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4:40 PM ET, January 31, 2016

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George Packer / New Yorker:
Living on the Edge  —  It's upon us.  About one half of one per cent of all registered voters in the United States—ninety-six per cent of them likely to be white, a hundred per cent certain to live in Iowa or New Hampshire—will now exercise their inalienable, God-given …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
The big Iowa test: Can Trump and Sanders turn enthusiasm into votes?  —  DES MOINES — With campaign events all across Iowa on Saturday overflowing with voters, the Republican and Democratic contests have been reduced to the same question: Can the muscle of traditional and methodical organizing overcome …
Discussion: Politico
Associated Press:
Turnout Is Name of the Game in Monday's Iowa Caucuses
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and The Stream
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump
Discussion: Associated Press
Jennifer Shutt / Politico:
Rubio tamps down expectations
Discussion: Political Wire and The Hill
Jennifer Shutt / Politico:   Trump: Not essential that I win Iowa
Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Donald Trump reclaims lead in latest Iowa Poll
Patrick Healy / New York Times:   Iowa Will Gauge Ardor to Upend Politics as Usual
Paul Sperry / New York Post:
‘This was all planned’: Former IG says Hillary, State Dept. are lying  —  The State Department is lying when it says it didn't know until it was too late that Hillary Clinton was improperly using personal e-mails and a private server to conduct official business — because it never set …
Discussion: Power Line
Johnmorenoktla / KTLA:
Ohio Seminary Student Arrested at San Diego Airport, Allegedly Sought Sex With Infants  —  WARNING: This article contains descriptions of an alleged crime whose details may be disturbing to some readers.  —  A 23-year-old Ohio man was arrested by federal agents in San Diego on Friday …
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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Dan Merica / CNN:
Clinton: Sanders' health care plan ‘will never, ever come to pass’
Discussion: Slantpoint and ACASignups.net
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Cruz mailer, inspired by political scientists, is condemned by Iowa secretary of state
Discussion: BuzzFeed
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Sanders raised $20 million in January  —  The Bernie Sanders campaign said it raised $20 million this month from a record-setting legion of small donors.  —  More than 770,000 people gave to the Vermont senator's bid in January, with online contributions averaging just $27, the campaign said.
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 …
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
WTH?  Band Sings Racist, America-Hating Song at Bernie Sanders Iowa Rally (VIDEO)  —  This is the kind of music they play at a Bernie Sanders Socialist rally.  —  Vampire Weekend, the uber popular band, played before Bernie Sanders spoke last night at the University of Iowa — making the rally really more of a concert with a speech.
MSNBC:
MSNBC to host New Hampshire Democratic debate  —  MSNBC announced Sunday that it will hold a Democratic presidential debate Thursday, Feb. 4, in New Hampshire ahead of the first-in-the-nation primary.  —  The debate will take place at the University of New Hampshire in Durham at 9 p.m. Eastern …
Discussion: Politico, CNN and Slantpoint
Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
First on CNN: Main Cruz super PACs struggled to raise money in fall and winter  —  (CNN)The main super PACs supporting Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's presidential campaign only raised a few million dollars in the second half of 2015, a modest sum that far trails the huge checks they collected in the opening days of the campaign.
Discussion: The Week
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Trump, Sanders and the Revolt Against Decadence  —  ONE of the puzzles of the 2016 campaign, unexpectedly defined by the ascent of a billionaire reality TV star and a septuagenarian Vermont socialist, is why now?  Yes, voters are angry, yes, they're exhausted and disgusted and cynical about everything.
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Jennifer Shutt / Politico:
Trump hopes for reversal on same-sex-marriage  —  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Sunday that he disagrees with the Supreme Court's decision to legalize same-sex marriage and hopes that it could be changed in the future.  —  “It has been ruled upon.  It has been there.
 
 
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Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
Trader exposes sexist horrors of the Wall Street ‘frat house’
Discussion: Gothamist
John O'Sullivan / Wall Street Journal:
Election 2016: The Life of the Party
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Clinton Iowa Volunteers Train When To Push Backers To O'Malley — To Block Bernie
Discussion: AOL and Iowa Starting Line
Thomas Fuller / New York Times:
Unemployed, Myanmar's Elephants Grow Antsy, and Heavier
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Mead Gruver / Associated Press:
Liz Cheney To Run For Wyoming's US House Seat
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Balloon Juice
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
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