<?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 - why-because</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/why-because</link><description>Newsvine - why-because</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:24:32 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 20:22:02 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Finding a job may be getting easier, but might cost you more.</title>
<description><![CDATA[Do you want the good news, or the bad news first?]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jerred McKee]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jerred McKee]]></source><link>http://jerred-mckee.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/19/17018443-finding-a-job-may-be-getting-easier-but-might-cost-you-more</link><guid>http://jerred-mckee.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/19/17018443-finding-a-job-may-be-getting-easier-but-might-cost-you-more</guid><category>politics</category><category>robert-murray</category><category>why-because</category><category>john-schnatter</category><category>american-coal</category><category>affordable-care-act</category><category>papa-john8217-s</category><category>zane-tankel</category><category>utah-energy</category><category>if-corporations</category><pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:24:31 +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=jerred-mckeeEC9B48C8-7D59-E56F-C2ED-B9A6298BFD83.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="219" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=jerred-mckeeEC9B48C8-7D59-E56F-C2ED-B9A6298BFD83.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="66" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Applebee&amp;#039;s CEO Threatens To Fire Employees And Freeze Hiring Because Of Obamacare</title>
<description><![CDATA[Zane Tankel, the CEO of Applebee&rsquo;s New York Franchise, Apple-Metro, is so dedicated to not spending money on his employees that he&rsquo;s refusing to hire anyone new. Why? Because he might have to provide them health care.
Under the Affordable Care Act, a business of 50 p&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roy Batty]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Roy Batty]]></source><link>http://roybatty.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/09/15056617-applebees-ceo-threatens-to-fire-employees-and-freeze-hiring-because-of-obamacare</link><guid>http://roybatty.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/09/15056617-applebees-ceo-threatens-to-fire-employees-and-freeze-hiring-because-of-obamacare</guid><category>business</category><category>new-york</category><category>employment</category><category>why-because</category><category>obamacare</category><category>health-next</category><pubDate>Fri, 9 Nov 2012 22:38:01 +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=roybattyCDA2C17E-81B1-B7D8-1B0C-6E42708A507E.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="170" width="230" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=roybattyCDA2C17E-81B1-B7D8-1B0C-6E42708A507E.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="89" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>ROVE VS FOX NEWS CHANNEL</title>
<description><![CDATA[Fox News Channel heard a dissenting voice when it called pivotal battleground state Ohio &#8212; and the election &#8212; for President Barack Obama: its own contributor, Karl Rove.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/06/14967571-rove-vs-fox-news-channel</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/06/14967571-rove-vs-fox-news-channel</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>us</category><category>new-york</category><category>white-house</category><category>election</category><category>politics</category><category>new-jersey</category><category>north-korea</category><category>watch</category><category>united-states</category><category>associated-press</category><category>ronald-reagan</category><category>karl-rove</category><category>new-yorkers</category><category>north-carolina</category><category>las-vegas</category><category>west-virginia</category><category>mitt-romney</category><category>san-diego</category><category>winter-olympics</category><category>new-mexico</category><category>east-coast</category><category>top-white-house</category><category>south-carolina</category><category>barack-obama</category><category>jesus-christ</category><category>election-day</category><category>senate-democrats</category><category>us-news</category><category>middle-eastern</category><category>associated-press'</category><category>fox-news-channel</category><category>ohio-republican</category><category>joe-lieberman</category><category>scottie-pippen</category><category>bob-casey</category><category>joe-biden</category><category>jersey-shore</category><category>latter-day-saints</category><category>brigham-young-university</category><category>sean-hannity</category><category>electoral-college</category><category>ted-nugent</category><category>july-fourth</category><category>pew-internet</category><category>joe-donnelly</category><category>republican-mitt-romney</category><category>google-doodle</category><category>paul-ryan</category><category>todd-akin</category><category>michelle-obama</category><category>dakota-county</category><category>david-axelrod</category><category>many-americans</category><category>mccormick-place</category><category>chris-murphy</category><category>why-because</category><category>joe-biden"</category><category>democrat-bill-clinton</category><category>cleveland-hopkins-international-airport</category><category>david-plouffe</category><category>but-obama</category><category>congressman-ryan</category><category>liz-sidoti</category><category>scott-brown</category><category>election-watch</category><category>lady-gaga</category><category>former-chicago-bulls</category><category>chris-christie</category><category>judy-blume</category><category>training-center</category><category>two-north-korean</category><category>edison-research</category><category>actress-kate-walsh</category><category>house-speaker-john</category><category>matt-rourke</category><category>democrat-elizabeth-warren</category><category>ap-television-writer-david-bauder</category><category>janna-ryan</category><category>tobin-ryan</category><category>comedian-jimmy-kimmel</category><category>superstorm-sandy</category><category>democratic-district</category><category>annette-debona</category><category>steve-harvey-morning-show"</category><category>wake-county-firearms-education</category><category>while-paul-ryan</category><category>on-new-york-city</category><category>actor-rapper-ice-t</category><category>anthony-morrone</category><category>mitt-romney-paul-ryan-republican</category><category>benjamin-franklin-elementary-school</category><category>boston-convention</category><category>elisa-kennedy</category><category>west-virginia-gop</category><category>some-election-day</category><category>new-jersey;</category><category>kevin-bonnaud</category><category>do-you-like-me-now"</category><category>boston-convention-center</category><category>steve-peoples</category><pubDate>Tue, 6 Nov 2012 13:25:07 +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=12656936-5b93-467f-8338-3b73410535da.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="229" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=12656936-5b93-467f-8338-3b73410535da.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="69" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Voters enter the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in Cleveland on the last day of early voting in Ohio Monday, Nov. 5, 2012. About 1.6 million people have voted early in Ohio. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6143efcb-541c-4402-9f26-ad2d306dce6d.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6143efcb-541c-4402-9f26-ad2d306dce6d.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Residents of a flood-wrecked home in Point Pleasant Beach N.J. offer encouragement to fellow victims of Superstorm Sandy on Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, in this message scrawled on the bottom of a waterlogged mattress. A new storm, this one a nor'easter, was due to hit the shore Wednesday, raising fears of renewed damage and flooding. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1cb82ffa-2199-4430-a2ba-319f1551cdf1.