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	<title>Geoff Decker's whereIstand blog</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>GM Chief on Auto Industry crisis&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.whereistand.com/gethro/95</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gethro</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[auto industry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[financial crisis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rick Waggoner wrote an op-ed in Wall Street Journal titled &#8216;Why GM Deserves Support&#8216;, reasoning that GM and the Detroit auto industry has made significant progress for the last decade. They&#8217;ve narrowed the competitive gap, he says, in terms of both production quality and compensation and benefits for its employees .
So if progress has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friedman on Sec. of State Clinton</title>
		<link>http://blogs.whereistand.com/gethro/94</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Given his brand as a foreign policy expert, Thomas Friedman knows something about the responsibilities of a Secretary of State and explains as much in his most recent column, as it relates to a relationship with the President:
I covered a secretary of state, one of the best, James A. Baker III, for four years, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama promises to address college football playoff</title>
		<link>http://blogs.whereistand.com/gethro/93</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since so many of college football&#8217;s BCS schools reside in traditional red states I doubt many BCS presidents voted for Barry Obama earlier this month. And if they didn&#8217;t support him before, I can&#8217;t imagine what they think about him now after he went on national television and suggested that he would personally address a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Simmons for Obama&#8217;s Sports Czar</title>
		<link>http://blogs.whereistand.com/gethro/92</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.whereistand.com/gethro/92#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gethro</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Simmons]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Opinions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t underestimate Simmons&#8217; grassroots following to make this thing a reality. In his latest mailbag column, he lays out a platform for the sports items that he would address as a cabinet member in Barack Obama&#8217;s administration. From a whereIstand researcher&#8217;s perspective, the platform was a gold mine for submitting evidence of his opinions: I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Times Headline goes all Huffington Post and Misleads Readers</title>
		<link>http://blogs.whereistand.com/gethro/91</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.whereistand.com/gethro/91#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gethro</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[new york times]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[rahm emanuel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A in NYT this morning boasts that Emanuel Urges Aid for Auto Industry, which turns out to be entirely misleading compared to the article&#8217;s details:
When asked on ABC’s “This Week” where Mr. Obama stood on the issue, Mr. Emanuel seemed to suggest that Mr. Obama, as a last resort, might be open to tapping the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insightful ESPN commentary&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.whereistand.com/gethro/89</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gethro</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Basketball]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Predictions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jackie MacMullan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mark Jackson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[NBA]]></category>

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ESPN&#8217;s Jackie MacMullan and Mark Jackson on why they&#8217;re picking the Cleveland Cavaliers to win the NBA Central Division:
MacMullan: &#8220;Mo Williams. Enough said.&#8221;
Jackson: &#8220;Two words - Lebon James.&#8221;
Welp, I&#8217;m confused. Can I infer any kind of analysis from this? Does MacMullan mean to say the Mo Williams acquisition is the missing piece to propel the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who won the debates? A tally of public figure opinion</title>
		<link>http://blogs.whereistand.com/gethro/87</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.whereistand.com/gethro/87#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gethro</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[debates]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[joe biden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[john mccain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sarah palin]]></category>

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whereIstand.com aggregates the opinions on public figures on a variety of issues and for the last month, wIs researchers have been steadily tracking pundits, politicians, columnists, TV personalities, celebrities and bloggers to see which candidate they thought won each debate. To see a comprehensive list of all public figures click on the links for each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>whereIstand on ESPN Radio&#8217;s Mike and Mike in the Morning</title>
		<link>http://blogs.whereistand.com/gethro/86</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.whereistand.com/gethro/86#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gethro</dc:creator>
		
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My Uncle emailed me this morning at 7:51 a.m with some exciting stuff:
Subject Line:  Mike and Mike
Body: Talking about Where I Stand this morning - at 7 51 eastern time
Sure enough, I went back and listened to this morning&#8217;s show on ESPN Radio&#8217;s Archive Page for Mike and Mike and listened to Golic butcher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baseball Predictions: Sports Media Accuracy (End of Season)</title>
		<link>http://blogs.whereistand.com/gethro/84</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.whereistand.com/gethro/84#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gethro</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Baseball]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Predictions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[whereIstand]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

At Major League Basbeall&#8217;s mid-season, The Big Lead&#8217;s Jason McIntyre and ProJo columnist/ESPN analyst Sean McAdam occupied the top spots in our first edition of the prediction accuracy rankings.
The most accurate were rewarded for picking four of six teams in first on July 1: Angels, Phillies, Cubs and Diamondbacks. These teams were popular preseason picks, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outdated: Should Tom Brady be the first QB picked in fantasy drafts?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.whereistand.com/gethro/83</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.whereistand.com/gethro/83#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gethro</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fantasy Sports]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Football]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[whereIstand]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Buffalo Bills]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Tom Brady]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Should Tom Brady be the first quarterback chosen in 2008 fantasy football drafts? [37 opinions]
Welp, that issue sure dated it self quickly, huh? I should probably archive this issue so no one else can take a stand on it. Suffice it to say, Brady won&#8217;t be servicing his fantasy owners the way they had hoped. [...]]]></description>
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