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Associated Press:
Republicans Prefer an Outsider Candidate, AP-GfK Poll Finds — A huge majority of Republican voters prefer an outsider candidate to one with experience in Washington, and most see political rookies Donald Trump and Ben Carson as possible general election winners, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll.
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Adam Sneed / Politico:
Carson: I'm not super low energy, just soft-spoken — <p>Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says rival Donald Trump has him all wrong.</p><p>"I have plenty of energy. But, you know, I am soft-spoken. I do have a tendency to be relaxed," Carson said in an interview aired Sunday on NBC's “Meet The Press.”
Nancy LeTourneau / Washington Monthly:
Team Bush in a Fog — As Ed Kilgore noted on Friday, Jeb Bush's campaign is facing tough times right now. It has been widely reported that the Bush family and Jeb's major donors are getting together in Houston this weekend and its not entirely clear whether their time will be spent rallying …
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Raw Story and bradford-delong.com
New York Times:
Bush at 91: Irritated and Invigorated by '16 Race — He has given up his “C.S.I.” reruns, consuming campaign coverage on Fox News — intently but fretfully — when he is perched in front of the television in his Houston home. — He reads three print newspapers daily …
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Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Trump mocks Jeb, Rubio on their home turf in Florida — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Saturday mocked fellow contenders Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) at a rally in their home state of Florida. — Trump teased Bush, a former Florida governor …
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ABC News and Associated Press
David Jackson / USA Today:
Jeb Bush says he is making campaign ‘adjustment’
Jeb Bush says he is making campaign ‘adjustment’
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Mediaite, The Daily Banter, Daily Mail, Hot Air, Balloon Juice and Slantpoint
Ashley Killough / CNN:
In shadow of campaign shakeup, Bush tears into Trump
In shadow of campaign shakeup, Bush tears into Trump
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New York Times and Washington Post
Will Femia / MSNBC:
Jeb Bush on rumored campaign death spiral: ‘Blah, blah, blah’
Jeb Bush on rumored campaign death spiral: ‘Blah, blah, blah’
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New York Times and Mediaite
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Obama fuels the flames of the anti-cop movement — At a White House discussion about improving the relationship between police departments and black Americans, President Obama declared that “the moment is here.” — He meant a chance for big change, and that's the problem.
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BizPac Review
Investor's Business Daily:
IRS' Lois Lerner Skates; An Ugly Precedent Is Set — The Law: The Justice Department declined to file charges against IRS enforcer Lois Lerner, who singled out Tea Party groups for scrutiny on political grounds. With no accountability, it's now open season on dissidents.
MaryAlice Parks / ABC News:
Bernie Sanders Blasts Clinton Record on Gay Rights, Keystone, Free Trade — Senator Bernie Sanders delivered his sharpest criticism to date of Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton tonight at the Iowa Democratic Party's historic Jefferson-Jackson dinner. — The Vermont senator …
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Mediaite, Taylor Marsh and Bloomberg Business
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / Washington Post:
Helmet camera footage shows joint U.S. Delta Force-Kurdish raid to rescue Islamic State hostages — A video first posted Saturday by Rudaw, a Kurdish news site, purportedly shows footage of the joint U.S.-Kurdish raid that freed about 70 hostages from an Islamic State prison in northern Iraq early Thursday morning.
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BizPac Review and Daily Mail
Anita Gates / New York Times:
Maureen O'Hara, Irish-Born Actress Known as Queen of Technicolor, Dies at 95 — Maureen O'Hara, the spirited Irish-born actress who played strong-willed, tempestuous beauties opposite all manner of adventurers in escapist movies of the 1940s and '50s, died on Saturday at her home in Boise, Idaho.
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Scared Monkeys, The PJ Tatler and Mashable
Amy Brittain / Washington Post:
On duty, under fire — A Wisconsin trooper faced down a gunman who planned to go out fighting — Stopped in his patrol cruiser, Trooper Trevor Casper searched for a gray Toyota Corolla on a busy stretch of Highway 41. Behind the wheel was Steven Timothy Snyder, a bank robber and killer on the run.
The Advocate:
Man arrested after trying to record Jefferson Sheriff Newell Normand and his breakfast club; sheriff suspects David Vitter behind it — The arrest could have been ripped from a Hollywood script, playing out on the eve of a statewide election. But was it a drama or a comedy?
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Talking Points Memo and RedState
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Vitter rivals pounce after private investigator's arrest
Vitter rivals pounce after private investigator's arrest
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Political Wire
Jimmy Carter / New York Times:
A Five-Nation Plan to End the Syrian Crisis — I HAVE known Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria, since he was a college student in London, and have spent many hours negotiating with him since he has been in office. This has often been at the request of the United States government during …
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