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		<title>By: The Moderate Voice &#187; Domestic and international news analysis, irreverent comments, original reporting, and popular culture features from across the political spectrum.</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/15972/behind-the-endorsements/comment-page-1/#comment-104424</link>
		<dc:creator>The Moderate Voice &#187; Domestic and international news analysis, irreverent comments, original reporting, and popular culture features from across the political spectrum.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] I opined on the endorsements of the day: Brownback for McCain, Robertson for [...]</description>
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		<title>By: DLS</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/15972/behind-the-endorsements/comment-page-1/#comment-104304</link>
		<dc:creator>DLS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Now who didn&#039;t make the news?  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1107/p01s04-uspo.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This guy&lt;/a&gt;.

It really looks like a &quot;beat Clinton&quot; strategy rather than promotion of the interests of &lt;a href=&quot;http://pewresearch.org/pubs/615/republican-social-issue-voters&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;social conservatives&lt;/a&gt;.

Meanwhile, yesterday produced &lt;a href=&quot;http://pewresearch.org/pubs/629/election-07-tuesdays-winners-and-losers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;winners and losers &lt;/a&gt;and much of the public &lt;a href=&quot;http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=368&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;still seems positive &lt;/a&gt;about having voted for Dems in 2006.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now who didn&#8217;t make the news?  <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1107/p01s04-uspo.html" rel="nofollow">This guy</a>.</p>
<p>It really looks like a &#8220;beat Clinton&#8221; strategy rather than promotion of the interests of <a href="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/615/republican-social-issue-voters" rel="nofollow">social conservatives</a>.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, yesterday produced <a href="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/629/election-07-tuesdays-winners-and-losers" rel="nofollow">winners and losers </a>and much of the public <a href="http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=368" rel="nofollow">still seems positive </a>about having voted for Dems in 2006.</p>
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		<title>By: Chuck Adkins &#187; Shocker! Pat Robertson Endorses Giuliani</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/15972/behind-the-endorsements/comment-page-1/#comment-104302</link>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Adkins &#187; Shocker! Pat Robertson Endorses Giuliani</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Theater, Examining Presidential â€¦, Taylor Marsh, RealClearPolitics, Gawker, New York Magazine, The Moderate Voice, Hot Air, TownHall Blog, ABCNEWS, The Jawa Report, Macsmind, Democratic Strategist, Eunomia, [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Theater, Examining Presidential â€¦, Taylor Marsh, RealClearPolitics, Gawker, New York Magazine, The Moderate Voice, Hot Air, TownHall Blog, ABCNEWS, The Jawa Report, Macsmind, Democratic Strategist, Eunomia, [...]</p>
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		<title>By: DLS</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/15972/behind-the-endorsements/comment-page-1/#comment-104293</link>
		<dc:creator>DLS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Whatâ€™s laughable is that Mitt Romney, who is similar to Giuliani in being much less than truly conservative, presents himself as a â€œreal conservative,â€ and has gotten nothing from the social-conservative [celebrities]&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/05/AR2007110501262.html?nav=hcmodule&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Weyrich to the rescue&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Whatâ€™s laughable is that Mitt Romney, who is similar to Giuliani in being much less than truly conservative, presents himself as a â€œreal conservative,â€ and has gotten nothing from the social-conservative [celebrities]</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/05/AR2007110501262.html?nav=hcmodule" rel="nofollow">Weyrich to the rescue</a></p>
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		<title>By: Michael van der Galien</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/15972/behind-the-endorsements/comment-page-1/#comment-104269</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael van der Galien</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Many states that should be.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many states that should be.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael van der Galien</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/15972/behind-the-endorsements/comment-page-1/#comment-104268</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael van der Galien</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pete, you&#039;re right to point out that McCain is making a remarkable comeback. The only problem is... he isn&#039;t going to win many polls according to state polls.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pete, you&#8217;re right to point out that McCain is making a remarkable comeback. The only problem is&#8230; he isn&#8217;t going to win many polls according to state polls.</p>
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		<title>By: DLS</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/15972/behind-the-endorsements/comment-page-1/#comment-104247</link>
		<dc:creator>DLS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What&#039;s laughable is that Mitt Romney, who is similar to Giuliani in being much less than truly conservative, presents himself as a &quot;real conservative,&quot; and has gotten nothing from the social-conservative celebritities.

Mitt Romney offers Americans...nothing but a smile.  And the people who would vote for someone because of his or her smile are for Obama (with Edwards and Clinton behind Obama).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What&#8217;s laughable is that Mitt Romney, who is similar to Giuliani in being much less than truly conservative, presents himself as a &#8220;real conservative,&#8221; and has gotten nothing from the social-conservative celebritities.</p>
<p>Mitt Romney offers Americans&#8230;nothing but a smile.  And the people who would vote for someone because of his or her smile are for Obama (with Edwards and Clinton behind Obama).</p>
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		<title>By: DLS</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/15972/behind-the-endorsements/comment-page-1/#comment-104246</link>
		<dc:creator>DLS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Who cares who Pat Robertson endorses because the Republican nominee has so little chance of winning in the general election.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

