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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Trailhead : Halloween</title><link>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/archive/tags/Halloween/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Halloween</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.2)</generator><item><title>Defeated Optimism [UPDATED with correction]</title><link>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/archive/2007/11/28/defeated-optimism.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:15:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b38b617e-fbf1-4816-b2a6-f11ec83af8cb:313</guid><dc:creator>Chadwick Matlin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/comments/313.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/commentrss.aspx?PostID=313</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;UPDATE 3:15 p.m.: &lt;/b&gt;I have to retract this entire post, which was wholly inaccurate. The Edwards campaign called me to rightfully inform me that the question in the conference call was about whether Hillary Clinton's support had peaked in Iowa and the rest of the country. They then responded that the "Clinton machine is very formidable, and that's what it is." I misheard the question.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I deeply regret the error. You can find full audio of the call &lt;a href="http://i.timeinc.net/time/2007/swampland/Edwards_112807.mp3"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The original post, in strikethrough, is below:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;During a conference call with the Edwards campaign this
morning a reporter asked an innocuous question: Does the campaign think Edwards’
support has peaked in Iowa?&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;







&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Five seconds of silence followed. Finally, an Edwards staffer piped up. “Look, the Clinton machine is very formidable,
and that’s what it is.”&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Way to be confident, guys.&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.slate.com/blogs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=313" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/archive/tags/John+Edwards/default.aspx">John Edwards</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/archive/tags/Halloween/default.aspx">Halloween</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/archive/tags/Iowa/default.aspx">Iowa</category></item><item><title>Edwards Campaign Has Been Reading Too Much Onion</title><link>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/archive/2007/10/31/edwards-campaign-has-been-reading-too-much-em-onion-em.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:51:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b38b617e-fbf1-4816-b2a6-f11ec83af8cb:127</guid><dc:creator>Christopher Beam</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/comments/127.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/commentrss.aspx?PostID=127</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;From the communications team that brought you &lt;a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2176859/#comic"&gt;Snackgate 2008&lt;/a&gt;, here's the &lt;a href="https://johnedwards.com/action/contribute/scary"&gt;latest&lt;/a&gt; (Click to enlarge): &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://johnedwards.com/assets/site/scary-times.gif"&gt;&lt;img src="https://johnedwards.com/assets/site/scary-times.gif" align="left" border="1" height="355" width="400"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.slate.com/blogs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=127" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/archive/tags/John+Edwards/default.aspx">John Edwards</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/archive/tags/Halloween/default.aspx">Halloween</category></item></channel></rss>