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	<title>Democracy Spot</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Small Tent</title>
		<link>http://www.jamestownproject.org/index.php?option=com_mojo&amp;Itemid=134&amp;p=82</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[National parties mediate the differences between their regional bases.  The Democrats, for example, must negotiate between the interests of their constituencies in the northeast, the upper midwest, and the west coast.  What an autoworker in Detroit sees as a critical political issue from a taxi driver in New York City, and both would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Votes Have Consequences, or Regionalization (continued)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dsilbey</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Economics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[GOP Senators effectively scuttled the initial automakers bailout bill.  That was an electoral disaster waiting to happen for the Republicans in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, and western Pennsylvania.  That should have been clear to GOP leaders back in February; it should be even clearer to them today, when a Michigan dealership starting using that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What A Regional Party Looks Like</title>
		<link>http://www.jamestownproject.org/index.php?option=com_mojo&amp;Itemid=134&amp;p=80</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dsilbey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As a followup to this post.  The Republican Party continues to hold its base in the South and not much else.  From a recent poll:
Republican Party:
Northeast: 8% favorable, 82% unfavorable
Midwest: 22% favorable, 68% unfavorable
West: 20% favorable, 70% unfavorable
South: 43% favorable, 47% unfavorable
Hat-tip to Steve Benen
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		<title>What Defeat Looks Like</title>
		<link>http://www.jamestownproject.org/index.php?option=com_mojo&amp;Itemid=134&amp;p=79</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dsilbey</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Democracy</category>
	<category>Militarism</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[A follow-up to this post]
In counterinsurgencies, military effort can create the conditions for ending the war, but it (usually) can&#8217;t end the war by itself.  That depends on the political accommodation of enough of the constituencies supporting the insurgents to undercut their military effort.  Without that, the insurgency is likely to start again. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wrong Question</title>
		<link>http://www.jamestownproject.org/index.php?option=com_mojo&amp;Itemid=134&amp;p=78</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dsilbey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of a reasonable analysis of the situation in Afghanistan, Robert Kaplan asks the wrong question.  It&#8217;s not a big surprise, as the question he does ask fits nicely into the post-Vietnam perception of American military action.  It is, nonetheless, wrong:
To that end, significant numbers of American officers and civilian contractors [...]]]></description>
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