The Left &quot;cares&quot; more about what Robertson and the rest of the Religious Right says than anybody else, particularly us mainstream voters, who don&#039;t blow up the Religious Right into some kind of demonic monster to compete with Bush in the psychotic-behavior-object department.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Who cares who Pat Robertson endorses because the Republican nominee has so little chance of winning in the general election.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Left &#8220;cares&#8221; more about what Robertson and the rest of the Religious Right says than anybody else, particularly us mainstream voters, who don&#8217;t blow up the Religious Right into some kind of demonic monster to compete with Bush in the psychotic-behavior-object department.</p>
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		<title>By: Pete Abel</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/15972/behind-the-endorsements/comment-page-1/#comment-104244</link>
		<dc:creator>Pete Abel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Superdestroyer - with all due respect, McCain has burned many bridges with the &quot;core&quot; of the GOP, and yet he&#039;s polling remarkably well of late.  Further, hypothetical match-ups between he and Hillary have frequently found him closer to her numbers than Rudy would be.  Net:  I&#039;m just not as convinced as you are of the future; my crystal-ball is a tad-bit cloudier.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Superdestroyer &#8211; with all due respect, McCain has burned many bridges with the &#8220;core&#8221; of the GOP, and yet he&#8217;s polling remarkably well of late.  Further, hypothetical match-ups between he and Hillary have frequently found him closer to her numbers than Rudy would be.  Net:  I&#8217;m just not as convinced as you are of the future; my crystal-ball is a tad-bit cloudier.</p>
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		<title>By: superdestroyer</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/15972/behind-the-endorsements/comment-page-1/#comment-104242</link>
		<dc:creator>superdestroyer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Peter, 

A McCain nomination would lead to a massive rout.  McCain burned his bridges with the core of the Republican party when he supported amnesty.   Funding raising would collapse for the Republicans and many would stay home when faced with a McCain v Clinton ticket.  It would probably be worse than Dole-Clinton in 1996.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Peter, </p>
<p>A McCain nomination would lead to a massive rout.  McCain burned his bridges with the core of the Republican party when he supported amnesty.   Funding raising would collapse for the Republicans and many would stay home when faced with a McCain v Clinton ticket.  It would probably be worse than Dole-Clinton in 1996.</p>
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		<title>By: Pete Abel</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/15972/behind-the-endorsements/comment-page-1/#comment-104241</link>
		<dc:creator>Pete Abel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Superdestroyer - While I generally agree we will be saying &quot;Madame President&quot; often in 2009, it ain&#039;t over till it&#039;s over.  A McCain-Brownback or McCain-Thompson or even McCain-Huckabee ticket could be quite formidable, regardless of what we might individually think of those candidates.  And yes, I still believe the Senator has a chance of winning the GOP nomination.  And yes, I still believe he&#039;s better situated (especially with the correct VP choice) to beat Hillary-Whoever than Rudy-Whoever is.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Superdestroyer &#8211; While I generally agree we will be saying &#8220;Madame President&#8221; often in 2009, it ain&#8217;t over till it&#8217;s over.  A McCain-Brownback or McCain-Thompson or even McCain-Huckabee ticket could be quite formidable, regardless of what we might individually think of those candidates.  And yes, I still believe the Senator has a chance of winning the GOP nomination.  And yes, I still believe he&#8217;s better situated (especially with the correct VP choice) to beat Hillary-Whoever than Rudy-Whoever is.</p>
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		<title>By: superdestroyer</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/15972/behind-the-endorsements/comment-page-1/#comment-104239</link>
		<dc:creator>superdestroyer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Who cares who Pat Robertson endorses because the Republican nominee has so little chance of winning in the general election.  If the Republicans are having to compete in Colorado and Virginia and with New Hampshire a safe state for the Democrats, it really just does not matter who the Republicans nominate or what their positions. 

Maybe a better use of time would be who Senator Clinton&#039;s Attorney General will be and what their opinion is on international surveillance or waterboarding or what status should be given to someone who is not in uniform and attacking the U.S. Military?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who cares who Pat Robertson endorses because the Republican nominee has so little chance of winning in the general election.  If the Republicans are having to compete in Colorado and Virginia and with New Hampshire a safe state for the Democrats, it really just does not matter who the Republicans nominate or what their positions. </p>
<p>Maybe a better use of time would be who Senator Clinton&#8217;s Attorney General will be and what their opinion is on international surveillance or waterboarding or what status should be given to someone who is not in uniform and attacking the U.S. Military?</p>
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		<title>By: DLS</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/15972/behind-the-endorsements/comment-page-1/#comment-104237</link>
		<dc:creator>DLS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;When a prominent, founding member of the RR â€œstoopsâ€ to endorse a clear pro-choice, pro-gay candidate, it would seem to suggest theyâ€™ve now fully sacrificed principles for politics&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Shaun outdid Robertson with his latest GOP-bashing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>When a prominent, founding member of the RR â€œstoopsâ€ to endorse a clear pro-choice, pro-gay candidate, it would seem to suggest theyâ€™ve now fully sacrificed principles for politics</p></blockquote>
<p>Shaun outdid Robertson with his latest GOP-bashing.</p>
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		<title>By: Patrick Joubert Conlon</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/15972/behind-the-endorsements/comment-page-1/#comment-104236</link>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Joubert Conlon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is Robertson&#039;s endorsement of Rudy a blessing or a curse? Even many RRs think Robertson&#039;s nuts.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is Robertson&#8217;s endorsement of Rudy a blessing or a curse? Even many RRs think Robertson&#8217;s nuts.</p>
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