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			<title><![CDATA[John Nichols: One last Clinton scenario]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column/nichols//301620</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ This column has been pondering and predicting an Obama-Biden ticket for some time now. That&#39;s still the best bet, and now that the announcement is finally imminent, everyone is talking about it.   So, what the heck, let&#39;s run the Hillary Clinton scenario one more time:   Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton like one another. Obama had Clinton&#39;s cell number on speed dial, and vice versa. They maintained stable, even good, personal relations during the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Nichols]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-08-21T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[John Nichols: Madisonian helps Dems &#39;get it&#39; on trade]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column/nichols//301579</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ There is no truer statement in the platform Democrats will approve next week in Denver than this one: &quot;Over the last few decades, fundamental changes in the way we work and live have trapped too many American families between an economy that&#39;s gone global and a government that&#39;s gone AWOL.&quot;  The key term is &quot;over the last few decades.&quot;  It was not just the Bush administration that trapped too many American families in the nightmare ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Nichols]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-08-20T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[John Nichols: A court contest contrast in Assembly race]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column/nichols//301353</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ When the Democratic candidates for the open 81st District Assembly seat debated last week, a pair of the contenders took opposing positions on a fundamental democracy issue.  Tim Kiefer, an assistant district attorney, proposed to deny the voters of Wisconsin a say in choosing Supreme Court justices. Kiefer supports so-called &quot;merit selection&quot; of judges -- a system that would have an elite panel appointed by the governor select &quot;a list of candidates&quot; from which the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Nichols]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-08-19T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[John Nichols: Feingold &#39;too hot to handle&#39; for Obama VP]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column/nichols//301243</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Russ Feingold is popular enough with grass-roots Democrats to have been boomed as a potential candidate for the party&#39;s 2008 nomination.   He has a national reputation for working across lines of party and ideology; in fact, Republican presidential candidate John McCain jokes that supporters of campaign finance reform think that &quot;Feingold&quot; is his last name.   Feingold comes from a battleground state that both the Democrats and Republicans say is critical to their strategies ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Nichols]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-08-18T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[John Nichols: Obama right to go rural]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column/nichols//300944</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ There were, of course, no secrets embedded in the Wisconsin campaign plan released with much fanfare last week by the Barack Obama for President campaign.  Candidates and their aides are not in the business of disclosing their more draconian strategies -- and that is especially true of the carefully controlled Obama campaign.  But the &quot;Change Begins in Wisconsin: Barack Obama&#39;s Blueprint for Victory&quot; package that the campaign unveiled Wednesday was still revealing, especially in its ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Nichols]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-08-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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