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Associated Press:
Bush Doing Whatever It Takes to Stay Relevant — Jeb Bush's supporters have spent $15 million on slickly produced ads to win over Iowa voters. Barely registering in the polls and increasingly desperate in the shadow of the Iowa caucuses, he's now trying a cost-free, personal tactic: hugs.
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Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:
Franklin Pierce-Herald Poll: Rivals need Iowa win to catch Trump, Sanders in N.H. — GOP presidential challengers Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and Democrat Hillary Clinton desperately need breakthroughs in Iowa tomorrow to overcome expanding leads held by Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Last Refuge and Political Wire
Associated Press:
Trump, wife attend services the last Sunday before caucuses — DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Latest on the 2016 race for president on the final weekend of campaigning before Monday's leadoff Iowa caucuses (all times local): — Republican presidential contender Donald Trump is looking to close …
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RedState and The Daily Caller
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Iowa poll reveals a line of attack that could sink Trump
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American Thinker, FiveThirtyEight, Fox News Insider, The Right Scoop and Bloomberg Business
Marisa Schultz / New York Post:
Trump winning over Latino Republicans, poll says
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The Gateway Pundit and Outside the Beltway
Jennifer Shutt / Politico:
Trump hopes for reversal on same-sex-marriage
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Human Rights Campaign, Raw Story, Advocate and Joe.My.God.
George Packer / New Yorker:
Living on the Edge — It's upon us. About one half …
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The Moderate Voice
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Microsoft on the hot seat in Iowa — Microsoft volunteered to provide the technology to help tally up the results of Iowa's caucus, free of charge. Now it will be put to the test Monday night. — The contests in both parties are expected to go down to the wire.
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders's latest eye-popping crowd in Iowa
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Taylor Marsh, Mediaite, JustOneMinute, The American Mirror, Common Dreams, New York Times and Mashable
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Sanders raised $20 million in January
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The Week, Yahoo Politics and New York Times
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Defiant Martin O'Malley insists he won't play Iowa kingmaker
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Fox host shreds Ted Cruz over Obamacare falsehoods: ‘More people have jobs and health insurance’ — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Fox News host Chris Wallace cornered Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Sunday about his claim that President Barack Obama's health care reform law had cost jobs.
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Associated Press:
Trump Loaned $10 Million to His Campaign Toward End of 2015 — Donald Trump's campaign filings show the billionaire show the Republican front-runner spent just $6.8 million in the final three months of last year. The outlay is less than half of what Ted Cruz, his nearest rival in the polls, spent during the same period.
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Trump: Cruz is a ‘total liar’
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Ted Cruz's Iowa Mailers Are More Fraudulent Than Everyone Thinks — Ted Cruz's Presidential campaign prides itself on being data-centric and on integrating insights from political science into its tactics. In 2008, academics at Yale published an influential paper showing …
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The Last Refuge, TIME, Booman Tribune, Washington Monthly, Mother Jones, Business Insider and electionlawblog.org
Quentin Fottrell / MarketWatch:
This is the atheist capital of America — If you don't believe in God, you might want to move to the Pacific Northwest. — Portland, Ore., is No. 1 on the list of metropolitan areas with the most religiously unaffiliated residents (42%), according to the nonpartisan and nonprofit Public …
Ban Ki-Moon / New York Times:
Don't Shoot the Messenger, Israel — United Nations — IN Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, 2016 has begun much as 2015 ended — with unacceptable levels of violence and a polarized public discourse. That polarization showed itself in the halls of the United Nations last week …
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Donald Trump Field Organizer Accuses Campaign of Sex Discrimination — DAVENPORT, Iowa — A former paid organizer for Donald J. Trump who was fired this month has accused his presidential campaign of sex discrimination. — Elizabeth Mae Davidson, 26, who was the Trump campaign's field organizer …
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Raw Story, Mediaite, Gothamist, The Hinterland Gazette, The Right Scoop, The Moderate Voice and Talking Points Memo
Thomas Fitzgerald / Philly.com:
Iowa town embodies immigrant divide — MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa - At the 3 p.m. shift change Friday, compact cars rimmed with road salt and dirt rolled up to the JBS Swift meatpacking plant, ranchera and salsa music trickling from a few rolled-down windows. — Hundreds of mostly brown-skinned …
John B. Judis / Vox:
This election could be the birth of a Trump-Sanders constituency — It's time for the Washington elite to wake up and listen to what these voters are responding to. — Primary voters going to the polls starting next week face the prospect of voting for candidates who have been unseen …
Olaf Ekberg / The American Mirror:
OMG: NAACP leader uses F-word to apologize for using T-word after N-word meeting — The NAACP's mission of political correctness and equality careened off the rails this week when a local president complimented a TV reporters breasts during an interview. — Don Harris, the president …
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RedState
Rebekah Metzler / CNN:
Dem candidates to attend New Hampshire town hall — Watch CNN's New Hampshire Democratic town hall live at 8:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday — (CNN)The Democratic presidential hopefuls will make closing arguments to New Hampshire voters Wednesday during a prime-time CNN town hall in Derry …
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Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
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