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1cb82ffa-2199-4430-a2ba-319f1551cdf1.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Dorothy Ann Van, of Surf City, Long Beach Island, N.J., who was displaced by Superstorm Sandy, stands at the front of a line to vote  Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, in Burlington, N.J., at a Mobile Voting Precinct.  Election officials say Superstorm Sandy had knocked out about 900 polling places in one way or another.  (AP Photo/Mel Evans)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=304b3f8e-48b9-49b9-9a19-e6fe403ee0d8.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="289" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=304b3f8e-48b9-49b9-9a19-e6fe403ee0d8.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="87" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, right, takes the stage with wife Ann before speaking at a campaign event at the Verizon Wireless Arena, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/David Goldman)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6eaabde6-7006-4a5c-8792-8eb3eabfc130.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="266" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6eaabde6-7006-4a5c-8792-8eb3eabfc130.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk off Air Force One after arriving at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ce18a320-07ef-47c0-82cb-d7e41296c997.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ce18a320-07ef-47c0-82cb-d7e41296c997.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Vice President Joe Biden waves as he exits a voting booth after casting his ballot at Alexis I. duPont High School, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Greenville, Del. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)   &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=c4ec2788-b14f-4e3a-bde8-61a459bbff9d.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=c4ec2788-b14f-4e3a-bde8-61a459bbff9d.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and wife Ann Romney vote in Belmont, Mass., Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6c62f386-bf94-473d-baf5-996abd375a33.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6c62f386-bf94-473d-baf5-996abd375a33.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., votes with his children Sam and Liza, as his wife Janna, second from left, votes with Charlie, at the Hedberg Public Library in Janesville, Wis., Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=b38c0052-8c3c-44ac-ba0f-2e36520b54d9.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=b38c0052-8c3c-44ac-ba0f-2e36520b54d9.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., waves as he comes off the stage with his wife Janna, left, daughter Liza, second from left, and sons Sam and Charlie, right, during a campaign event, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012 in Reno, Nev.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f99c3836-4df8-442f-bd77-9b0a762aded1.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f99c3836-4df8-442f-bd77-9b0a762aded1.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Bottled water sits on a table in a room at Hoboken City Hall as residents cast their votes on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Hoboken, N.J. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed a declaration allowing people displaced by Superstorm Sandy to vote in the general election at any polling place. However, such voters were not allowed to vote in local elections. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ac343f20-073a-4362-97bd-15b3cb6d7700.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="297" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ac343f20-073a-4362-97bd-15b3cb6d7700.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="89" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;President Barack Obama speaks to media as he visits a campaign office the morning of the 2012 election, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6f009bf4-b95d-4741-b87b-e7e6863e0af6.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="258" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6f009bf4-b95d-4741-b87b-e7e6863e0af6.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="78" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., gives a thumbs-up as he boards the campaign charter airplane in Janesville, Wis., Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=15c5cb04-5c81-47cf-aa04-8be2f49f4fce.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="239" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=15c5cb04-5c81-47cf-aa04-8be2f49f4fce.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="72" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A sign guides voters to a polling location as they line up to cast their votes Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Dallas.   After a grinding presidential campaign, Americans head into polling places across the country. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a02cd71b-3f07-46b3-b83b-2efdf571e80d.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="283" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a02cd71b-3f07-46b3-b83b-2efdf571e80d.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="85" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;President Barack Obama calls Wisconsin volunteers as he visits a campaign office call center the morning of the 2012 election, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=9d4f551b-041b-45b8-8836-da802116614b.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="290" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=9d4f551b-041b-45b8-8836-da802116614b.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="87" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Rep. Paul Ryan and his wife Janna, right, answer questions from local and region press organizations after voting at the Hedberg Public Library in Janesville, Wis., on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012.  (AP Photo/The Janesville Gazette, Mark Kauzlarich)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=125c08bc-62ca-4b77-9d06-a98a776eddb8.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="289" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=125c08bc-62ca-4b77-9d06-a98a776eddb8.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="87" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Poll workers Eva Prenga, right, Roxanne Blancero, center, and Carole Sevchuk try to start an optical scanner voting machine in the cold and dark at a polling station in a tent in the Midland Beach section of Staten Island, New York, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. The original polling site, a school, was damaged by Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=82bb22bb-56c9-4579-abfa-dfff2ca172ce.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="299" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=82bb22bb-56c9-4579-abfa-dfff2ca172ce.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Roseville Bakeryin Roseville, Minn. has been selling Obama and Romney cookies and tallying sales as part of a decidedly unscientific cookie poll. Roseville Bakery owner Amy Johnson says she's done her cookie poll in the past two elections, and it correctly predicted the winner both times. (AP Photo/Amy Forliti)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6039a2c7-fab8-40d2-8ff4-45d0553f45f3.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="282" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6039a2c7-fab8-40d2-8ff4-45d0553f45f3.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="85" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, center, votes at Ronald Reagan Lodge, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in West Chester, Ohio.  After a grinding presidential campaign, Americans head into polling places across the country.  (AP Photo/Al Behrman)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=0c1087d0-e3d2-47f5-91b1-fb245f4ecfa0.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=0c1087d0-e3d2-47f5-91b1-fb245f4ecfa0.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and his vice presidential running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., make an unscheduled stop at a Wendy's restaurant in Richmond Heights, Ohio, on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=0080586e-175c-44fe-8922-73ee41d01255.