the congressional record. The top two words he has used are &#8220;Republican&#8221; and &#8220;Republicans.&#8221; Republican Jeff Sessions has been the second most vocal person, using the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/19/words-in-congress/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>John Elway for Senate</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/17/john-elway-for-senate/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/17/john-elway-for-senate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2004]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2006]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservative]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Department of the Interior]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[illinois]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Elway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Ditka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rumor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[senate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With Obama tapping Ken Salazar for the Interior Department, rumor has it conservative John Elway may step forward to run for his Senate seat in Colorado. This rumor &#8211;similar to one for Mike Ditka in Illinois&#8211; has come and gone &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/17/john-elway-for-senate/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Banning the BCS</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/11/banning-the-bcs/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/11/banning-the-bcs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aggies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BCS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college football]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Barton]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[playoff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Aggie congressman Joe Barton has introduced a bill to abolish the BCS regime and mandate the creation of a playoff system for college football. I quietly place all my hostilities to government intervention in sports into a shoebox for this &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/11/banning-the-bcs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rootless</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/rootless/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/rootless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[200]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[libertarian]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Allyn Root]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sure, it&#8217;s still only December 2008, but Wayne Allyn Root, the millionaire Republican Libertarian, is already running for president in 2012. I was seriously amused by some of the slanderous assessments posted by former Root employees Libertarian Peacenik found.]]></description>
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		<title>Leader of the Opposition</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/leader-of-the-opposition/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/leader-of-the-opposition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1976]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Palin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whilst most elected Republicans are still preoccupied in pledging to work with (or for) the Obama administration, Sarah Palin isn&#8217;t having any of it. This is significant criticism, because it is vitally important that a Republican leader emerges who can &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/leader-of-the-opposition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Deep Political Time</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/deep-political-time/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/deep-political-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1932]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[antiquity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[HP Lovecraft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Hutton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Playfair]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[popular vote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidential elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When James Hutton, the father of modern geology, took his friend John Playfair to look at some stratified sedimentary rock, and Playfair realized that he was gazing into a chemical abyss recording the passage of hundreds of millions of years, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/deep-political-time/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Third Party Personality Disorder</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/05/the-third-party-personality-disorder/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/05/the-third-party-personality-disorder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libertarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bailout strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bob barr]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[voter behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found myself complaining to a Libertarian colleague of mine today (note the capital &#8216;L&#8217;), about the deplorable political consensus that has emerged on the bailout strategy for economic resuscitation. The bipartisan policy is a ghastly trifecta of the ineffective, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/05/the-third-party-personality-disorder/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Trinity of Republican Decline</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/31/a-trinity-of-republican-decline/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/31/a-trinity-of-republican-decline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Henry Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linda Ketner]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[social conservatism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could a liberal lesbian rights activist actually win South Carolina&#8217;s 1st congressional district? Sure looks possible, as Linda Ketner has closed to within 5 in her aggressive challenge to incumbent Rep. Henry Brown. Of interest, Ketner is also a member &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/31/a-trinity-of-republican-decline/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hacks &amp; Hackers</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/17/hacks-hackers/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/17/hacks-hackers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dirty tricks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[email]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin&#8217;s personal email account gets hacked by an anonymous operative and Farhad Manjoo blames Palin for &#8220;Rovian tactics.&#8221; Indifference to irony isn&#8217;t a new thing in Palin reporting, but there&#8217;s a certain amusement about the event in liberal circles &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/17/hacks-hackers/">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>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
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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>Immunizing Sarah Palin</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/08/immunizing-sarah-palin/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/08/immunizing-sarah-palin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Tom LeGro) Christopher Hitchens notices a pattern with anti-Palin rumors: their troubling tendency to turn out highly exaggerated or entirely fabricated, in a very short turn. [A]s often as I have forwarded some alarming e-mail about her from a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/08/immunizing-sarah-palin/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Palin Hated by Alaskan Republicans</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/04/palin-hated-by-alaskan-republicans/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/04/palin-hated-by-alaskan-republicans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chronicle of the ConspiracyThis is a good thing. She fights waste wherever she finds it.]]></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>
