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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
How Clinton is plotting to go after Trump — DES MOINES — It's tunnel-vision time for Hillary Clinton as she battles Bernie Sanders here — but she's casting some serious side-eye in Donald Trump's direction. — After months of laughing off Trump — and assuming his ascent would propel …
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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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CNN, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Last Refuge and Political Wire
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Hillary Clinton May Win Iowa After All
Hillary Clinton May Win Iowa After All
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TalkLeft and The Mahablog
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Defiant Martin O'Malley insists he won't play Iowa kingmaker
Defiant Martin O'Malley insists he won't play Iowa kingmaker
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Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Bloomberg Business, CNN, Iowa Starting Line, Balloon Juice and New York Times
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders's latest eye-popping crowd in Iowa
Bernie Sanders's latest eye-popping crowd in Iowa
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Taylor Marsh, Mediaite, JustOneMinute, The American Mirror, New York Times, Common Dreams and Mashable
Marisa Schultz / New York Post:
Trump winning over Latino Republicans, poll says
Trump winning over Latino Republicans, poll says
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The Gateway Pundit and Outside the Beltway
Associated Press:
In Final Iowa Blitz, an Outraged Clinton Channels Sanders
In Final Iowa Blitz, an Outraged Clinton Channels Sanders
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ABC News, WCTX-TV, Politico and Associated Press
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Sanders raised $20 million in January
Sanders raised $20 million in January
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Yahoo Politics, New York Times and The Week
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP braces for a post-Iowa collision — DES MOINES, IOWA - The bruised and battered Republican Party establishment is bracing for a collision - with the candidates running under its banner. — With the GOP political class growing increasingly worried that insurgents Donald Trump and Ted Cruz …
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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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ABC News, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Other McCain, The Resurgent, Politico and BuzzFeed
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
GOP candidates start limping in the money race — Jeb Bush's fundraising juggernaut has run out of steam, Ben Carson's money machine has cranked down, and Chris Christie and Rand Paul have just a little more than $1 million in each of their campaign bank accounts.
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The Week, Washington Post and Political Wire
Associated Press:
Among GOP Rivals to Trump and Cruz, Rubio Has Most Cash — Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, John Kasich and Chris Christie, the four Republican candidates in a showdown for their party's traditional supporters, closed last year with roughly as much money in the bank combined as Ted Cruz, the conservative insurgent they hope to topple.
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Political Wire and ABC News
Anna Palmer / Politico:
Rubio's campaign has best fundraising quarter yet
Rubio's campaign has best fundraising quarter yet
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Washington Post
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Iowa poll reveals a line of attack that could sink Trump — DES MOINES — The final poll ahead of Monday's caucuses showed Donald Trump rallying to a five-point lead over Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, with two days to go before voting, but it also revealed a line of attack that could sink Trump.
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Associated Press:
Trump, wife attend services the last Sunday before caucuses
Trump, wife attend services the last Sunday before caucuses
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RedState and The Daily Caller
Tim Alberta / National Review:
The ‘Magic Number’ That Could Decide Trump vs. Cruz in Iowa
The ‘Magic Number’ That Could Decide Trump vs. Cruz in Iowa
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Florida Politics and The Stream
Jennifer Shutt / Politico:
Trump hopes for reversal on same-sex-marriage
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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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Trump: Cruz is a ‘total liar’
Trump: Cruz is a ‘total liar’
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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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The Last Refuge, TIME, Booman Tribune, Washington Monthly, Business Insider, Mother Jones and electionlawblog.org
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.
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 …
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 …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Wind, Sun and Fire — So what's really at stake in this year's election? Well, among other things, the fate of the planet. — Last year was the hottest on record, by a wide margin, which should — but won't — put an end to climate deniers' claims that global warming has stopped.
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
How Trump Did It — What they heard as they ate deli sandwiches around Donald Trump's hulking, wooden conference table sounded like the businessman's typical bravado. These 25 New York political operatives had come to ask him to run for governor. But Trump had another plan—a very specific plan—to run for president.
Joe Weisenthal / Bloomberg Business:
BofA: The Oil Crash Is Kicking Off One of the Largest Wealth Transfers In Human History — A $3 trillion shift. — Economists are still hotly debating whether the oil crash has been a net positive for advanced economies. — Optimists argue that cheap oil is a good thing for consumers …
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