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	<title><![CDATA[GOP: Imploding, Meaningless, and Run by Crazies, But not Dead]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-jenkins/gop-imploding-meaningless_b_149111.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>For the past couple of decades, the consensus in the mainstream media was that the Democratic Party was in dire trouble: politically close to irrelevance and on the wrong foot demographically. Even Bill Clinton's eight years in power were considered a fluke: brought on by a third-party candidate, Ross Perot, and reliant on a centrist triangulating strategy that threw Congressional Democrats under the bus. Red states were growing the fastest, gaining congressional seats and electoral votes which would ensure a...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-01-07T05:12:00-05:00</date_published>
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