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		<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>Making McCain&#8217;s Platform</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/01/making-mccains-platform/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/01/making-mccains-platform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bit of a departure from the Bush/Cheney experience in 2000 and 2004.]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Palin Hysteria Expands, Degenerates</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/anti-palin-hysteria-expands-degenerates/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/anti-palin-hysteria-expands-degenerates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m beginning to sense that anti-Palin hysteria is building toward a collective psychological meltdown of truly epic proportions on the Democratic side of our political divide. Today, Democratic consultant Dan Conley angrily pushed us a little further to the brink &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/anti-palin-hysteria-expands-degenerates/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>An Unacceptable Acceptance</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/30/an-unacceptable-acceptance/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/30/an-unacceptable-acceptance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, here is an embarrassing prospect. It seems the Republican leadership may boycott the Republican convention in Minnesota, for fear of a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. The top elected Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, was already boycotting. But now &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/30/an-unacceptable-acceptance/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin &#8211; Kuwait Gallery</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-kuwait-gallery/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-kuwait-gallery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here at ASHC we get an enormous amount of traffic from people looking for Sarah Palin photographs. My friend Jason over on postpolitical says he&#8217;s experiencing the same phenomenon on his blog, and we took to calling it the hunt &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-kuwait-gallery/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Poor Pawlenty</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/30/poor-pawlenty/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/30/poor-pawlenty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hard sacrifices of the unselected.]]></description>
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		<title>Palin Poll</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/30/palin-poll/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/30/palin-poll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rasmussen&#8217;s first Palin poll suggests that while many Americans still need more information to make a judgment, she&#8217;s already made a superior impression to Biden on the day of his selection by Obama. Of enormous significance is the finding that &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/30/palin-poll/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Running Aground Over Sarah Palin</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/running-aground-over-sarah-palin/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/running-aground-over-sarah-palin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Begala laments the fact that McCain didn&#8217;t select a vice presidential candidate who is more traditional, old, boring, uninspiring&#8230;in essence, an ossified agent of the establishment, like Joe Biden for instance. Well, he doesn&#8217;t quite phrase it that way, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/running-aground-over-sarah-palin/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Sudden Reunification</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/a-sudden-reunification/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/a-sudden-reunification/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now even James Dobson, who famously refused to vote Republican this year on social conservative grounds, has endorsed McCain thanks to Palin.]]></description>
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		<title>The Rise of the Governess</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/the-rise-of-the-governess/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/the-rise-of-the-governess/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way back in February 2007, when I was still writing for postpolitical, an obscure little blog popped up pitching Sarah Palin for the Vice Presidency. At the time few were that familiar with Sarah&#8217;s record or wise enough to predict &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/the-rise-of-the-governess/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Please, Please, Please, Let it be Palin</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/please-please-please-let-it-be-palin/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/please-please-please-let-it-be-palin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thankfully Pawlenty is out, Romney is out, and Matt Drudge is dropping a big tease that it might be Sarah Palin for Vice President after all. I personally would forgive McCain three decades of criticism if he selected her. It &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/please-please-please-let-it-be-palin/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Sanford for Veep?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/20/mark-sanford-for-veep/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/20/mark-sanford-for-veep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jason notices that a significant name is missing from the speaking lineup at the Republican convention. The libertarian South Carolina governor and longtime McCain backer would be an unexpected and welcome selection.]]></description>
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		<title>End of Presidency Job Approvals</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/end-of-presidency-job-approvals/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/end-of-presidency-job-approvals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Approval ratings for recent presidents at the end of their final terms. Bush will presumably end somewhere in Carter&#8217;s 1980 territory. (About.com) Lest that depress McCain supporters, such measures can of course be highly misleading in predicting general election outcomes &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/end-of-presidency-job-approvals/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Targeting the &#8220;Original Maverick&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/targeting-the-original-maverick/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/targeting-the-original-maverick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: WBEZ Chicago Public Radio &#124; site) Obama&#8217;s newish McSame style attack ad mocking McCain&#8217;s &#8220;original maverick&#8221; slogan is fairly good. As Ken Wheaton notes, all the time McCain had to spend trying to convince the GOP he was a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/targeting-the-original-maverick/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bobby Begins</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/05/jindal-begins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rumors have it that Bobby Jindal will deliver the keynote address at the RNCC. Shlok Vaidya thinks the GOP intends to position Jindal for 2012, the way the Democrats managed Obama in 2004. Interesting and possible, although such things are &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/05/jindal-begins/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ignorance &amp; Pride</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/05/ignorance-pride/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama might be giving McCain more ammunition for the contention he is a condescending elitist. Denouncing Republican attacks on his energy plan as lies, he countered that &#8220;these guys take pride in being ignorant.&#8221; Huffington Post and the leftblogs are &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/05/ignorance-pride/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Suppose He Wins&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/05/suppose-he-wins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Dan Bennett) Dick Morris writes that it&#8217;s beginning to look like McCain can win (if he follows his advice of course). Also, McCain has had an (insignificant) advantage with leaners in the Rasmussen tracking poll for two days now. &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/05/suppose-he-wins/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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