<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - campaigns</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/campaigns</link><description>Newsvine - campaigns</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 6 Jun 2013 10:49:32 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:05:37 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>No amount of 'rebranding' will win back young voters to the Republican party </title>
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In reading the report on the GOP and young voters from the College Republicans National Committee, one should keep in mind that they were clearly hamstrung in making recommendations for broadening the party's appeal beyond the "old white guy" bloc by the party's core certainty &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></source><link>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2013/06/06/18797167-no-amount-of-rebranding-will-win-back-young-voters-to-the-republican-party</link><guid>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2013/06/06/18797167-no-amount-of-rebranding-will-win-back-young-voters-to-the-republican-party</guid><category>politics</category><category>gop</category><category>young-voters</category><category>campaigns</category><category>ana-marie-cox</category><category>policies</category><category>obamacare</category><category>crnc</category><category>national-conversation</category><category>values-and-beliefs</category><category>old-white-guy</category><category>party-branding</category><category>college-republicans-national-committee</category><category>broadening-the-partys-appeal</category><category>marketing-and-message</category><pubDate>Thu, 6 Jun 2013 10:44:15 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprah632BC31B-00C2-1298-8F20-EF860938D135.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="240" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprah632BC31B-00C2-1298-8F20-EF860938D135.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="72" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Why Most Folks Do Not Care About Obama &quot;Scandals&quot; | All Things Democrat</title>
<description><![CDATA[Just over a week ago a trifecta of &ldquo;scandals&rdquo; broke upon the Obama  administration.&nbsp; It started when congressional Republicans hoodwinked  ABC into reporting on fabricated emails.&nbsp; Things got worse when news  broke that IRS agents had given more scrutiny to &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Don Overton]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Don Overton]]></source><link>http://don-overton.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/19/18359811-why-most-folks-do-not-care-about-obama-scandals-all-things-democrat</link><guid>http://don-overton.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/19/18359811-why-most-folks-do-not-care-about-obama-scandals-all-things-democrat</guid><category>congress</category><category>conservatives</category><category>politics</category><category>barack-obama</category><category>campaigns</category><category>conspiracy-theories</category><category>the-economy</category><category>sarah-palin</category><category>orly-taitz</category><category>secret-muslim</category><category>stars-of-the-gop</category><category>the-media-and-tagged-filibuster</category><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 23:04:54 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Conservative Video Teaches Children Homosexuality Is Three Times As Dangerous As Smoking (VIDEO)</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Now I&rsquo;ve heard it all from the anti-gay community. &ldquo;Being gay is three times more dangerous than smoking,&rdquo; claims this video, created by&nbsp;Faith 2 Action, a fundamentalist Christian group that regularly engages in anti-choice and anti-gay fear campaigns und&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></source><link>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/03/18035928-conservative-video-teaches-children-homosexuality-is-three-times-as-dangerous-as-smoking-video</link><guid>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/03/18035928-conservative-video-teaches-children-homosexuality-is-three-times-as-dangerous-as-smoking-video</guid><category>health</category><category>cigarettes</category><category>lung-cancer</category><category>dangerous</category><category>homosexual</category><category>campaigns</category><category>anti-gay</category><category>parodies</category><category>anti-choice</category><category>pro-family</category><category>health-dangers</category><category>janet-porter</category><category>faith-2-action</category><category>pro-equality</category><category>fundamentalist-christian-group</category><category>heather-has-two-mommies</category><category>daddys-roomate</category><pubDate>Fri, 3 May 2013 11:56:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprahA421DF7F-9BA8-435D-0F6D-A34385E31B5B.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="207" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprahA421DF7F-9BA8-435D-0F6D-A34385E31B5B.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="62" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Middle class a matter of income, attitude</title>
<description><![CDATA[How do we define "middle class"?&nbsp;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[AmericanMOM-598098]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[AmericanMOM-598098]]></source><link>http://tribalgirl64.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/14/17743357-middle-class-a-matter-of-income-attitude</link><guid>http://tribalgirl64.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/14/17743357-middle-class-a-matter-of-income-attitude</guid><category>economy</category><category>politics</category><category>campaigns</category><category>middle-class</category><category>working-americans</category><category>median-income</category><category>working-families</category><pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 07:21:27 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=tribalgirl642A5F0F03-71C8-F662-7A5B-CCD92CB246AF.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="400" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=tribalgirl642A5F0F03-71C8-F662-7A5B-CCD92CB246AF.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Is Our Republic Ending? 8 Striking Parallels Between the Fall of Rome and U.S. </title>
