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		<title>Electability As Much About &#8220;Where&#8221; as &#8220;Who&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://aliciamenendez.com/2012/01/24/electability-as-much-about-where-as-who/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From my new NBCLatino piece: While Republicans each claim the mantle of electability, determining who is most likely to beat Barack Obama is as much about the path to victory each party pursues as it is about the candidate they send down that path. The Obama brain trust has laid out five different yellow brick [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciamenendez.com&amp;blog=3236815&amp;post=1227&amp;subd=aieise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are Animal-Act Circuses Bad for Kids?</title>
		<link>http://aliciamenendez.com/2012/01/22/are-animal-act-circuses-bad-for-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A thought provoking op-ed in The Miami Herald (written by a friend) highlights the animal cruelty prevalent in circuses that feature animal acts: Fear and deprivation are inherent in the training of circus animals. You will not see a circus animal act without sticks, whips, electric prods or bullhooks. Watch for them. They may not be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciamenendez.com&amp;blog=3236815&amp;post=1225&amp;subd=aieise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And&#8230; We&#8217;re Live! Power Play on Cristina Radio SiriusXM Channel 146</title>
		<link>http://aliciamenendez.com/2012/01/19/and-were-live-power-play-on-cristina-radio-siriusxm-channel-146/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m happy to share my first piece of big news for 2012: I&#8217;m co-hosting a new radio show on SiriusXM.  My co-host is the smart and funny Bettina Inclán, who was recently named Director of Hispanic Outreach for the RNC.  Our show airs on the newly launched Cristina Channel, named for Latina icon Cristina Saralegui and run by National Latino [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciamenendez.com&amp;blog=3236815&amp;post=1219&amp;subd=aieise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Foreshadowing Some Big News!</title>
		<link>http://aliciamenendez.com/2012/01/12/foreshadowing-some-big-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latina]]></category>
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			<media:title type="html">Cristina Radio is now on air at SiriusXM Channel 146</media:title>
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		<title>&#8220;Alternative to Romney&#8221; Race Heads to Florida</title>
		<link>http://aliciamenendez.com/2012/01/12/alternative-to-romney-race-heads-to-florida/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Headlines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From my new piece at NBCLatino: The “alternative to Romney” race will now drag the frontrunner through Florida, giving Republican Hispanics a legitimate opportunity to weigh in on their nominee and forcing Romney to find his way back to the middle on issues such as immigration faster than he would have liked. Unlike the first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciamenendez.com&amp;blog=3236815&amp;post=1211&amp;subd=aieise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Romney&#8217;s Rejection of Choice Amounts to Harassment</title>
		<link>http://aliciamenendez.com/2011/11/12/romneys-rejection-of-choice-amounts-to-harassment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Herman Cain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personhood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Politic365: Poll after poll indicates that women swing voters are prioritizing bread and butter issues like jobs, the economy, healthcare and education over “social” issues like choice, immigration and gay rights. But “personhood” initiatives and cuts to family planning programs aren’t just about reproductive freedom.  This is a window into what the GOP and Mitt Romney [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciamenendez.com&amp;blog=3236815&amp;post=1207&amp;subd=aieise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Family Secrets</title>
		<link>http://aliciamenendez.com/2011/10/30/family-secrets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enjoy!  Be sure to sign up for our email list here. &#160; Filed under: Politics<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciamenendez.com&amp;blog=3236815&amp;post=1203&amp;subd=aieise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Video: I Get Sean Hannity to Admit That He Support Elements of the Obama Jobs Plan</title>
		<link>http://aliciamenendez.com/2011/09/27/video-i-get-sean-hannity-to-admit-that-he-support-elements-of-the-obama-jobs-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alicia "Late on the Uptake" Menendez]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the way Conservative talk show host Sean Hannity criticizes President Obama&#8217;s jobs plan, you&#8217;d assume that there is literally nothing about this legislation that he finds appealing.  This is interesting given how many elements of the plan are originally Republican proposals.  But behold! I have discovered at least one matter on which Hannity supports [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciamenendez.com&amp;blog=3236815&amp;post=1196&amp;subd=aieise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Afraid of Susana Martínez?</title>
		<link>http://aliciamenendez.com/2011/09/26/whos-afraid-of-susana-martinez/</link>
		<comments>http://aliciamenendez.com/2011/09/26/whos-afraid-of-susana-martinez/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Susana Martínez, the first Latina governor in the United States, made waves  earlier this month when she acknowledged that her grandparents had been undocumented  immigrants. Immigration advocates, desperate to disarm Martínez, have pointed to  her family history as a reason she should revisit her positions on immigration,  including dropping her bid to repeal a state [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciamenendez.com&amp;blog=3236815&amp;post=1191&amp;subd=aieise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Video: On MSNBC Discussing the War on Everyday Americans</title>
		<link>http://aliciamenendez.com/2011/09/06/video-on-msnbc-discussing-the-war-on-everyday-americans/</link>
		<comments>http://aliciamenendez.com/2011/09/06/video-on-msnbc-discussing-the-war-on-everyday-americans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia</dc:creator>
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