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=0080586e-175c-44fe-8922-73ee41d01255.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and his vice presidential running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., get ready to order as they make an unscheduled stop at a Wendy's restaurant in Richmond Heights, Ohio, on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cdcb8fc5-63f7-4308-a386-47b79287619b.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cdcb8fc5-63f7-4308-a386-47b79287619b.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Vice President Joe Biden meets with patrons during a visit to the Landmark Restaurant, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=68f75d90-5f61-438e-b185-48ce7823f0dc.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=68f75d90-5f61-438e-b185-48ce7823f0dc.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and his vice presidential running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., make an unscheduled stop at a Wendy's restaurant in Richmond Heights, Ohio, on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=547abc76-e450-45d4-a471-162272705044.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="261" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=547abc76-e450-45d4-a471-162272705044.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie holds a press conference outside the Joseph Bolger Middle School in Keansburg, N.J., where he spoke to residents Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, a week after Hurricane Sandy devasted New Jersey. (AP Photo/The Philadelphia Inquirer, Clem Murray, Pool)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d6e0f9eb-322b-4b6f-a266-e3cc42e45ddb.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="290" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d6e0f9eb-322b-4b6f-a266-e3cc42e45ddb.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="87" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;President Barack Obama waves to people as he leaves a campaign office the morning of the 2012 election, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f9344891-87ea-431b-b3e5-d2f4c1f36618.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="228" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f9344891-87ea-431b-b3e5-d2f4c1f36618.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="69" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A surfing class passes a sign for a polling place as voters head to the polls Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in San Diego. After a grinding presidential campaign President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, yield center stage to American voters Tuesday for an Election Day choice that will frame the contours of government and the nation for years to come.  (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a8286de9-ab16-40d4-b007-2db5098867f3.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a8286de9-ab16-40d4-b007-2db5098867f3.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="154" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;President Barack Obama calls out to people outside a campaign office in Chicago, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, after a visit with volunteers on the morning of the 2012 election. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=10e7f5e3-c4a4-4a81-827f-d44c1c91e47b.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="268" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=10e7f5e3-c4a4-4a81-827f-d44c1c91e47b.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;An airman stands guard next to Vice President Joe Biden's Air Force Two, in view of Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's charter jet, at Cleveland Hopkins International airport, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1a17f089-507f-4ee9-8a4e-c28edd1572cb.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1a17f089-507f-4ee9-8a4e-c28edd1572cb.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney waves to a crowd at a nearby parking lot after his campaign plane arrived at Moon Township Pittsburgh International Airport in Coraopolis, Pa., Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=afed7ef7-985d-470c-9847-a95c8b4fe986.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=afed7ef7-985d-470c-9847-a95c8b4fe986.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. waves upon his arrival at Richmond International Airport, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Richmond, Va.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=599ed25b-1fd0-4127-bd4d-7d0ccbfdfc45.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="258" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=599ed25b-1fd0-4127-bd4d-7d0ccbfdfc45.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="78" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Noelle Connor, a Madison, Miss., poll worker readies a sticker to apply to the lapel of finished voters at her precinct Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. Local officials expressed their pleasure with the large early turnout of voters. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d0788f3c-58ac-4590-bf8b-c6a54168b189.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d0788f3c-58ac-4590-bf8b-c6a54168b189.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. speaks to volunteers at a GOP field office, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Henrico County, Va.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=42315f62-f5aa-4bb8-b8f0-f60f68f81afa.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="272" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=42315f62-f5aa-4bb8-b8f0-f60f68f81afa.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="82" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A resident in Atlantic Highlands, N.J. walks to the Atlantic Highlands Emergency Services Building to vote as power outages from Superstorm Sandy forced the town to condense all the districts into one location, Tuesday Nov. 6, 2012 in Atlantic Highlands, N.J. (AP Photo/Joe Epstein)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2d0bae39-d4ac-4540-a295-fbc3f78c6121.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="283" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2d0bae39-d4ac-4540-a295-fbc3f78c6121.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="85" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;People wait in line to vote at the Neptune Society Columbarium Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012 in San Francisco. Built in 1898, the Neo-Classical columbarium is one of the last remaining cemeteries in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=67bf8204-7f44-469f-860b-18bbafce3523.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=67bf8204-7f44-469f-860b-18bbafce3523.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. speaks to volunteers at a GOP field office, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Henrico County, Va.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=3393ac49-6d71-498e-ab2e-eb9a99c1ee40.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=3393ac49-6d71-498e-ab2e-eb9a99c1ee40.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A voter arrives at a polling site at Makiki District Park on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Honolulu. After a grinding presidential campaign President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, yield center stage to American voters Tuesday for an Election Day choice that will frame the contours of government and the nation for years to come.  (AP Photo/Kent Nishimura)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=24ce925e-7c33-4513-9c0c-0adc1d1d2465.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=24ce925e-7c33-4513-9c0c-0adc1d1d2465.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney arrives on his campaign plane at Boston's Logan Airport, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e6d2df2c-da49-4bb7-8c7d-1ff5ef55b02e.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="271" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e6d2df2c-da49-4bb7-8c7d-1ff5ef55b02e.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="82" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Snow surrounds the polling precinct in Terra Alta, W.Va., as Peter Hough heads to work after casting his ballot on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=49917870-de10-46d4-b7b3-70c92815eb3e.