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Lawrence Lessig's Republic Lost documents the corrosive effect of money on our political process. Lessig persuasively makes the case that we are witnessing the loss of our republican form of government, as politicians increasingly represent those who fund their campaigns, rathe&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></source><link>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/21/16063571-is-our-republic-ending-8-striking-parallels-between-the-fall-of-rome-and-us</link><guid>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/21/16063571-is-our-republic-ending-8-striking-parallels-between-the-fall-of-rome-and-us</guid><category>us-news</category><category>campaigns</category><category>gerrymandering</category><category>lawrence-lessig</category><category>fall-of-rome</category><category>overseas-investments</category><category>business-interests</category><category>lost-republic</category><category>collapse-of-middle-class</category><category>corrosive-effect-of-money</category><category>loss-of-republican-government</category><category>anthony-everitt</category><category>rise-of-rome</category><pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:02:03 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprahA04A45F9-5211-CCB3-98C4-97CA760C53AA.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprahA04A45F9-5211-CCB3-98C4-97CA760C53AA.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Why a Democratic Tea Party Is the Best Hope for Fixing Corrupt Government </title>
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At a talk at UCLA last month, I said that America's growing anti-corruption movement needs to think big, not puny. That we need a fundamental change in the way America funds its campaigns, and that it will take a cross-partisan grassroots movement of outsiders to get the inside&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></source><link>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/07/15749078-why-a-democratic-tea-party-is-the-best-hope-for-fixing-corrupt-government</link><guid>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/07/15749078-why-a-democratic-tea-party-is-the-best-hope-for-fixing-corrupt-government</guid><category>politics</category><category>ucla</category><category>washington-dc</category><category>campaigns</category><category>lawrence-lessig</category><category>tea-party</category><category>anti-corruption</category><category>chris-van-hollen</category><category>david-price</category><category>political-spectrum</category><category>democracy-21</category><category>fundamental-change</category><category>brennan-center</category><category>fred-wertheimer</category><category>fighting-corruption</category><category>congress-needs-to-innovate</category><category>sparking-energy</category><pubDate>Fri, 7 Dec 2012 10:51:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprahA6DB088C-9FD6-2617-778A-DA8FE520DA44.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="90" width="110" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprahA6DB088C-9FD6-2617-778A-DA8FE520DA44.jpg&amp;width=120" width="110" height="90" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Foreign Money Backs GOP – Ran Ads Against Democrats </title>
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The&nbsp;Citizens United decision, giving corporations more access to political speech than everyday citizens, has forever changed the nature of political campaigning within the United States forever. As predicted, the decision did not enable freedom of speech for Americans, bu&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></source><link>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/01/15594376-foreign-money-backs-gop-ran-ads-against-democrats</link><guid>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/01/15594376-foreign-money-backs-gop-ran-ads-against-democrats</guid><category>politics</category><category>saudi-arabia</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>corporations</category><category>campaigns</category><category>freedom-of-speech</category><category>presidential-elections</category><category>aramco</category><category>american-petroleum-institute</category><category>united-states-politics</category><category>citizen-united</category><category>freigners</category><category>tofiq-al-gabsani</category><pubDate>Sat, 1 Dec 2012 12:43:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprah452BE059-EA48-AFEE-591B-71AFCFA72621.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="150" width="150" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprah452BE059-EA48-AFEE-591B-71AFCFA72621.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Why Big Money Didn't Win</title>
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There have been numerous diaries here on DK about how the hundreds of millions spent by Super PAC's and the campaigns this past election had so little influence on the outcome. It's not that they had no impact. In fact some of the money spent had a big influence on the outcome &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></source><link>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/25/15425920-why-big-money-didnt-win</link><guid>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/25/15425920-why-big-money-didnt-win</guid><category>politics</category><category>campaigns</category><category>facebook</category><category>social-media</category><category>venture-capitalist</category><category>predatory</category><category>national-election</category><category>twitter</category><category>big-money</category><category>2012-election</category><category>president-obama</category><category>polling-day</category><category>super-pac</category><category>white-house-winner</category><pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 11:00:33 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprahC22E5354-9515-C115-FC5F-FF956C16C53A.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="469" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprahC22E5354-9515-C115-FC5F-FF956C16C53A.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="141" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>A Positve Aspect of the Deluge of Negative Political Ads</title>
