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12:40 PM ET, February 5, 2016

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CNN:
Is New Hampshire about to flip the script for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders?  —  David Axelrod is CNN's senior political commentator and host of the podcast “The Axe Files.”  He was senior adviser to President Barack Obama and chief strategist for the 2008 and 2012 Obama campaigns.
Discussion: TheStreet.com
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Clinton and Sanders just had the election's most explosive exchange to date  —  The niceties are finished.  —  After a string of debates where Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders discussed (and occasionally disagreed about) the fine points of progressive policy, the two finally had a full-fledged throwdown Thursday night.
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Is Again Put on the Defensive Over Perceived Ties to Wall Street  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. — Hillary Clinton appeared frustrated.  —  Dozens of prominent economists and academic experts have endorsed her plans to regulate the financial sector.  Her policies would …
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
A Debate Between a Hedgehog and a Fox  —  Clinton and Sanders debate on January 18, 2016.  David Goldman / AP  —  With the New Hampshire primaries just days away, Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders met on a debate stage in Durham on Thursday.  In their first one-on-one matchup …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
MSNBC's Democratic debate is lowest rated of the season  —  MSNBC's feisty debate between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton received high marks from political observers, but not high ratings from ordinary viewers.  —  It was the lowest-rated debate of the 2016 election cycle by far, according to preliminary Nielsen data.
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Insiders: Bernie scored in debate with Wall Street slams
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Hillary Clinton's Problem Isn't That She's Not Progressive, It's That She's Cautious
Discussion: CNN, Vox and Slantpoint
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Our Man in New Hampshire: The Exit of Martin O'Malley
Discussion: Political Wire
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James Pindell / BostonGlobe.com:
New poll shows Rubio closing in on Trump  —  PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — With four days until New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary, the Republican contest is tightening at the top and churning in the middle as nearly a third of likely Republican voters say they could still change their mind …
Discussion: Political Wire
MJ Lee / CNN:
Trump on Cruz feud: 'I don't care about that anymore'  —  Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN)The day after accusing Ted Cruz of winning the Iowa caucuses unfairly and asking for a rematch in the state, Donald Trump says he's now over it.  —  “I'm so much into this, into New Hampshire …
Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Holds Substantial Lead in New Hampshire, According to Poll
Discussion: Slantpoint
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Now starring in a Christie ad: Rick Santorum
Alex Swoyer / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE-Voicemails: ‘Ben Carson Suspending Campaigning’; Cruz: ‘Accurate Report’
Allison Yang / New York's PIX11:
NYC crane collapse: 1 killed, 3 injured after crane falls on cars in TriBeCa  —  LOWER MANHATTAN — A massive crane collapsed onto a row of cars in TriBeCa Friday morning, killing one person and injuring three others.  —  Reports of the fallen crane at 40 Worth St., near Church Street …
Discussion: Q13 FOX News and WTVR-TV
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Thomas Tracy / New York Daily News:
At least one person killed, two seriously injured when construction crane collapses in lower Manhattan  —  One person was killed and two more were seriously injured when a construction crane tumbled onto a Tribeca street Friday morning, officials said.  —  The crane fell on a row of parked cars …
Discussion: The Atlantic, Joe.My.God. and USA Today
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Liberals Should Support a Trump Republican Nomination  —  He'd probably be a better president than his rivals.  —  The initial stupefaction and dismay with which liberals greeted Donald Trump's candidacy have slowly given way to feelings of Schadenfreude— reveling in the suffering of others …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Time for Chelsea Clinton's Easy Ride to End  —  When precisely did Chelsea Clinton complete her transition from a White House kid whom journalists agreed to treat as off-limits to a public figure deserving of the full scrutiny of the press corps?  —  The unsettling answer to the question appears to be, “Not yet.”
Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times:
In Iran, State-Backed Companies Win From Lifted Sanctions  —  TEHRAN — Only weeks into what was widely anticipated to be a helter-skelter, post-sanctions rush of Western money and expertise into Iran, limits to the country's opening are beginning to emerge as the conservative leadership seeks to limit the reach of Western influences.
Vox:
Donald Trump supporters think about morality differently than other voters.  Here's how.  —  Moral Foundations Theory was invented to compare different human cultures.  But it can also explain our political landscape.  —  How on Earth can anyone vote for that ...  [fill in the blank]?
Discussion: Mother Jones
A.B. Stoddard / The Hill:
Obama risks being stained by Clinton scandal  —  As new revelations make clear the intentional and likely criminal nature of Hillary Clinton's email scheme, President Obama is risking his legacy on a potentially devastating corruption scandal.  —  There is nothing to suggest Obama has intervened …
WTTG-TV:
3 cases of Zika virus, including 1 in pregnant woman, confirmed in DC  —  WASHINGTON - The D.C. Department of Health has confirmed three D.C. residents have been diagnosed with the Zika virus, including one case involving a pregnant woman.  —  “They do see their health care provider …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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Discussion: Political Wire
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Washington Post:
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