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         <title><![CDATA[Now It's Biden Time in Denver]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[With his formal debut tonight in Denver as the Democratic nominee for vice president, Sen. Joseph Biden (Del.) faces a tall order from Congressional colleagues who expect him to introduce himself to the American people, hit hard against Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), make a plea for party unity and lay out key elements of a prospective Obama-Biden platform.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/news/27650-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Black Voters Crucial in South]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[With the emergence of Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) as the new face of the Democratic Party, black voters — traditionally the party's most loyal — are expected to be especially motivated this year.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/news/27651-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Illinois Pols Covet Obama's Senate Seat]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Fueling speculation that failed 2006 Congressional candidate Tammy Duckworth (D) is the frontrunner to replace Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) if he is elected president, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) hosted a Denver bash on Tuesday night for the disabled Iraq War veteran.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/news/27646-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Alabama's Sweet Home in Colorado ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Step inside "Sweet Home AlObama" this week and get a taste of the Democratic National Convention with a distinctively Southern flavor, complete with heaping platters of barbecue spare ribs, "Obama Y'all" T-shirts and plenty of speculation about what the 2008 election cycle has meant for the Democratic Party in a state that has long been a GOP stronghold.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/news/27631-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[War Protesters Are Embraced   ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Anti-war lawmakers might support the role of protesters rallying outside of the Democratic National Convention, but once inside the convention hall, many are reluctant to raise the issue too loudly in the name of preserving an image of party unity.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/news/27648-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Heard on the Hill: While They Were Sleeping]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Media critics (i.e., everyone) love to accuse the press of snoozing on the job, of nodding off while news happens under their noses. Although HOH is usually quick to defend her fellow scribes, this week the critics might be right. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/hoh/27652-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Logistics for Invesco Field: a Work in Progress]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Media organizations are still waiting to get the final word on how many credentials they will receive for Thursday's festivities at Invesco Field at Mile High, the highlight of which will be the acceptance speech of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.). ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/news/27645-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[U.S. Attorney: Obama Not Endangered By Threats]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[U.S. Attorney Troy Eid told reporters Tuesday that the three Colorado men who threatened to kill Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) were "meth heads" who appeared to pose no real threat to the Democratic presidential nominee.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/news/27649-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Michelle Obama, Clinton Trade Praise]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[This time, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) was talking about a different kind of late-night phone call to the White House.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/news/27647-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[DC Vote Brings Its Message to Convention ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[On Tuesday afternoon, Denver's 16th Street Mall was packed with residents, tourists, activists and the commercially savvy, and a visitor couldn't walk a block without the offer of a political pamphlet or a convention memento.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/news/27644-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Arizona Democrats Ponder Future, McCain]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano (D) on Tuesday declined to rule out either leaving her job early to join the next White House administration or running for Senate in 2010, when she will be termed out of office.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/news/27639-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Unlike Other Vulnerables, Mitchell Visiting Denver]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Rep. Harry Mitchell (D-Ariz.) is preparing for a battle beginning next week, after Republicans have chosen their nominee in the 5th district GOP primary.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/news/27641-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Up the Road in Wyoming, Democrats Hopeful]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[CHEYENNE, Wyo. — At a time when Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is walloping Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in the race for Wyoming's three electoral votes 62 percent to 25 percent, according to a recent poll — and when the state's two Republican Senators are waltzing to re-election — the Democratic nominee for Wyoming's at-large House seat is not only making his second straight credible run for the office but also has a sizable money edge over his Republican opponent.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/news/27616-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[She Snags the Invites But Not the Parties ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Nancy Watzman will be attending as many parties as she can at the Democratic and Republican conventions, but she's not going for the good times. She'll be keeping track of who's feting whom and blogging about what she sees — provided she gets into the parties, of course. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/news/27620-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Jones Will Be Missed by Neighbors]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio), who died last week, was not one of those Members of Congress who makes Washington, D.C., their home and rarely goes back to their district. I know, because I lived above her in a D.C. apartment building for the past five years.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/news/27618-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[CongressNow: Sestak Seeks Bipartisan Approach to Ending War ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[As Democratic heavyweights weigh in tonight on the party's foreign policy agenda, one freshman lawmaker with strong military credentials — Rep. Joe Sestak (Pa.) — is calling for the Democrats to drop their push for an immediate pullout from Iraq and work with Republicans on a gradual end to the war.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/news/27622-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[CongressNow: Obama Enlists the Aid of 60 Generals and Admirals]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A group of former top military officers has played a crucial — but largely overlooked — role in the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), helping him shape his national security policies and defending the first-term Senator against charges that he lacks the experience to be commander in chief.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/news/27623-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Convention Daybook: Events for Wednesday]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The following events will take place in Denver on Wednesday, Aug. 27.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/news/27592-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[CongressNow: Democrats Put Advocates for Veterans in Spotlight]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) caught many by surprise when she suggested her choice for vice president would be Texas Democratic Rep. Chet Edwards. While Pelosi's pick was seen by some as a jab at President Bush, whose Crawford ranch falls into Edwards' district, her choice also reveals the growing importance Democrats are placing on veterans' issues.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/news/27621-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[National Celebrity Doesn't Equal Victory in House Elections]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[It isn't difficult to find Democratic Congressional candidates who have a chance of knocking off a GOP incumbent or winning a Republican open seat. Democrats should net at least 10 Congressional seats this November, possibly many more. It is going to be a very good Democratic year at the Congressional level.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/rothenberg/27600-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Obama's Narrow Lead Harkens Back to 1980 Election]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Why isn't Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) doing better in the polls? As the convention opened, that question continued to grip political analysts and observers of all stripes. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/ornstein/27633-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Celebrate Now Because Tough Budget Times Are Fast Approaching]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Political conventions are usually fun times for the party faithful. Everything, including your wildest political dreams, seems to be likely rather than just possible. The opposition appears to be far less formidable than it appeared to be just a few days earlier. There's nothing anyone can say that makes you think it's not your destiny to win. Even your food tastes better.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/collender/27603-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Biden in Action: In Romania, He Mixed Intuition and Smarts]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's selection of Sen. Joseph Biden (Del.) as his running mate understandably is being analyzed in excruciating detail for its political impacts: Will it unite the Democratic Party? Will he help the ticket in the election? Will his prior disagreements with Obama, for example, on the war in Iraq, help or hurt Obama's campaign? ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/guest/27604-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Message Discipline]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The latest cartoon from R.J. Matson.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/rjmatson/27640-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Delegates Know: Lobbyists Here to Stay ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Bashing lobbyists on the presidential campaign trail has been integral to both Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) and Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) political playbooks.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/vested/27629-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Wind, Solar and 'Clean Coal' Blow Into Denver]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Democrats, take note: The American Wind Energy Association has officially blown into the political arena. As the Democratic National Convention party scene kicked off Monday, the wind association took the city by storm, renting out the entire historic Wynkoop Brewery.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/vested/27630-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[K Street Files: A GOP Invasion?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The rhetoric from the floor of the Democratic National Convention may be purely partisan, but leave it to the K Streeters here in Denver to bring about a little bi-partisan comity.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/kfiles/27637-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Carney-Hackett in Tight Pa. Race, Poll Shows]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Reality could be catching up with Rep. Christopher Carney (D-Pa.).]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/politics/27643-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Photo of the Day: Light It Up]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA["The Spirits of Denver," the Distilled Spirits Council's party Monday night at Denver's Beta Nightclub, was the place for tossing back some top-shelf whiskey and cognac in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition. And Cigar Aficionado chipped in by sponsoring a smoking lounge that featured Rocky Patel premium cigars.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_22/ath/27615-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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