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Associated Press:
Bush Doing Whatever It Takes to Stay Relevant — Jeb Bush's supporters have spent $15 million on slickly produced ads to win over Iowa voters. Barely registering in the polls and increasingly desperate in the shadow of the Iowa caucuses, he's now trying a cost-free, personal tactic: hugs.
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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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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Last Refuge and Political Wire
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.
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FiveThirtyEight, RedState, Hot Air, Daily Kos and The Right Scoop
Associated Press:
Trump, wife attend services the last Sunday before caucuses
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RedState and The Daily Caller
Marisa Schultz / New York Post:
Trump winning over Latino Republicans, poll says
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The Gateway Pundit and Outside the Beltway
Jennifer Shutt / Politico:
Trump hopes for reversal on same-sex-marriage
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Human Rights Campaign, Raw Story, Advocate and Joe.My.God.
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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ACASignups.net and Hullabaloo
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Associated Press:
Trump Loaned $10 Million to His Campaign Toward End of 2015 — Donald Trump's campaign filings show the billionaire show the Republican front-runner spent just $6.8 million in the final three months of last year. The outlay is less than half of what Ted Cruz, his nearest rival in the polls, spent during the same period.
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Trump: Cruz is a ‘total liar’
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Politico, Washington Post and New York Times
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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Washington Monthly, The Last Refuge, TIME, Booman Tribune, Mother Jones, Business Insider, electionlawblog.org and Fox News
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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Taylor Marsh, Mediaite, JustOneMinute, The American Mirror, Common Dreams, New York Times, Mashable and Bloomberg Business
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Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Sanders raised $20 million in January
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Yahoo Politics, New York Times and The Week
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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Mediaite, The Hinterland Gazette, Raw Story, The Right Scoop, Gothamist, The Moderate Voice and Talking Points Memo
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 …
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The Moderate Voice
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Rebekah Metzler / CNN:
Dem candidates to attend New Hampshire town hall
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Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
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 …
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Fox17
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
Ben Knight / Guardian:
Teenage girl ‘made up’ migrant rape claim that outraged Germany — Claim of Russian-German girl known as Lisa in German media sparked far-right protests and a Berlin police spat with Kremlin — A 13-year-old Russian-German girl has admitted making up a story about being kidnapped and raped …
Discussion:
Mashable and Dean's World
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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