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	<title><![CDATA[The Republican Point of No Return]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dylan-loewe/the-republican-point-of-n_b_188139.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>There was a point not long after the 2006 midterm elections when observers began to note that Republicans were in truly terrible shape, that a staggering number of Senate and House Republicans were acutely vulnerable in their re-elections, and that in all likelihood, if the GOP failed to reconnect with voters, they would suffer even more substantial losses in 2008.</p>

<p>Republicans are in even weaker shape now. The party is contracting in size as it self-marginalizes; the number of voters who...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-05-18T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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