memeorandum: Gay rights bill dies in Indiana Senate, but leader pledges to revisit issue next year (Indianapolis Star)

6:20 PM ET, February 2, 2016

Top Items:

Scott Brown to endorse Trump — MILFORD, N.H. — Former Massachusetts senator Scott P. Brown, a moderate Republican who two years ago ran for Senate in New Hampshire, will endorse Donald Trump at a rally here Tuesday night, one week before the state's presidential primary.

Discussion: Power Line, RedState, FiveThirtyEight, Talking Points Memo, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Hot Air, Boston Globe, Mediaite, Political Wire, The Daily Caller and The Week

John McCormack / Weekly Standard:

Why Trump Lost Iowa — Evangelicals come through for Cruz. — West Des Moines, Iowa — All of the televisions in the Sheraton ballroom at Donald Trump's caucus watch party were turned to CNN when the news arrived a little after 9:00 p.m. local time. With 97 percent of precincts reporting …

Discussion: Washington Post, RedState, Bloomberg Business, The Stream, ABC News, Right Wing Watch, Hot Air, The Resurgent and WCCO | CBS Minnesota

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

Donald Trump Comes Out Of Iowa Looking Like Pat Buchanan — On Monday, Iowa voters did something that Republican “party elites” had failed to do for more than seven months: They rejected Donald Trump. — Trump received 24 percent of the vote in the Iowa caucuses, placing him closer …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, New York Times, Mediaite, The Hill and Political Wire

Jason Clayworth / Des Moines Register:

Caucus turnout: Robust, record-setting and surprising — Iowa's 2016 caucus attendance was a doozy. — Republicans counted more than 180,000 caucusgoers, topping their 2012 attendance record of 121,503 by an estimated 60,000 people. — And while Democratic numbers weren't completely tallied …

Discussion: Reason, Breitbart, Washington Post, New York Post, The Week, ThinkProgress, Morning Consult, USA Today, Washington Monthly, Common Dreams, Instapundit, Scared Monkeys and FiveThirtyEight

Hunter Walker / Yahoo:

Sarah Palin talks about Trump's Iowa loss and whether they've discussed running together — DES MOINES, Iowa — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin ® flew out of Iowa on Tuesday after traveling there to campaign with presidential hopeful Donald Trump. — Yahoo News spoke to Palin …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:

13 Quick Takeaways From The 2016 Iowa Caucuses — The Iowa caucuses finally took place last night, after months of Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns criss-crossing the state. Polls were volatile heading into caucus night. — 1) Ted Cruz, Take a Bow

Discussion: Fox News, RedState, Patterico's Pontifications and CNN

Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:

Trump breaks 15-hour Twitter silence — Ted Cruz's first-place finish in the Iowa caucuses Monday silenced Donald Trump for more than 15 hours. — By 11 a.m. Monday, Trump had declared to his millions of Twitter followers, “WE WILL FINALLY TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK AND MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Discussion: RedState, New York Times and addictinginfo.org

David Brooks / New York Times:
Donald Trump Isn't Real

Discussion: CNN, Mock Paper Scissors, No More Mister Nice Blog and Politico

James Oliphant / Reuters:
Marco Rubio emerges as champion of battered Republican establishment

Discussion: ThinkProgress, CNN, Vox, Washington Post and TIME

Glenn Thrush / Politico:
5 takeaways from the Iowa caucuses

Discussion: Right Wing Watch, Washington Post, America Rising, The Hill and Talking Points Memo

Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Christie belittles Rubio as ‘the boy in the bubble’

Discussion: The Atlantic, New York Times, Daily Kos and The Week

Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
The Effort To Turn Out Latino Voters In Iowa Worked

Discussion: Balloon Juice

Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Rivals Look to New Hampshire for a Shot at Breaking Donald Trump's Stride

Discussion: Political Wire and JustOneMinute

Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Here's what to expect in the New Hampshire Republican primary

Discussion: American Power

Michael C. Bender / Bloomberg Business:
Republican Establishment Finds Measure of Comfort in Trump Defeat

Discussion: Politico

William Whalen / Fox News:
Trump fever has broken. Cruz out-organized him. Here's what's next

Discussion: Hot Air

Sam Wang / Princeton Election Consortium:
Consequences of Iowa: Trump still strong, new life for Rubio, long-term trouble for Sanders

Discussion: Politico, Business Insider, Vox, Talking Points Memo, USA Today and Hullabaloo

Candace Smith / ABC News:
Jeb Bush and the Perils of High Expectations

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Associated Press, No More Mister Nice Blog and Hot Air

Jason Noble / Des Moines Register:

Sometimes, Iowa Democrats award caucus delegates with a coin flip — In a couple Democratic caucus precincts Monday, a delegate was awarded with a coin toss. — It happened in precinct 2-4 in Ames, where supporters of candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton disputed the results …

Karen Friar / MarketWatch:

Coin toss broke 6 Clinton-Sanders deadlocks in Iowa — and Hillary won each time — While it was hard to call a winner between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders last night, it's easy to say who was luckier. — The race between the Democrat presidential hopefuls was so tight …

Discussion: Telegraph, addictinginfo.org, The Daily Caller, Fox News, Washington Post, American Spectator, neo-neocon, The Week, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, WBAY-TV, RT, MichelleMalkin.com, Business Insider, The Hill, Gothamist, CBS New York and WTHI-TV

Sam Lau / Iowa Democratic Party:

Statement from IDP Chair on Tonight's Historically Close Caucus Results — DES MOINES—IDP Chair Dr. Andy McGuire released the following statement on tonight's 2016 Iowa Democratic Precinct Caucuses: — “Tonight we saw an historically close Iowa Democratic Caucus that featured …

