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Nick Gass / Politico:
Sanders: Endorsements prove Clinton ‘candidate of the establishment’ — Hillary Clinton has 31 endorsements in the United States Senate, a body in which her chief rival Bernie Sanders serves. Sanders, meanwhile, who sits at zero such endorsements, said that fact speaks volumes …
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Michelle Goldberg / Slate:
Men Explain Hillary to Me — Sexism does shape perceptions of Clinton. But try telling that to some Sanders supporters. — This week Salon writer Daniel Denvir wrote about how Hillary Clinton “sold out working women” by supporting welfare reform during her husband's administration.
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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Carson Criticizes Media for Questioning His Biography — Republican presidential candidate stepped up his criticism of coverage of his campaign, including an article in The Wall Street Journal — Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Sunday stepped up his criticism of media coverage …
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Ben Carson's Psychology Test Story Gets Even Weirder
Ben Carson's Psychology Test Story Gets Even Weirder
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Dr. Ben Carson / Facebook:
On Saturday a reporter with the Wall Street Journal published …
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Bachmann: Jesus is ‘coming soon’ — Former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) calls in an interview for converting as many people as possible to Christianity because Jesus is “coming soon.” — The 2012 Republican presidential candidate made the comments in a radio interview last week with Tony Perkins …
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Ted Cruz Sets Sights on ‘Moderate’ Marco Rubio — With the two Republican presidential hopefuls on the rise, the Texas hardliner is subtly trying to undermine his rival. — For Ted Cruz, the single biggest obstacle to winning the Republican nomination may not be outsider candidates Donald Trump …
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Kelly Riddell / Washington Times:
Republicans' media bias claims boosted by scarcity of right-leaning journalists — A mere 7 percent of journalists identify as Republicans, and when they do give money to political campaigns they usually donate to Democrats, lending evidence to Republican presidential candidates' claims …
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Milo Yiannopoulos / Breitbart:
Only Conservatives Can Save The American Campus-But Should We? — What does it take to generate a rabid, Maoist-style mob demanding political purges, on an Ivy League campus, in 2015? An email defending “offensive” Halloween costumes, apparently. — That's what kicked off the latest nadir …
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Liam Stack / New York Times:
Yale's Halloween Advice Stokes a Racially Charged Debate — Weeks of simmering racial tension at Yale University boiled over in recent days into a heated debate over whether the administration was sensitive enough to concerns about Halloween costumes seen as culturally offensive, students and adminstrators said.
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Erick Erickson / RedState:
Why Republican Candidates Must Always Be Better Than Their Democratic Opponent — A candidate for President had a childhood mentor who had been a Nazi. The candidate made up key details about his life and relationships. He attended a church whose pastor routinely attacked the United States …
Jill Lepore / New Yorker:
Politics and the New Machine — “I am who I am,” Donald J. Trump said in August, on the eve of this season's first G.O.P. Presidential debate, and what he meant by that was this: “I don't have a pollster.” The word “pollster,” when it was coined, was meant as a slur, like “huckster.”
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Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Inside the abandoned plans of Ted Cruz's super PACs — Cruz: I tried to rescue my sister from a crack house — Keep the Promise II has not reserved any television time and has no plans to air advertisements until March or April — Washington (CNN)Ted Cruz enjoys millions of dollars …
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ESPN:
Gary Pinkel: ‘We are united’ after black players threaten boycott over racial incidents — 14h - COLLEGE FOOTBALL SHELDON RICHARDSON MISSOURI TIGERS + more
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Scott Gleeson / USA Today:
Missouri football players to boycott until president Tim Wolfe resigns
Missouri football players to boycott until president Tim Wolfe resigns
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Fiorina defends lack of policy proposals — GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina says her lack of a concrete policy proposal is not an impediment to her presidential campaign. — “How often do politicians put out detailed plans? How often do they get enacted?