<description><![CDATA[I have become so disgusted with the amount, quality and repetition of political ads that when I found a story that said there was a positive aspect to them I simply had to read it.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert in Ohio]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Robert in Ohio]]></source><link>http://robertinohio.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/08/14294141-a-positve-aspect-of-the-deluge-of-negative-political-ads</link><guid>http://robertinohio.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/08/14294141-a-positve-aspect-of-the-deluge-of-negative-political-ads</guid><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>romney</category><category>campaigns</category><category>attck-ads</category><pubDate>Mon, 8 Oct 2012 14:09:59 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Report: Foreign Nationals Donating to Obama Campaign: Campaign also accused of soliciting foreign donation in groundbreaking new Government Accountability Institute report |</title>
<description><![CDATA[A groundbreaking new report raises serious questions as to whether President Barack Obama&rsquo;s reelection campaign is knowingly, and illegally, accepting and soliciting donations from foreign nationals.
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The report suggests there is compelling evidence to suggest that the&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[DBE928]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[DBE928]]></source><link>http://dbe928.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/08/14293309-report-foreign-nationals-donating-to-obama-campaign-campaign-also-accused-of-soliciting-foreign-donation-in-groundbreaking-new-government-accountability-institute-report</link><guid>http://dbe928.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/08/14293309-report-foreign-nationals-donating-to-obama-campaign-campaign-also-accused-of-soliciting-foreign-donation-in-groundbreaking-new-government-accountability-institute-report</guid><category>politics</category><category>donations</category><category>obama</category><category>campaigns</category><pubDate>Mon, 8 Oct 2012 13:14:04 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=dbe92806F7D163-615C-9EA3-69E1-AC6A70E1CB6D.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="150" width="150" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=dbe92806F7D163-615C-9EA3-69E1-AC6A70E1CB6D.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Review &amp; Outlook: The Obama Matrix </title>
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The former Governor sounded reasonable and pragmatic, and some pundits are now claiming that he changed his platform or that he is trying to dump GOP "extremist" ballast. He didn't and he doesn't have any. He described his center-right reforms truthfully. The Obama cheerleaders&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[DBE928]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[DBE928]]></source><link>http://dbe928.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/05/14247068-review-outlook-the-obama-matrix</link><guid>http://dbe928.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/05/14247068-review-outlook-the-obama-matrix</guid><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>romney</category><category>campaigns</category><pubDate>Fri, 5 Oct 2012 19:14:05 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=dbe92844C5D6D6-CEE6-50DB-0505-AC9BE3C3478F.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="174" width="262" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=dbe92844C5D6D6-CEE6-50DB-0505-AC9BE3C3478F.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>The EAGLE Party: Goals &amp; Issues Part 2</title>
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As a result of publishing the first set of ideas to help fix what has gone wrong with our government, more ideas were generated and added. &nbsp;This is an extension of Part I, but with new and different ideas that, once refined, could help make the U.S. Government more of a gov&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce-1628250]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Bruce-1628250]]></source><link>http://bruce-1628250.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/25/14102005-the-eagle-party-goals-issues-part-2</link><guid>http://bruce-1628250.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/25/14102005-the-eagle-party-goals-issues-part-2</guid><category>america</category><category>president</category><category>campaigns</category><category>debates</category><category>not-news</category><category>vice-president</category><category>eagle-party</category><pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:59:03 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=Bruce-1628250D9D4B6F6-C0C6-8311-3F36-93B61819AA14.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="450" width="359" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=Bruce-1628250D9D4B6F6-C0C6-8311-3F36-93B61819AA14.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="150" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Ask the experts: a changing voter electorate | Need to Know | PBS</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brenda Lee Cosse']]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Brenda Lee Cosse']]></source><link>http://brendaleecosse.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/22/14024898-ask-the-experts-a-changing-voter-electorate-need-to-know-pbs</link><guid>http://brendaleecosse.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/22/14024898-ask-the-experts-a-changing-voter-electorate-need-to-know-pbs</guid><category>georgia</category><category>minority</category><category>election</category><category>immigrants</category><category>america</category><category>pbs</category><category>politics</category><category>vote</category><category>change</category><category>citizenship</category><category>washington-dc</category><category>campaigns</category><category>the-constitution</category><category>majority</category><category>clarkston</category><category>swing-voters</category><category>swing-states</category><category>votets</category><pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2012 05:59:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=BrendaLeeCosseEFB90080-336A-3461-F90C-F509B22B3B07.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="1" width="1" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=BrendaLeeCosseEFB90080-336A-3461-F90C-F509B22B3B07.jpg&amp;width=120" width="1" height="1" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>The Campaign Trail Not Chosen</title>
<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;.......
