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	<title><![CDATA[The Republican Party's Death Wish]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-jenkins/the-republican-partys-dea_b_174779.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>The political <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19956.html">death-watch</a> for RNC Chairman Michael Steele is wildly entertaining: who knew the party that gave us George W. Bush and Sarah Palin was holding back its best buffoon yet? The bigger question, though, is not so much whether Steele will survive, but whether it his party that is doomed.</p>

<p>Defeated, lacking in leadership, deeply divided despite its shrinking size, out of touch with the country, demographically unrepresentative: the GOP has hit the kind of perfect storm that it...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-03-13T15:10:00-04:00</date_published>
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