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="261" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=49917870-de10-46d4-b7b3-70c92815eb3e.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Voters wait in line for over an hour to vote at the Moose Lodge polling site in Campbell County on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Lynchburg, Va. (AP Photo/News &amp; Daily Advance, Jill Nance)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ad7e85e1-38da-4e13-a9b0-c5491ff99211.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ad7e85e1-38da-4e13-a9b0-c5491ff99211.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A crowd waits in line to cast their votes in the general election at Ridgecrest Elementary, in Hyattsville, Md. on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012.  (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=db1b695b-1d8a-4c18-8c21-6fe21fea0b56.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=db1b695b-1d8a-4c18-8c21-6fe21fea0b56.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney visits a campaign call center in Green Tree, Pa., Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f88dd694-e844-4873-974a-544d202fd27a.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="386" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f88dd694-e844-4873-974a-544d202fd27a.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="159" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Craig Romney son of Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during Mitt's election night rally, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Boston. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=76358846-d714-4542-8daa-c3318d1e082a.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="243" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=76358846-d714-4542-8daa-c3318d1e082a.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="73" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A voter casts his ballot at a machine at the Highland Precinct 1 at the Roanoke Scottish Rite Building in Roanoke, Va. on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/The Roanoke Times, Kyle Green)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f016cd1f-fd34-4abc-a1f6-b31d40337f0c.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f016cd1f-fd34-4abc-a1f6-b31d40337f0c.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A Shreveport residents walks into Broadmoor Middle Laboratory to vote on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Shreveport, La. (AP Photo/The Shreveport Times, Jim Hudelson) MAGS OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT SHREVEPORTTIMES.COM;  NO SALES&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a1fee90f-d2dc-42e1-b5a7-48101c5b2687.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="288" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a1fee90f-d2dc-42e1-b5a7-48101c5b2687.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="87" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A stuffed loon overlooks voters in the Old Town Hall, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, on Westport Island, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=0548530e-08ed-48a0-9891-a89659640870.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=0548530e-08ed-48a0-9891-a89659640870.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Thai Vang, 33, left, and Agnes Ly, 28, of Paris, France, watch election results in Times Square, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in New York. After a year of campaigning, polls have begun to close after Americans across the United States headed to the polls to decide the winner of the tight presidential race between President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=34c33f22-e38f-4cae-b607-52316e07835e.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="257" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=34c33f22-e38f-4cae-b607-52316e07835e.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="77" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Taylor Pineiro of Queens, N.Y. a deputy field organizer for the Obama campaign, works the phone at a field office on Wyoming Avenue in Scranton, Pa., on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012 during Election Day.  (AP Photo/Scranton Times &amp; Tribune, Butch Comegys)  WILKES BARRE TIMES-LEADER OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=fc0fd367-a9e7-4e34-bd0f-ffcfbbe6f2ea.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="225" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=fc0fd367-a9e7-4e34-bd0f-ffcfbbe6f2ea.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this still frame made from video, voters wait to vote in Dixville Notch, N.H., shortly before midnight Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, to be the first Election Day votes in the nation. After 43 seconds of voting, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney each had 5 votes in Dixville Notch. (AP Photo/APTN)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=aec1cbb6-bc50-4bf5-a7b5-6ec250ee5ec8.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=aec1cbb6-bc50-4bf5-a7b5-6ec250ee5ec8.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and his running mate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., wave as they exit a campaign charter airplane at Cleveland Hopkins International airport, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012 in Cleveland, Ohio. Ryan arrived moments earlier on his own plane and met Romney on board.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=c540ecce-24b5-49dd-865f-7ec42995eb3c.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="306" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=c540ecce-24b5-49dd-865f-7ec42995eb3c.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="92" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Democratic candidate for Sennate Elizabeth Warren, center, casts her ballot as she and her husband , Bruce Mann, right, visited the polls near their Cambridge, Mass. home on  Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. Warren is running against Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA), who was elected in a special election in 2010 after the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA).  (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=65b25747-c0a7-4d9d-84a8-f5a54af502f1.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="295" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=65b25747-c0a7-4d9d-84a8-f5a54af502f1.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="89" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Linda McMahon waves as she thanks supporters in Stamford, Conn., Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. McMahon conceded the race to Democratic opponent Chris Murphy for the Senate seat now held by Joe Lieberman, an independent who's retiring. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6a2b3157-7d02-4868-87d7-d3192e60c1c3.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="366" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6a2b3157-7d02-4868-87d7-d3192e60c1c3.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="110" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;U.S. Sen Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., applauds as she checks in with election officials before voting at Kirkwood Community Center Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Kirkwood, Mo. McCaskill is running for reelection against Republican challenger Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a3fcd60e-50b0-441a-bd85-6293af35c3c6.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="319" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a3fcd60e-50b0-441a-bd85-6293af35c3c6.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="193" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Supporters wave flags at the election night party for President Barack Obama as they watch the returns Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a2402802-1997-4c8b-97b6-58dbc0e5c727.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a2402802-1997-4c8b-97b6-58dbc0e5c727.