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I ook the one less traveked by, 
And that has made all the difference.
I am sure that everyone recognizes the end of my favorite poem by Robert Frost. I have always taken the poem to mean that we should follow our instincts, be&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert in Ohio]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Robert in Ohio]]></source><link>http://robertinohio.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/10/13785730-the-campaign-trail-not-chosen</link><guid>http://robertinohio.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/10/13785730-the-campaign-trail-not-chosen</guid><category>politics</category><category>political</category><category>campaigns</category><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:47:26 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=RobertinOhioABAA9800-341F-CD79-3C46-57866B26BE9A.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=RobertinOhioABAA9800-341F-CD79-3C46-57866B26BE9A.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Why Political Conventions Are Over: Costly Events Don't Win Campaigns | Swampland | TIME.com</title>
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Remind me: Why are we doing this?That was the question bouncing around in my head after I spent my first 24 hours in Tampa on increasingly soggy ground. The twin horrors of Tropical Storm Isaac and the Nielsen ratings have already combined to wipe out Monday night&rsquo;s plann&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[CL1]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[CL1]]></source><link>http://cl1.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/27/13513360-why-political-conventions-are-over-costly-events-dont-win-campaigns-swampland-timecom</link><guid>http://cl1.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/27/13513360-why-political-conventions-are-over-costly-events-dont-win-campaigns-swampland-timecom</guid><category>politics</category><category>political</category><category>campaigns</category><category>conventions</category><pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:03:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=CL13FC11133-0224-3292-34E4-0CAD3E3E0A7D.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="133" width="200" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=CL13FC11133-0224-3292-34E4-0CAD3E3E0A7D.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Interview: Romney blasts Obama for waging a 'vituperative' campaign.'</title>
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Mitt Romney calls campaign attacks by President Obama and his allies "vituperative" and "vicious" and "absurd" and "sad." Also: Effective.
"I do think that the president's campaign of personal vilification and demonization probably draws some people away from me," Romney says &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[DBE928]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[DBE928]]></source><link>http://dbe928.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/26/13492457-interview-romney-blasts-obama-for-waging-a-vituperative-campaign</link><guid>http://dbe928.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/26/13492457-interview-romney-blasts-obama-for-waging-a-vituperative-campaign</guid><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>romney</category><category>campaigns</category><pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2012 23:56:35 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=dbe92844F1F7B7-78A1-6B31-F351-A05CA848D263.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="184" width="245" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=dbe92844F1F7B7-78A1-6B31-F351-A05CA848D263.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="91" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>The political parties' tough sales job - CBS News</title>
<description><![CDATA[Are we happy with the choices we have for leadership in this country?]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[AmericanMOM-598098]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[AmericanMOM-598098]]></source><link>http://tribalgirl64.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/26/13488957-the-political-parties-tough-sales-job-cbs-news</link><guid>http://tribalgirl64.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/26/13488957-the-political-parties-tough-sales-job-cbs-news</guid><category>democrats</category><category>politics</category><category>mitt-romney</category><category>campaigns</category><category>2012-election</category><category>president-obama</category><category>bob-schieffer-bob-schieffer</category><category>republicans-candidates</category><pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:04:27 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=tribalgirl64588CF969-6B2B-0BC1-27D8-2518B3A830C1.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="183" width="244" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=tribalgirl64588CF969-6B2B-0BC1-27D8-2518B3A830C1.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>'Do You Trust Politicians?' </title>
<description><![CDATA[
Over the home stretch of this election, I&rsquo;m going to visit a number of swing states to gauge the prospects of the two major party presidential candidates.
