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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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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
The big Iowa test: Can Trump and Sanders turn enthusiasm into votes?
The big Iowa test: Can Trump and Sanders turn enthusiasm into votes?
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New York Times and Politico
Associated Press:
Turnout Is Name of the Game in Monday's Iowa Caucuses
Turnout Is Name of the Game in Monday's Iowa Caucuses
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Politico, ABC News and The Stream
Jennifer Shutt / Politico:
Trump: Not essential that I win Iowa
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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The Last Refuge and Political Wire
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George Packer / New Yorker:
Living on the Edge — It's upon us. About one half …
Living on the Edge — It's upon us. About one half …
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The Moderate Voice
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump
‘This Week’ Transcript: Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump
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Associated Press
Janie Velencia / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump And Hillary Clinton Lead Iowa Caucus Poll
Donald Trump And Hillary Clinton Lead Iowa Caucus Poll
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RedState, FiveThirtyEight, Bloomberg Business, Slantpoint, Prairie Weather, Daily Kos, The Right Scoop and Taylor Marsh
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Iowa Will Gauge Ardor to Upend Politics as Usual
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 …
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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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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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 …
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Power Line
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
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 …
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Politico and Slantpoint
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Rebekah Metzler / CNN:
Dem candidates to attend New Hampshire town hall
Dem candidates to attend New Hampshire town hall
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Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
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.
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Little Green Footballs
Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
Trader exposes sexist horrors of the Wall Street ‘frat house’ — When Maureen Sherry resigned from Bear Stearns after 10 years, she was given a going-away party, a sizable check — and a nondisclosure agreement. — “The legal department gave me this document to sign,” she says …
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Gothamist
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.
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New York Times, Political Wire and The Week
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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Human Rights Campaign, Raw Story, Advocate and Joe.My.God.