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Spencer Siady, left, and Vinay Cardwell, of Salt Lake CIty, react as disappointing numbers come in for Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney during election night party for the Republicans at the Hilton Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Chris Detrick)  DESERET NEWS OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; MAGS OUT&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=865090a7-5b4b-420d-ab09-5f223278f973.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="329" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=865090a7-5b4b-420d-ab09-5f223278f973.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="187" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A young supporter waves a flag at the election night party for President Barack Obama Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=050d7dab-093a-4420-b024-23685349f860.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="281" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=050d7dab-093a-4420-b024-23685349f860.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="85" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;El presidente Barack Obama en el último mitin de su campaña electoral el lunes, 5 de noviembre del 2012 antes de los comicios presidenciales, en Des Moines, Iowa. (Foto AP/Carolyn Kaster)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=3fa41157-6f40-4aab-b94a-dbe1b396b345.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="254" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=3fa41157-6f40-4aab-b94a-dbe1b396b345.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="76" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Supporters wave flags during President Barack Obama's election night party Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Chicago. President Obama defeated Republican challenger former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=233b9d79-da2f-449a-950e-9673ae51f146.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="501" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=233b9d79-da2f-449a-950e-9673ae51f146.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="150" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Supporters react to the election results at the election night party for President Barack Obama Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=09782049-987d-4ac8-8462-9b01b81407ae.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="259" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=09782049-987d-4ac8-8462-9b01b81407ae.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="78" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Democratic senate candidate former Gov. Timothy Kaine, and US Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., left, celebrate his win over Republican George Allen during his victory party in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7d75fb42-1a8f-4e58-91f4-96ddf7b3ae20.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="247" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7d75fb42-1a8f-4e58-91f4-96ddf7b3ae20.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="74" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Arizona Democrats celebrate as President Barack Obama is declared the winner of the presidential race at Democratic Party gathering, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Tucson, Ariz.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=993167c6-fb3e-426e-a6cd-dc95b2ece577.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=993167c6-fb3e-426e-a6cd-dc95b2ece577.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Christabel Escarez, right, and Daisy Frearson, second from right, watch early election results at the Wildrose bar in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. Both women said they were supporting Washington state's Referendum 74, which would legalize same-sex marriage. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a692f081-97fb-4374-941e-453b8758f09e.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="313" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a692f081-97fb-4374-941e-453b8758f09e.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="94" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A couple sits on chairs in a near-empty room to watch Fox News commentator Karl Rove on a big-screen television during a Republican Party election night gathering in the club level of Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Behind the Benghazi Cover-up  </title>
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On Sept. 11, scores of men with automatic weapons and RPGs launched a night assault on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and set the building ablaze. Using mortars, they launched a collateral attack on a safe house, killing two more Americans, as ot&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Streibig]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Daniel Streibig]]></source><link>http://streibig.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/16/14470708-behind-the-benghazi-cover-up</link><guid>http://streibig.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/16/14470708-behind-the-benghazi-cover-up</guid><category>politics</category><category>united-nations</category><category>fox-news</category><category>american-conservative</category><category>david-petraeus</category><category>hillary-clintons</category><category>why-because</category><category>pat-buchanan-pat-buchanan</category><category>comments-so-far-login</category><category>clinton-out-romneys</category><category>syndicate-breaking</category><pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 06:45:02 +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=StreibigA25EF140-923F-8375-41D3-5FF5AAB37CB5.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="150" width="225" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=StreibigA25EF140-923F-8375-41D3-5FF5AAB37CB5.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>GOP Strategist Admits Romney Is Witholding Details Of His Tax Plan</title>
<description><![CDATA[Republican consultant Mike Murphy, a former Romney strategist, said on NBC&rsquo;s&nbsp;Meet the Press&nbsp;Sunday that it is unfair to criticize Mitt Romney&rsquo;s lack of specificity on how to pay for his proposed&nbsp;20 percent&nbsp;income tax cut. Should Romney identify wha&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[T-800]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[T-800]]></source><link>http://t-800.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/07/14275340-gop-strategist-admits-romney-is-witholding-details-of-his-tax-plan</link><guid>http://t-800.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/07/14275340-gop-strategist-admits-romney-is-witholding-details-of-his-tax-plan</guid><category>politics</category><category>privacy-policies</category><category>mitt-romney8217-s</category><category>why-because</category><category>thinkprogress-privacy-policy</category><category>thinkprogress-terms</category><category>tags-election</category><category>tp-election-by</category><category>commentid-politics</category><category>should-romney</category><pubDate>Sun, 7 Oct 2012 16:25:36 +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=T-800F6190464-967D-CDD0-588F-010CD27394DB.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="141" width="110" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=T-800F6190464-967D-CDD0-588F-010CD27394DB.jpg&amp;width=120" width="110" height="141" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Clinton: Over Last 50 Years, Two-Thirds Of Private Sector Job Growth Came Under Democratic Presidents | ThinkProgress</title>
<description><![CDATA[Former President Bill Clinton poured cold water on the Republican Party&rsquo;s jobs rhetoric last night in a speech at the Democratic National Convention, telling the nation that in the 50 years since John F. Kennedy took office, the vast majority of private sector jobs have bee&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[T-800]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[T-800]]></source><link>http://t-800.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/06/13704661-clinton-over-last-50-years-two-thirds-of-private-sector-job-growth-came-under-democratic-presidents-thinkprogress</link><guid>http://t-800.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/06/13704661-clinton-over-last-50-years-two-thirds-of-private-sector-job-growth-came-under-democratic-presidents-thinkprogress</guid><category>white-house</category><category>politics</category><category>bill-clinton</category><category>privacy-policies</category><category>mitt-romney8217-s</category><category>why-because</category><category>republican-party8217-s</category><category>thinkprogress-privacy-policy</category><category>thinkprogress-terms</category><category>tp-economy-by</category><category>tags-bill-clinton-jobs</category><pubDate>Thu, 6 Sep 2012 14:11:18 +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=T-80054D342FE-07F2-AA8E-448C-277E6BD988F3.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="195" width="250" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=T-80054D342FE-07F2-AA8E-448C-277E6BD988F3.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>What Ever Happened to Shame?</title>