Here in New Hampshire &ndash; once a securely Republican state &mdash; the presidential contest pits Democrats strug&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></source><link>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/21/13395457-do-you-trust-politicians</link><guid>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/21/13395457-do-you-trust-politicians</guid><category>democrats</category><category>politics</category><category>university</category><category>republicans</category><category>new-hampshire</category><category>campaigns</category><category>presidential-candidates</category><category>swing-states</category><category>andrew-smith</category><category>political-scientist</category><category>major-parties</category><pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:17:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprah78291825-8AC3-121A-7448-CEC6E7FED4FA.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="75" width="75" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprah78291825-8AC3-121A-7448-CEC6E7FED4FA.jpg&amp;width=120" width="75" height="75" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Energy Independence Is Nation's Most Elusive Technological Goal | Climate Action</title>
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&ldquo;Let us set as our national goal, in the spirit of Apollo, with the determination of the Manhattan Project, that by the end of this decade we will have developed the potential to meet our own energy needs without depending on any foreign energy source.&rdquo; - President &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fed up with Republicans]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Fed up with Republicans]]></source><link>http://fed-up-with-republicans.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/17/13343267-energy-independence-is-nations-most-elusive-technological-goal-climate-action</link><guid>http://fed-up-with-republicans.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/17/13343267-energy-independence-is-nations-most-elusive-technological-goal-climate-action</guid><category>bush</category><category>elections</category><category>clinton</category><category>gop</category><category>republicans</category><category>science</category><category>obama</category><category>campaigns</category><category>tea-party</category><category>bush41</category><category>reagan-carter</category><category>ford-nixon</category><pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2012 03:12:28 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=fed-up-with-republicans6BA48ABF-5B19-EFF9-7F0D-8A66C701C981.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="200" width="200" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=fed-up-with-republicans6BA48ABF-5B19-EFF9-7F0D-8A66C701C981.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Obama Camp To Romney: Let&amp;#8217;s Make A Deal On Tax Returns | TPM2012</title>
<description><![CDATA[TPM:

President Obama&rsquo;s team is offering Mitt Romney a deal on taxes: Publicly release five years of returns, and the Obama campaign will drop its insistence for additional tax information............
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colonial82]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colonial82]]></source><link>http://colonial82.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/17/13334498-obama-camp-to-romney-lets-make-a-deal-on-tax-returns-tpm2012</link><guid>http://colonial82.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/17/13334498-obama-camp-to-romney-lets-make-a-deal-on-tax-returns-tpm2012</guid><category>politics</category><category>president</category><category>gop</category><category>tax-returns</category><category>2012</category><category>mitt-romney</category><category>republican</category><category>democrat</category><category>campaigns</category><category>tpm</category><category>2012-election</category><category>president-obama</category><pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:25:22 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=colonial8270FDA10D-01BE-086F-529D-111142BD9A79.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="150" width="150" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=colonial8270FDA10D-01BE-086F-529D-111142BD9A79.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Romney cites incident of helping campaign contributor – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Mitt Romney on Tuesday mentioned an example in which he, as Massachusetts governor, provided assistance to a campaign donor, but argued it was not the same act of "favoritism" he now accuses President Barack Obama of committing in the Oval Office.
