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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 …

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Dan Roberts / Guardian:

Bernie Sanders wants raw vote count released after tight finish in Iowa caucuses — Dramatic clash with Hillary Clinton for Democratic presidential nomination is sign public want change, says leftwing senator — Bernie Sanders has called on the Democratic party to release a raw vote count …

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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 …

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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 …

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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Why a ‘Virtual Tie’ in Iowa Is Better for Clinton Than Sanders

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

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Des Moines Register:
Last Slide — In an unknown number of Iowa Democratic caucus …

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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Sanders refuses to concede defeat in Iowa

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

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

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

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

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

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Robert Costa / Washington Post:

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.

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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

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

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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
5 takeaways from the Iowa caucuses

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FOX News Radio:
2016 Iowa Caucus Results Dashboard

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

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

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

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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 …

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 …

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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump breaks 15-hour Twitter silence

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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 …

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Rush Limbaugh:
Reagan Conservatism Dominated Iowa

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

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Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Carson Camp: Cruz Apology Is Too Little, Too Late

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

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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 …

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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo: The Intercept Says Ex-Staffer ‘Went To Great Lengths’ To Fake Stories

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.

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Julian Hattem / The Hill:

Kerry sent ‘secret’ email to Clinton from personal account — As a senator, Secretary of State John Kerry sent at least one email to Hillary Clinton from his personal account that has now been classified as secret, the State Department confirmed on Tuesday.

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ABC News: Kerry Used Private Email to Send Clinton Now Classified Info

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.

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Paul Egan / Detroit Free Press:

FBI joins Flint drinking water investigation — The FBI is now investigating the contamination of Flint's drinking water, a man-made public health catastrophe, which has left an unknown number of Flint children and other residents poisoned by lead and resulted in state and federal emergency declarations.

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Ann Zaniewski / Detroit Free Press:
DPS emergency manager Darnell Earley to step down

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Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:

The Effort To Turn Out Latino Voters In Iowa Worked — After dismal Latino turnout numbers in Iowa the past two presidential caucuses, early indications suggest that a $300,000 nonpartisan effort to get Hispanics to caucus succeeded in getting record turnout.

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