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Poll: Sharp erosion in Clinton support among Democratic women — COLUMBUS, Ohio — Hillary Rodham Clinton is suffering rapid erosion of support among Democratic women — the voters long presumed to be her bedrock in her bid to become the nation's first female president.
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Ben Carson explains why he apologized to Donald Trump — Ben Carson is turning the other cheek. — The retired neurosurgeon explained his apology to Donald Trump in a new interview, saying that he was not questioning the real estate mogul's faith but rather talking about his own.
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The One-Man Roadshow of Donald Trump
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Daily Kos, The Gateway Pundit and Poynter.

Arnold Schwarzenegger to take over for Donald Trump on Celebrity Apprentice
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Poll: Trump, Carson top GOP race; Clinton leads Dems but support drops
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Clinton's Support Drops by a Third as Trump, Carson Surge in GOP Race
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McConnell's fall mandate: Keep calm, avert catastrophe — In a POLITICO interview, the Senate leader says the GOP can do big things — in 2017. Until then, his agenda is more modest. — Mitch McConnell wants his party playing the long game. — To hear the Senate majority leader tell it …
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The GOP at war — Forget presidential politics.
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GOP: Defund Planned Parenthood even if it didn't break the law
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Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo


Debt-Ridden Donald Trump Lost His “Ship Of Jewels” To A Saudi Prince — I'm sailing awaaaaay... Donald Trump has made a habit of criticizing the United States for allowing foreign countries to continue “eating our lunch,” a message he has pushed for nearly-thirty years.
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Mark Cuban: I could beat Trump AND Clinton — Mark Cuban to CNBC: I would crush Donald — Republican candidates will hit the stage Wednesday night in their next debate. CNBC's Eamon Javers reports Mark Cuban said he would crush Donald Trump if he were head to head with him in a race.
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What Kim Davis Is Saying Now About Marriage Licenses — Shares- — Play
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Kentucky clerk Kim Davis won't authorize licenses
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Religion News Service, The Atlantic and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times

Kentucky Clerk Allows Same-Sex Licenses, but Questions Legality
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Kim Davis stands ground, offers alternative
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Washington Post, ThinkProgress, Scared Monkeys, NBC News, Prairie Weather and Patterico's Pontifications


Democrats Lay Groundwork to Expand Use of ‘Super PACs’ — Democrats are laying the groundwork for an ambitious reorganization of their struggling network of “super PACs” that would exploit the loopholes and legal gray areas that Republicans have already used to raise hundreds of millions …
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Perry Gets Winnowed
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Off the Kuff, Texas Monthly and Addicting Info


Is Trump killing justice reform? — Don't look now, but The Donald is actually shaping American policy. — Criminal justice reform, a perennial lost cause for civil rights lefties, had its surprise bipartisan moment this year. Conservative Republican voices like anti-tax activist Grover Norquist …
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Washington Monthly, Front Page Magazine and Bloomberg View
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Rebel billionaires eager to follow Trump into politics
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The Ferguson Commission Has Released its Long-Awaited Report. Now What? — The Ferguson Commission wasn't built just to churn out a report. — Assembled by an executive order from Governor Jay Nixon, the commission's sixteen members have spent the past ten months compiling data, holding public hearings and listening to experts.
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Ferguson Commission Shines Light On Racially Divided St. Louis
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Inside Ethel Kennedy's cruel neglect of her troubled kids — Ethel Kennedy in 1969. — Since Robert F. Kennedy's assassination on June 6, 1968, his widow, Ethel, has been his torchbearer. Unlike her late sister-in-law, Jackie, she never remarried, never sought a path or identity that was hers alone.


Anthony Weiner's so gross even PR flacks are disgusted by him — Anthony Weiner is so toxic that the powerhouse public-relations firm that hired him is losing top-flight talent, sources tell The Post. — Arthur Schwartz, one of the top executives at MWW, quit after the p.r. firm put …
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Daily Mail, Mediaite and Washington Free Beacon


Biden Secretly Meets With Top Obama Bundler During New York Swing — The 28 hours Joe Biden spent in New York City at the end of last week were a whirlwind of activity—much of it feeding the mounting speculation that he is inching ever closer to launching a late-starting presidential campaign.


Russia shipping tanks into Syria, in ‘first clear sign of offensive weapons’ — Russia's military build-up in Syria has grown to include the shipment of a half-dozen highly sophisticated battle tanks — and more troops — a defense official told Fox News, in what the source called the …
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Child victims partly to blame in priest sex-abuse cases, Syracuse bishop testified — SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The victims of child-molesting priests are partly to blame for their own abuse, the bishop of Syracuse said in a sworn deposition that revealed his views on the church's sex abuse scandal.
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Raw Story and Friendly Atheist


Why is the media more interested in Hillary's email than in Jeb's profoundly dishonest tax pitch? — The formative experience of my political life was the 2000 presidential campaign, in which the media mercilessly persecuted Al Gore over a series of trivial exaggerations and now-forgotten pseudo-scandals …
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Mother Jones, Washington Monthly, Washington Post, New York Times and FiveThirtyEight


Cleaning Up After the Obama Team's Iran Deal — Show Tehran the ways it may lose what it won at the gaming tables in Vienna. — By — 'We couldn't have negotiated a better deal. " That is one of the two pillars of the Obama administration's argument in favor of its nuclear arrangement with Iran …