Asked in an interview with CN&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fed up with Republicans]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Fed up with Republicans]]></source><link>http://fed-up-with-republicans.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/18/12821660-romney-cites-incident-of-helping-campaign-contributor-cnn-political-ticker-cnncom-blogs</link><guid>http://fed-up-with-republicans.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/18/12821660-romney-cites-incident-of-helping-campaign-contributor-cnn-political-ticker-cnncom-blogs</guid><category>taxes</category><category>politics</category><category>romney</category><category>campaigns</category><category>massachusets</category><category>favoritism</category><category>political-pay-off</category><category>campaign-contributors</category><category>qid-pro-quo</category><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 03:32:39 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=fed-up-with-republicansF663AA6B-67D6-C731-122F-C01ED76D7B95.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="225" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=fed-up-with-republicansF663AA6B-67D6-C731-122F-C01ED76D7B95.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>The Southern Strategy Myth and the Lost Majority | RedState</title>
<description><![CDATA[
But one of the historical narratives that Trende covers in depth is of particular interest because it remains a crucial part of partisan mythology today: the enduring myth of the Southern Strategy. On the occasion of Mitt Romney&rsquo;s address to the NAACP, it is worth revisit&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Socrates1]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Socrates1]]></source><link>http://socrates1.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/15/12751868-the-southern-strategy-myth-and-the-lost-majority-redstate</link><guid>http://socrates1.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/15/12751868-the-southern-strategy-myth-and-the-lost-majority-redstate</guid><category>elections</category><category>politics</category><category>nixon</category><category>kennedy</category><category>republican-party</category><category>racism</category><category>black</category><category>reagan</category><category>campaigns</category><category>myth</category><category>new-deal</category><category>southern-democrats</category><category>equal-protection-clause</category><category>norther-black-americans</category><category>al-minority-gop</category><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:19:47 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>American Corporate Fascism the New Ideology of Governance</title>
<description><![CDATA[When members of the Middle Class donate to a politician they rarely participate in writing the legislation for the politicians they support. However, when very wealthy corporatist donate and fund campaigns with millions of dollars their teams of lawyers and lobbyists help design &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Truth--Seeker]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Truth--Seeker]]></source><link>http://truth--seeker.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/23/12378129-american-corporate-fascism-the-new-ideology-of-governance</link><guid>http://truth--seeker.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/23/12378129-american-corporate-fascism-the-new-ideology-of-governance</guid><category>elections</category><category>politics</category><category>democracy</category><category>campaigns</category><category>libertarianism</category><category>middle-class</category><category>global-economy</category><category>free-market</category><category>corporate-fascism</category><category>mass-production</category><category>mass-consumption</category><category>job-creation</category><category>consumer-demand</category><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 02:55:04 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Pants on Fire Romney ~~~ Doing What Needs to Get Done to be Elected</title>
<description><![CDATA[Candidates claim the right to make any boast or accusation as long as there's a kernel of veracity in there somewhere.
Even by this lax standard, Romney too often fails. Not to put too fine a point on it, he lies. Quite a bit.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[jade-log]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[jade-log]]></source><link>http://jade-log.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/29/11942503-pants-on-fire-romney-doing-what-needs-to-get-done-to-be-elected</link><guid>http://jade-log.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/29/11942503-pants-on-fire-romney-doing-what-needs-to-get-done-to-be-elected</guid><category>politics</category><category>bill-clinton</category><category>mitt-romney</category><category>lies</category><category>cbo</category><category>campaigns</category><category>truth</category><category>heritage</category><category>mid-east</category><category>omb</category><category>osama-bin-ladin</category><category>exceptionalism</category><category>stimulus</category><category>w-bush</category><category>pres-obama</category><category>congressional-cons</category><category>fed-spending</category><category>global-apologies</category><pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 22:04:05 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=jade-logFF9A1382-53CE-EB36-7927-7043FB3D563D.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="198" width="255" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=jade-logFF9A1382-53CE-EB36-7927-7043FB3D563D.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="94" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Line by line: How an ad uses sleight-of-hand to distort facts on stimulus</title>
<description><![CDATA[
A new Americans for Prosperity ad is one of the sneakiest we&rsquo;ve seen this year. It weaves tidbits of truth into an artful narrative that distorts the truth about the economic stimulus.
We&rsquo;ve checked three claims from the ad, finding them Mostly False, False and Pan&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[newbroom]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[newbroom]]></source><link>http://newbroom.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/04/11543013-line-by-line-how-an-ad-uses-sleight-of-hand-to-distort-facts-on-stimulus</link><guid>http://newbroom.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/04/11543013-line-by-line-how-an-ad-uses-sleight-of-hand-to-distort-facts-on-stimulus</guid><category>elections</category><category>politics</category><category>gop</category><category>democracy</category><category>voice</category><category>campaigns</category><category>deceit</category><category>smear</category><category>inundate</category><category>koch-bros</category><pubDate>Fri, 4 May 2012 20:52:05 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>