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	<description>How principled progressives work with conscientious conservatives.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Watching the Nader-Baldwin Debate</title>
		<link>http://www.votepact.org/2008/10/deformed-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.votepact.org/2008/10/deformed-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.votepact.org/?p=210</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[McKinney states that the debate was basically run unilaterally by the Nader campaign, she will be on C-Span&#8217;s &#8220;Washington Journal&#8221; Friday at 9 am ET.
Moderator Chris Hedges claimed that Chomsky will be voting for Obama, but what he read I don&#8217;t think backed that up. In his interview with The Real News, which I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Third Party Ticket is organizing a debate tonight with Nader and Baldwin. Their web page also features a forum with Cynthia McKinney.
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		<title>Global Online Poll: Ron Paul Beats Barack Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.votepact.org/2008/10/global-online-poll-ron-paul-beats-barack-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.votepact.org/2008/10/global-online-poll-ron-paul-beats-barack-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.votepact.org/?p=203</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After the the BBC allegedly did a &#8220;global poll&#8221; which only listed Obama and McCain (I guess ballot access restrictions are even more stringent in Canada), I wrote the piece &#8220;If Everyone in the World Could Vote, Obama Would Win. Right?&#8221; which argued that &#8212; despite the lack of media coverage &#8212; third party and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slogans for VotePact</title>
		<link>http://www.votepact.org/2008/10/slogans-for-votepact/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.votepact.org/?p=111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(1 unsatisfied Democrat) * (1 unsatisfied Republican) &#8211;VotePact&#8211;&#62; (2 happy independents)
&#8220;VotePact: The Next Phase of the R3VOLution&#8221;
&#8220;VotePact, it&#8217;s like getting your vote and eating it too.&#8221;
&#8220;Freeing the Public, Two at a Time&#8221;
&#8220;Don&#8217;t cancel your vote with your friend&#8217;s &#8212; double your votes together.&#8221;
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		<title>Video Your VotePact</title>
		<link>http://www.votepact.org/2008/10/video-your-votepact/</link>
		<comments>http://www.votepact.org/2008/10/video-your-votepact/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.votepact.org/?p=195</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You would vote for Obama. Your neighbor would vote for McCain. You would cancel each other out. Instead, you decide to team up and magnify your votes by both voting for other candidates. Now, video it. YouTube is teaming up with PBS, encouraging people to &#8220;Video Your Vote&#8221;. I can&#8217;t say I embrace the politics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addendum on the &#8220;Blind Taste Test&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.votepact.org/2008/10/addendum-on-the-blind-taste-test/</link>
		<comments>http://www.votepact.org/2008/10/addendum-on-the-blind-taste-test/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[

Back in December 2007, Matt Waterman, who set up one of the blind taste test web pages for the primaries told me:
Five months after launch we&#8217;ve had over 200,000 people use the tool to find out how well candidates&#8217; views match up against their own. Records from the submissions have shown the most common top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Spiral of Silence, the Pundification of the Populous and the Blind Taste Test</title>
		<link>http://www.votepact.org/2008/10/the-spiral-of-silence-the-pundification-of-the-populus-and-the-blind-taste-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Several decades ago, the German pollster Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (who worked for a time at a pro-Nazi paper) put forward the notion of the Spiral of Silence, in part to explain why people in Germany went along with the Nazis:
Observations made in one context spread to another and encouraged people either to proclaim their views or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Debates?</title>
		<link>http://www.votepact.org/2008/10/open-debates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.votepact.org/2008/10/open-debates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.votepact.org/?p=184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s all rather late in the game &#8212; what isn&#8217;t? &#8212; but Third Party Ticket is organizing a more inclusive debate, for Sunday October 19th, 2008 from 7pm to 9pm ET. The group has invited Chuck Baldwin, Bob Barr, Cynthia McKinney, Ralph Nader, Barack Obama and John McCain. For a taste, see Democracy Now&#8217;s simulated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IndyKids and Political Compass</title>
		<link>http://www.votepact.org/2008/10/indykids-and-political-compass/</link>
		<comments>http://www.votepact.org/2008/10/indykids-and-political-compass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.votepact.org/?p=172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s remarkable that McCain and Obama agree on the Wall Street bailout, increasing the military, civil liberties restrictions (Patriot Act re-authorization, FISA), corporate trade deals, support for Israel, increased militarization of Afghanistan, threats (&#8221;all options on the table&#8221;) against Iran, against a single-payer health care system. On many of these issues, they are opposed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GRITtv Covers VotePact</title>
		<link>http://www.votepact.org/2008/10/grittv-covers-votepact/</link>
		<comments>http://www.votepact.org/2008/10/grittv-covers-votepact/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.votepact.org/?p=166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[See today&#8217;s GRITtv segment on voting issues including VotePact.
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