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12:00 AM ET, February 1, 2016

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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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Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Cruz Fighting For His Life in Iowa  —  “I believe this night is historic,” Ted Cruz pronounced, more than once.  —  More than an hour and a half after Cruz's campaign rally Saturday night began, the Texas senator was celebrating the endorsement he'd received from a group called the Tea Party Patriots.
Tim Alberta / National Review:
Associated Press:
Trump, wife attend services the last Sunday before caucuses
Discussion: RedState and The Daily Caller
Marisa Schultz / New York Post:
Trump winning over Latino Republicans, poll says
Associated Press:
In Final Iowa Blitz, an Outraged Clinton Channels Sanders
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Jennifer Shutt / Politico:
Trump hopes for reversal on same-sex-marriage
New York Times:
Ted Cruz Counters Donald Trump With Targeted Approach in Iowa
Discussion: The Hill and electionlawblog.org
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
The big Iowa test: Can Trump and Sanders turn enthusiasm into votes?
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump
Discussion: Associated Press
Jennifer Shutt / Politico:   Trump: Not essential that I win Iowa
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 …
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.
Discussion: ACASignups.net and Hullabaloo
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Trump: Cruz is a ‘total liar’
Jennifer Shutt / Politico:
Rubio tamps down expectations
Discussion: The Hill
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders's latest eye-popping crowd in Iowa  —  With just 48 hours left before Iowans head to their caucuses, Bernie Sanders held a massive rally in Iowa City on Saturday night.  —  Here's what it looked like: … Here's another view: … That is a massive amount of people.  Now, two caveats:
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Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Sanders raised $20 million in January
Discussion: New York Times and The Week
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
WTH? Band Sings Racist, America-Hating Song at Bernie Sanders Iowa Rally (VIDEO)
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 …
Ban Ki-Moon / New York Times:
Don't Shoot the Messenger, Israel  —  United Nations — IN Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, 2016 has begun much as 2015 ended — with unacceptable levels of violence and a polarized public discourse.  That polarization showed itself in the halls of the United Nations last week …
Quentin Fottrell / MarketWatch:
This is the atheist capital of America  —  If you don't believe in God, you might want to move to the Pacific Northwest.  —  Portland, Ore., is No. 1 on the list of metropolitan areas with the most religiously unaffiliated residents (42%), according to the nonpartisan and nonprofit Public …
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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Rebekah Metzler / CNN:
Dem candidates to attend New Hampshire town hall
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
MSNBC:
MSNBC to host New Hampshire Democratic debate
Discussion: Politico and Slantpoint
Jay Caruso / RedState:
On Eve Of The Caucus, Read How Donald Trump Ripped Off An Iowan Using Trump University  —  The irony of Donald Trump's campaign is that he is finding support largely among middle class white men, many of whom are working but worried about their jobs.  Others are doing work they normally don't, just to pay the bills.
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 …
Discussion: Fox17
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Microsoft on the hot seat in Iowa  —  Microsoft volunteered to provide the technology to help tally up the results of Iowa's caucus, free of charge.  Now it will be put to the test Monday night.  —  The contests in both parties are expected to go down to the wire.
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ABC News:
Iowa Caucuses 2016: How the Caucuses Work
Discussion: fox8.com and Bloomberg Business
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 …
Discussion: RedState
Thomas Fitzgerald / Philly.com:
Iowa town embodies immigrant divide  —  MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa - At the 3 p.m. shift change Friday, compact cars rimmed with road salt and dirt rolled up to the JBS Swift meatpacking plant, ranchera and salsa music trickling from a few rolled-down windows.  —  Hundreds of mostly brown-skinned …
 
 
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Boehner plans slate of fundraisers this year
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Anna Palmer / Politico:
Rubio's campaign has best fundraising quarter yet
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Donald Trump's Art of the Fail
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Trader exposes sexist horrors of the Wall Street ‘frat house’
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Discussion: The Week
Paul Sperry / New York Post:
‘This was all planned’: Former IG says Hillary, State Dept. are lying
Discussion: Power Line
 

 
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