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This past June 29, Breitbart.com, the &Atilde;&frac14;ber-conservative website ran a lead article  with the screaming headline OBAMA CAMPAIGN CELEBRATES INDEPENDENCE DAY . . . WITH FUNDRAISER IN PARIS. In the piece's snarky opening paragraph, blogger Ben Shapiro wrote:
Apparen&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Soph0571]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Soph0571]]></source><link>http://smd12364.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/10/12662251-what-ever-happened-to-shame</link><guid>http://smd12364.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/10/12662251-what-ever-happened-to-shame</guid><category>politics</category><category>karl-rove</category><category>los-angeles-times</category><category>memorial-day</category><category>independence-day</category><category>south-lawn</category><category>right-wing-lies</category><category>why-because</category><category>telling-lies</category><category>sean-hannitys</category><category>european-obama</category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:48:02 +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=smd1236442172D1A-08A1-D374-BD54-573F28479854.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=smd1236442172D1A-08A1-D374-BD54-573F28479854.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>Bank fees are still too high (and confusing)</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/08/12123500-bank-fees-are-still-too-high-and-confusing</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/08/12123500-bank-fees-are-still-too-high-and-confusing</guid><category>banks</category><category>fees</category><category>disclosure</category><category>confusing</category><category>overdraft</category><category>why-because</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><pubDate>Fri, 8 Jun 2012 15:56:41 +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>Newt Literally Limps Into the Sunset - Politics - The Atlantic Wire</title>
<description><![CDATA[On his last day as a presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich is clutching his torn Achilles and grumbling that you people were such jerks about space.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[T-800]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[T-800]]></source><link>http://t-800.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/02/11503854-newt-literally-limps-into-the-sunset-politics-the-atlantic-wire</link><guid>http://t-800.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/02/11503854-newt-literally-limps-into-the-sunset-politics-the-atlantic-wire</guid><category>new-york</category><category>politics</category><category>year-ago</category><category>why-because</category><category>jail-cell</category><category>robert-costa</category><category>atlantic-cities-buzzfeed-more</category><category>comments-related-articles</category><category>obama-doesn39-t</category><category>elspeth-reeve-topics</category><category>temporary-city-are-millennials</category><pubDate>Wed, 2 May 2012 16:22:54 +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><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=T-800957156D4-DC93-CAB9-4BBE-81999A067C79.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="88" width="141" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=T-800957156D4-DC93-CAB9-4BBE-81999A067C79.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="75" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Unwelcome Mat: Ga. Senior Plans To Skip Graduation Because It's In A Church | Americans United</title>
<description><![CDATA[When Southwest Dekalb High School (Decatur, Ga.) holds its graduation next month, one of the school&rsquo;s top students won&rsquo;t attend because the ceremony is being held in a church.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[T-800]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[T-800]]></source><link>http://t-800.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/13/11181430-unwelcome-mat-ga-senior-plans-to-skip-graduation-because-its-in-a-church-americans-united</link><guid>http://t-800.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/13/11181430-unwelcome-mat-ga-senior-plans-to-skip-graduation-because-its-in-a-church-americans-united</guid><category>us-news</category><category>americans-united</category><category>why-because</category><category>pastor-eddie-long</category><category>georgia-blogs-wall</category><category>religious-buildings</category><category>schools-location</category><category>nahkoura-mahnassi-issues</category><category>field-legislative</category><category>separation-in</category><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:55:21 +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>  40 Quotes Demonstrating The Conservative Values Republicans Want To Destroy America With | Addicting Info</title>
<description><![CDATA[As I combed through many of these racist, anti-woman, anti-country quotes, I knew this is something to share with the Vine!]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[KEEPING IT REAL!]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[KEEPING IT REAL!]]></source><link>http://objectivity.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/04/11020635-40-quotes-demonstrating-the-conservative-values-republicans-want-to-destroy-america-with-addicting-info</link><guid>http://objectivity.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/04/11020635-40-quotes-demonstrating-the-conservative-values-republicans-want-to-destroy-america-with-addicting-info</guid><category>politics</category><category>why-because</category><pubDate>Wed, 4 Apr 2012 19:09:33 +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=objectivity525ADCE8-01BC-67DB-E7E6-4FBCBCEAF4CC.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="240" width="300" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=objectivity525ADCE8-01BC-67DB-E7E6-4FBCBCEAF4CC.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="96" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Your Facebook friends have more friends than you: survey</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/03/10309664-your-facebook-friends-have-more-friends-than-you-survey</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/03/10309664-your-facebook-friends-have-more-friends-than-you-survey</guid><category>border</category><category>img</category><category>facebook</category><category>why-because</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><category>alignleft</category><category>clearall</category><category>stylemargin</category><pubDate>Fri, 3 Feb 2012 14:00:19 +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://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/suzanne-choneyB78F084C-B6C2-C919-1D02-BC40F1C53106.photoblog400.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="253" width="380" ><media:thumbnail url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/suzanne-choneyB78F084C-B6C2-C919-1D02-BC40F1C53106.120;120;7;70;0.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;The average Facebook user gets more from their friends on Facebook than they give to their friends. Why? Because of a segment of &quot;power users,&quot; who specialize in different Facebook activities and contribute much more than the typical user does, a Pew survey finds. &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Who&amp;#8217;s Winning The Ex-Reagan Staffers Vote?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Friday&rsquo;s theme in the Republican presidential primary was a battle for the legacy of Ronald Reagan.
