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	<title>The Prez Fight</title>
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	<description>The latest on the race for the presidency</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>They&#8217;re back (none too soon)</title>
		<link>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/prezfight/2008/07/16/theyre-back-none-too-soon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob von Sternberg</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The folks at JibJab, who made a considerable satiric online splash during the 2004 presidential race, have just posted their first take on this year&#8217;s campaign. It features the candidates and a cast of hundreds singing a rewrite of &#8220;The Times They Are a-Changin&#8217;.&#8221; It&#8217;s worth a look.



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		<title>McCain, Viagra and birth control on the airwaves</title>
		<link>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/prezfight/2008/07/16/mccain-viagra-and-birth-control-on-the-airwaves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob von Sternberg</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood has taken John McCain to task over a bump in the road his Straight Talk Express hit last week over the question of whether health insurance plans that cover the cost of Viagra also should be required to cover the cost of female contraceptives. 
Video of the exchange between McCain and a female [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP veepstakes: Is there an echo in here?</title>
		<link>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/prezfight/2008/06/30/gop-veepstakes-is-there-an-echo-in-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob von Sternberg</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Tim Pawlenty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s either an amazing coincidence, or the talking points have been going out to some of the presumptive short-listers being considered by John McCain as his vice-presidential running mate.
Over the weekend, Rob Portman, a former member of Congress from Ohio, said flatly of his prospects, &#8220;I don&#8217;t expect to be asked, honestly.&#8221;
Back on June 18, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain-Pawlenty &#8216;08, one more time</title>
		<link>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/prezfight/2008/06/20/mccain-pawlenty-08-one-more-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob von Sternberg</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post&#8217;s political blogger, Chris Cillizza, has been one of the most persistent of the Great Mentioners, placing Gov. Tim Pawlenty on John McCain&#8217;s short list of vice-presidential running mates. (Never mind the fact that McCain said Thursday after his plane landed in Minnesota that he really doesn&#8217;t have a short list.)
Anyway, Cillizza laid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s 1st national ad (sans Minnesota)</title>
		<link>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/prezfight/2008/06/20/obamas-1st-national-ad-sans-minnesota/</link>
		<comments>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/prezfight/2008/06/20/obamas-1st-national-ad-sans-minnesota/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob von Sternberg</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When Barack Obama launched his first advertisement of the general election campaign this week, it was notable where his strategists decided to air it &#8212; and more to the point in this supposedly purple state, where they opted not to.
The Democratic Party&#8217;s likely presidential nominee is running the ad in a dozen battleground states, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain odds and ends&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/prezfight/2008/06/20/mccain-odds-and-ends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob von Sternberg</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the enduring (and endlessly frustrating) limitations of the dead-tree version of this newspaper is the finite amount of space we&#8217;ve got in which to give you the news. No problem here, though. So here are some bits and pieces about John McCain&#8217;s visit to the Twin Cities Thursday, his first campaign stop of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s rumor buster launched online</title>
		<link>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/prezfight/2008/06/12/obamas-rumor-buster-launched-online/</link>
		<comments>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/prezfight/2008/06/12/obamas-rumor-buster-launched-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob von Sternberg</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Determined not to be Swift-boated as John Kerry was four years ago, Barack Obama&#8217;s campaign unveiled a new website today that bluntly takes on unsubstantiated rumors and innuendo that have dogged the candidate for months. Among them: He&#8217;s a secret Muslim, he won&#8217;t recite the Pledge of Allegiance, his wife used the word &#8220;whitey.&#8221;
Obama is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ron Paul&#8217;s crashing the GOP&#8217;s party</title>
		<link>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/prezfight/2008/06/11/ron-pauls-crashing-the-gops-party/</link>
		<comments>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/prezfight/2008/06/11/ron-pauls-crashing-the-gops-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob von Sternberg</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Conventions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Unable (so far) to secure a speaking slot at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, still-unbowed GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul is staging a counter-convention of his own across the river on the convention&#8217;s second day.
The 10-term congressman from Texas still has millions of dollars in campaign contributions to burn and a fervent following, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheney&#8217;s role in the McCain campaign</title>
		<link>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/prezfight/2008/06/11/cheneys-role-in-the-mccain-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/prezfight/2008/06/11/cheneys-role-in-the-mccain-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob von Sternberg</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of Vice President Dick Cheney&#8217;s under-the-radar fundraising trip to Minnesota on Monday, it&#8217;s interesting to speculate about what role he may have in trying to get John McCain elected president. Well, the Politico website has published a piece wallowing in just that kind of speculation. It&#8217;s worth a read.
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		<title>Obama=Reagan redux? It&#8217;s back&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/prezfight/2008/06/10/obamareagan-redux-its-back/</link>
		<comments>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/prezfight/2008/06/10/obamareagan-redux-its-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob von Sternberg</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Barack Obama has won the Democratic nomination, a persistent meme of the presidential campaign has resurfaced, equating his candidacy with that of Ronald Reagan, the last truly insurgent candidate to win his party&#8217;s nomination. 
Much has been made of their stylistic similarities, their cool, camera-ready styles, how each decisively broke with their party&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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