Discussion: New York Times, FiveThirtyEight, The Huffington Post, CBS News, Slantpoint, Talking Points Memo, NPR, NBC News, Business Insider and Advocate

Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:

A Tie in Iowa Is a Win for Hillary — It sounds like laughable pro-Hillary spin but it's true. For Hillary Clinton, a virtual tie in Iowa was an accomplishment. — That's because, demographically, the Hawkeye State was her worst nightmare. Among the Democratic Party's three major constituencies …

Discussion: Guardian, Politico and The Daily Beast

Nate Cohn / New York Times:

Why a ‘Virtual Tie’ in Iowa Is Better for Clinton Than Sanders — Bernie Sanders is right: The Iowa Democratic caucuses were a “virtual tie,” especially after you consider that the results aren't even actual vote tallies, but state delegate equivalents subject to all kinds of messy rounding rules and potential geographic biases.

Discussion: Des Moines Register, Politico, Washington Post, New York Magazine, CNN, Shadowproof, Vox, FiveThirtyEight, Outside the Beltway, The Daily Caller, The Mahablog, PinkNews, Balloon Juice, Florida Politics, The Week and Scared Monkeys

Dan Roberts / Guardian:
Bernie Sanders wants raw vote count released after tight finish in Iowa caucuses

Discussion: The Hill, Salon, Talking Points Memo, Common Dreams, Vox, Mashable, Shakesville, The Huffington Post and Raw Story

Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The surprising success of Bernie Sanders's insurgency should be a wake-up call to the Democratic establishment

Discussion: Red Alert Politics, Guardian, Common Dreams, Washington Post and America Rising

Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Sanders rally chant: 'She's a liar!'

Discussion: RedState, Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit

Peter Weber / The Week:
Sorry, Bernie: A tie in Iowa is still a win for Hillary

Discussion: Vox, Outside the Beltway, New York Times, The Daily Beast, Booman Tribune, The Moderate Voice, ThinkProgress, Associated Press, TheStreet.com and Wall Street Journal

Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Declared Winner of Iowa Caucuses

Discussion: The Atlantic, Washington Post, NBC News, Campaign for America's Future, NPR, CNN and Taylor Marsh

John Wagner / Washington Post:
Sanders campaign reviewing Iowa caucus totals, says actual result may never be known

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Associated Press:
Clinton takes Iowa, beating back Sanders' strong challenge

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Advocate, USA Today, The Daily Caller and Vox

RT:
Clinton's lucky quarter: Democratic frontrunner wins 6 coin tosses in narrow Iowa caucus victory

Discussion: ABC News, ThinkProgress, Vocativ, The Week, Death and Taxes and Washington Blade

Annie Karni / Politico:
How Iowa went wrong for Hillary Clinton

Discussion: Hot Air, New York Times, Slantpoint, America Rising, Washington Post, CNN, ABC News, Yahoo Politics and Townhall.com

Harper Neidig / The Hill:

Cruz apologizes for spreading rumor about Carson dropping out — Iowa Republican caucus winner Ted Cruz on Tuesday apologized to fellow candidate GOP presidential Ben Carson for spreading a rumor that the former neurosurgeon had dropped out of the race. — “Last night when our political team saw …

Discussion: The Stream, The Last Refuge, The Week and CNN

Rush Limbaugh:
Reagan Conservatism Dominated Iowa

Discussion: The Right Scoop and Truth Revolt

Tessa Berenson / TIME:
Ben Carson Accuses Ted Cruz of Dirty Tricks at Iowa Caucuses

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, BizPac Review, Outside the Beltway, Mediaite, USA Today, Mashable, The Right Scoop, The Daily Caller and The Week

Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Ted Cruz Apologizes to Ben Carson For Spreading Word He Quit Race

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, American Spectator, CNNMoney, Hot Air and Fox News Insider

CNN:
First on CNN: Ted Cruz apologizes to Ben Carson

Discussion: RedState, Joe.My.God., Mediaite, Trail Blazers Blog, Refinery29, The Right Scoop, Politico, Talking Points Memo and Vocativ

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
BREAKING=> Carson Accuses Cruz Camp of FOUL PLAY - Told Voters Carson Was Dropping Out — WITH PROOF!

Discussion: RedState, BuzzFeed, Right, Business Insider, BizPac Review, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Joe.My.God.

Tori Floyd / Yahoo! News:

Woman Who Gets Waferless KitKat Demands Lifetime Supply — A woman is demanding a lifetime supply of KitKats after she bought a packet of the chocolatey treats without any wafer. — Saima Ahmad, 20, a law student from Enfield, north London, purchased a multipack of eight KitKat bars from a supermarket for £2 last month.

Discussion: Fox17 and WCTX-TV

Betsy Reed / The Intercept:

A Note to Readers — The Intercept recently discovered a pattern of deception in the actions of a staff member. The employee, Juan Thompson, was a staff reporter from November 2014 until last month. Thompson fabricated several quotes in his stories and created fake email accounts …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, Mashable and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »

Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:

Study Finds Republican Voter Suppression Is Even More Effective Than You Think — For years, researchers warned that laws requiring voters to show certain forms of photo identification at the poll would discriminate against racial minorities and other groups.

Discussion: Mediaite and Hullabaloo

Ann Zaniewski / Detroit Free Press:

DPS emergency manager Darnell Earley to step down — Embattled Detroit Public Schools emergency manager Darnell Earley is leaving his job Feb. 29, according to the governor's office. — Gov. Rick Snyder will appoint a transition leader by the end of the month.