The Romney team hosted a conference call with ex-Reagan staffers who claimed Newt Gingrich had no claim to the Gipper&rsquo;s legacy.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[T-800]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[T-800]]></source><link>http://t-800.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/28/10259179-whos-winning-the-ex-reagan-staffers-vote</link><guid>http://t-800.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/28/10259179-whos-winning-the-ex-reagan-staffers-vote</guid><category>politics</category><category>when-i</category><category>conservative</category><category>dark-tower</category><category>why-because</category><category>bush-jr</category><category>unfollow-post</category><category>saintgenesius-what</category><category>like-realdb</category><category>democrat-dominated-state</category><category>like-chesire</category><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:11:17 +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=T-800D0D7CF86-71CA-30DF-5308-364924262E41.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="150" width="150" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=T-800D0D7CF86-71CA-30DF-5308-364924262E41.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>Moms Multi-task more than Dads</title>
<description><![CDATA[Too Funny! My wife and I had this discussion just the other night.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[UnclePezz]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[UnclePezz]]></source><link>http://unclepezz.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/02/9167833-moms-multi-task-more-than-dads</link><guid>http://unclepezz.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/02/9167833-moms-multi-task-more-than-dads</guid><category>women</category><category>health</category><category>chores</category><category>men</category><category>moms</category><category>multi-tasking</category><category>dads</category><category>why-because</category><category>not-doing-enough</category><category>home-not</category><category>moms-resent-dads</category><pubDate>Fri, 2 Dec 2011 16:50:32 +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>Conservativism Blew Up The Economy | Crooks and Liars</title>
<description><![CDATA[So what do you do when financial analysts are warning that&nbsp;housing&nbsp;prices are&nbsp;headed for a "triple dip", the second largest Swiss Bank (Credit&nbsp;Suisse) announces it's piling 1,500 additional job cuts - many from the US - on top of its previously announced 2,000&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[T-800]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[T-800]]></source><link>http://t-800.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/18/8888884-conservativism-blew-up-the-economy-crooks-and-liars</link><guid>http://t-800.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/18/8888884-conservativism-blew-up-the-economy-crooks-and-liars</guid><category>new-hampshire</category><category>congressional-budget-office</category><category>rick-perry</category><category>economic-development</category><category>christian-slater</category><category>susan-collins</category><category>why-because</category><category>swiss-bank</category><category>exploding-pipe-dream</category><category>big-brains</category><pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:38:05 +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><item><title>Ron Paul Can't Get Any Respect - Yahoo! News</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[AmericaRepublic]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[AmericaRepublic]]></source><link>http://americarepublic.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/25/7472553-ron-paul-cant-get-any-respect-yahoo-news</link><guid>http://americarepublic.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/25/7472553-ron-paul-cant-get-any-respect-yahoo-news</guid><category>politics</category><category>new-hampshire</category><category>charles-krauthammer</category><category>why-because</category><category>quilted-northern</category><category>koch-brothers</category><category>pauls-are-reshaping-politics</category><category>play-video-behind</category><category>industrygeorgia-pacific-products</category><category>gadhafis-jennifer-love-hewitt</category><category>party-chinese-flock</category><pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:53:37 +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=AmericaRepublic8A1A1277-EDC4-2D93-76E0-3DDC2B0DA43D.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="90" width="90" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=AmericaRepublic8A1A1277-EDC4-2D93-76E0-3DDC2B0DA43D.jpg&amp;width=120" width="90" height="90" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>John Boehner Unveils New Debt Ceiling Plan: Bitch, Bail, and Flail</title>
<description><![CDATA[John Boehner in an interview with FOX News's Cris Wallace, revealed the truth about what the Republicans really wanted to do to the U.S.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[gmross]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[gmross]]></source><link>http://gmross.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/08/7306969-john-boehner-unveils-new-debt-ceiling-plan-bitch-bail-and-flail</link><guid>http://gmross.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/08/7306969-john-boehner-unveils-new-debt-ceiling-plan-bitch-bail-and-flail</guid><category>politics</category><category>republican-congress</category><category>why-because</category><category>financial-reform-law</category><category>sheer-stupid-people</category><category>in-it-for-you</category><category>ohio-that</category><category>but-where-is-that-job</category><pubDate>Mon, 8 Aug 2011 18:21:38 +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>Workforce cutbacks creates &quot;Survivor: RIM Edition&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA[In an open letter, a former RIM employee expresses his dismay.
