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	<title>SmartRemarks &#187; voting</title>
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		<title>David Brooks, daring upholder of shallow conventional wisdom</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/05/david-brooks-daring-upholder-of-shallow-conventional-wisdom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 09:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Brooks, throughout his long history as a pundit, consistently seems to love drawing sweeping generalizations from just a handful of anecdotal examples. Sometimes even just one. In his latest column, he&#8217;s resorted to using an imaginary one.
Brooks retells the fable of the ant and the grasshopper through an imaginary middle-American voter he calls &#8220;Ben.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Specter of change</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/04/the-specter-of-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1248</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My immediate reaction yesterday when I heard the news report that Sen. Arlen Specter had changed his party affiliation from (R) to (D):  a shouted &#8220;Yes!&#8221; and a fist pump. 
Beyond that, almost everything has already been said in the media whirlwind of the last 24 hours, but I thought I&#8217;d share a little personal perspective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The race to replace Rahm</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/01/the-race-to-replace-rahm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electoral]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The question of who will fill Obama&#8217;s Senate seat has gotten the lion&#8217;s share of media coverage, but meanwhile things are heating up around another question, the one of who will replace Obama&#8217;s Chief of Staff—Rahm Emanuel—in the seat from Illinois&#8217; fifth Congressional district, here in Chicago.
I went to a meeting tonight of the local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broken gears in the machinery of democracy</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/11/broken-gears-in-the-machinery-of-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/11/broken-gears-in-the-machinery-of-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electoral]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=559</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a question.
After years of complaints from politicians, journalists, and pretty much everyone about Americans&#8217; waning interest in politics, and concern about dropping levels of voter participation&#8230; why were we so poorly prepared in so many places when that trend finally reversed itself?

Turnout was up dramatically this year. MSNBC reports that&#8230;
The percentage of Americans who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One week out</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/10/one-week-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=449</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As my last couple of posts should demonstrate, I can&#8217;t write about all politics all the time. I wouldn&#8217;t want to. But this is a political season, and there&#8217;s no doubt that the topic is on the front burner. We can all understand the reasons why.
We are seven days away from a momentous change in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some truth about ACORN, election fraud, and vote suppression</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/10/some-truth-about-acorn-election-fraud-and-vote-suppression/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/10/some-truth-about-acorn-election-fraud-and-vote-suppression/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=379</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been more heat than light in recent days about alleged election fraud of various kinds. Today at electoral-vote.com there&#8217;s a good piece about some of the real problems involved here (emph. mine):
Challenges Could Disenfranchise Millions of Voters
The Help America Vote Act, passed after the 2000 debacle in Florida, mandates that states have a statewide [...]]]></description>
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