"Over a year an a half, the four of us in the same position dwindled to just me and yet I was responsible for getting all four jobs done for the better part of a year, since this is how long it took the department to &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[BXURZ]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[BXURZ]]></source><link>http://bxurz.newsvine.com/_news/2011/07/01/6991904-workforce-cutbacks-creates-survivor-rim-edition</link><guid>http://bxurz.newsvine.com/_news/2011/07/01/6991904-workforce-cutbacks-creates-survivor-rim-edition</guid><category>business</category><category>why-because</category><category>inside-rim</category><category>angry-birds8221</category><category>workforce-cutbacks</category><pubDate>Fri, 1 Jul 2011 14:43:20 +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=BXURZ62EEDD6B-0EE9-8CE0-D9BA-7F87A3E0E795.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="125" width="125" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=BXURZ62EEDD6B-0EE9-8CE0-D9BA-7F87A3E0E795.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>  Europe Debt Crisis a Window Into America's Future&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;NetRight Daily</title>
<description><![CDATA["The sovereign debt funding crisis ravaging Europe is a window into America&rsquo;s future, should Congress fail to find a way to rein in the $14.3 trillion national debt this decade.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lets look at the facts]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lets look at the facts]]></source><link>http://letslookatthefacts.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/18/6888300-europe-debt-crisis-a-window-into-americas-futurenbspnbspnetright-daily</link><guid>http://letslookatthefacts.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/18/6888300-europe-debt-crisis-a-window-into-americas-futurenbspnbspnetright-daily</guid><category>politics</category><category>federal-reserve</category><category>international-monetary-fund</category><category>credit-agricole</category><category>too-big</category><category>why-because</category><category>timothy-geithner</category><category>european-central-bank-s</category><category>dominoes-greece</category><category>save-systemic</category><category>by-robert-romano</category><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:36:13 +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>Bill would allow 'rounding up' of home values</title>
<description><![CDATA[Pity the poor Nevada homeowner. With home prices tumbling there at perhaps the fastest rate in the nation, it has become nearly impossible to get a handle on how much a home is worth. Why? Because appraisers, who base home values on comparable sales, have to depend on the plummeting target of “distressed” property sales that dominate in the state. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martha C. White]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Martha C. White]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/25/6714123-bill-would-allow-rounding-up-of-home-values</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/25/6714123-bill-would-allow-rounding-up-of-home-values</guid><category>homes</category><category>today</category><category>sales</category><category>real-estate</category><category>realtors</category><category>properties</category><category>appraisal</category><category>distressed</category><category>appraisers</category><category>why-because</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 11:15:27 +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://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/110501-biz-foreclosure-1231p.photoblog400.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/110501-biz-foreclosure-1231p.120;120;7;70;0.jpg" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;ALTADENA, CA - JULY 25:  A foreclosed home is up for sale July 25, 2008 in Altadena, California. Foreclosure filings skyrocketed, for their eighth consecutive quarterly climb, with 121 percent from last year and the number of homeowners faced with foreclosure more than doubling in the second quarter compared to a year ago, according to the latest reports from RealtyTrac. Hardest hit are cities in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Florida. In Stockton, California, one in every 25 homes were foreclosed upon, nearly seven times the national average. In the second quarter, U.S. banks took back 222,000 properties.  (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Wall Street Tames Washington | Truthout</title>
<description><![CDATA[They came, they saw, they conquered. This line pretty well sums up a little-reported but important story about the new tea partiers in the U.S.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen-one shot-one kill]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Stephen-one shot-one kill]]></source><link>http://stephen3100047.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/28/6547503-wall-street-tames-washington-truthout</link><guid>http://stephen3100047.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/28/6547503-wall-street-tames-washington-truthout</guid><category>politics</category><category>goldman-sachs</category><category>barry-bonds</category><category>powers-that-be</category><category>while-wall-street</category><category>why-because</category><category>steve-stivers</category><category>wall-streeters</category><category>wall-street39-s</category><category>dead-fish-can-go-with</category><category>really-among</category><pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 04:53:20 +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> Take it from a Progressive Deficit Hawk: Ryan's Budget Fixes Nothing » New Deal 2.0</title>
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The &ldquo;savings&rdquo; from Congressman Ryan&rsquo;s Medicare proposal and his unspecified cuts in everything else are then almost completely &ldquo;invested&rdquo; in tax cuts whose benefits flow hugely and disproportionately to upper income earners.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[caltha-palustris]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[caltha-palustris]]></source><link>http://caltha-palustris.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/23/6519053-take-it-from-a-progressive-deficit-hawk-ryans-budget-fixes-nothing-new-deal-20</link><guid>http://caltha-palustris.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/23/6519053-take-it-from-a-progressive-deficit-hawk-ryans-budget-fixes-nothing-new-deal-20</guid><category>medicare</category><category>politics</category><category>alan-blinder</category><category>why-because</category><category>congressman-ryan</category><category>us-fiscal-budget-negotiations</category><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:50:11 +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></item><item><title>America is becoming a plutocracy of the wealthy</title>
<description><![CDATA[Putting aside for the moment that, at the founding of our country neither African-Americans, Native Americans, women nor non-landed white folks possessed political or economic power, our democracy sprouted from a lofty notion: One person's vote was equal in value to anyone else's.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Soph0571]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Soph0571]]></source><link>http://smd12364.newsvine.com/_news/2011/03/20/6307435-america-is-becoming-a-plutocracy-of-the-wealthy</link><guid>http://smd12364.newsvine.com/_news/2011/03/20/6307435-america-is-becoming-a-plutocracy-of-the-wealthy</guid><category>business</category><category>wall-street</category><category>federal-reserve</category><category>labor-statistics</category><category>bard-college</category><category>why-because</category><category>average-americans</category><category>new-york-comptroller</category><pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:30:14 +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>The media and Obama: Image and reality</title>
<description><![CDATA[  For the past two weeks the US media has been pumping out admiring commentaries on the "comeback" of Barack Obama.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[greenpagan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[greenpagan]]></source><link>http://greenpagan.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/28/5729590-the-media-and-obama-image-and-reality</link><guid>http://greenpagan.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/28/5729590-the-media-and-obama-image-and-reality</guid><category>media</category><category>washington</category><category>white-house</category><category>democrats</category><category>politics</category><category>social-security</category><category>world-war-ii</category><category>obama</category><category>barack-obama</category><category>dems</category><category>lyndon-johnson</category><category>tea-party</category><category>why-because</category><category>republican-party-is</category><pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 02:28:49 +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>Bill McKibben: &quot;I Dare the Media to Cover This&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA[ We're holding a Global Work Party  on 10-10-10. All over the world, people will be putting up solar panels, digging community gardens, and laying out bike paths, all in an effort to show some actual leadership in fighting climate change.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[lzimmer]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[lzimmer]]></source><link>http://lzimmer.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/03/5224176-bill-mckibben-i-dare-the-media-to-cover-this</link><guid>http://lzimmer.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/03/5224176-bill-mckibben-i-dare-the-media-to-cover-this</guid><category>global-warming</category><category>environment</category><category>government</category><category>climate</category><category>climate-change</category><category>leadership</category><category>work-day</category><category>why-because</category><pubDate>Mon, 4 Oct 2010 00:10:03 +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></item></channel></rss>