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8:00 AM ET, March 2, 2016

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Associated Press:
Viewer's Guide: After Super Tuesday, Cold Hard Delegate Math  —  Presidential candidates will wake up Wednesday morning to the cold, hard truth of delegate math.  It might give the front-runners some breathing room, but for the rest of the field the truth may hurt.
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and Yahoo Politics
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Donald Trump drives GOP's record turnout; Democrats lack enthusiasm  —  Republicans continued to shatter turnout records in their presidential primaries and caucuses Tuesday, while Democrats lagged behind in what analysts said was a clear indication of an enthusiasm gap heading into the general election.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Anna Palmer / Politico:
Top Rubio adviser preparing donors for dismal Super Tuesday  —  Marco Rubio's top campaign adviser huddled with roughly 40 bundlers and K Streeters Tuesday morning to prepare them for a difficult primary election night—as well as to brief them on the campaign's plan for what to do next.
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Five Reasons Trump Is Weaker Than He Looks
Discussion: USA Today, New York Magazine and Vox
Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
Establishment Republicans Are Furious With John Kasich
Discussion: The Week
NBC News:
As It Happened: Relive Super Tuesday Action
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Sanders Campaign Will Travel On, but Path to Victory Is All but Blocked  —  Bernie Sanders has vowed to fight for the presidential nomination until the Democratic convention, but the results this evening suggest that he is not anywhere close to being on track to amass a majority of pledged delegates.
Discussion: Hit & Run
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New York Times:
Who Will Win Super Tuesday?  Live Estimates of Tonight's Final Republican Delegate Count  —  LAST UPDATED AT 7:20 PM ET  —  We're simulating the number of delegates each candidate will pick up on Super Tuesday.  The dots above represent a range of possible outcomes.
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Super Tuesday Democratic primaries: Clinton projected to win in 7 states, Sanders in 4
New York Times:   Minority Voters Push Hillary Clinton to Victories
Mother Jones:
Live Super Tuesday Updates: Trump and Clinton Rack Up Wins
Discussion: Washington Post
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump: Ryan can get along with me or ‘pay a big price’  —  (R-Wis.) that he'll have to pay the price if he doesn't get along with Trump as president after Ryan repudiated him for failing to disavow an endorsement from David Duke.  —  “I'm going to get along great with Congress.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Republican Group to Intensify Campaign Against Trump
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Republican Business Leaders Look to Raise Money to Stop Trump
Paul Singer / USA Today:
Seven N.J. newspapers call on Christie to resign  —  48 Shares  —  Seven New Jersey newspapers issued a joint editorial Tuesday calling on Gov. Chris Christie to resign in the wake of his failed presidential campaign and his subsequent endorsement of rival Donald Trump.
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Asbury Park Press:
Step down, Gov. Christie  —  What an embarrassment.  What an utter disgrace.  —  We're fed up with Gov. Chris Christie's arrogance.  —  We're fed up with his opportunism.  —  We're fed up with his hypocrisy.  —  We're fed up with his sarcasm.  —  We're fed up with his long neglect …
Ryan Hutchins / Politico:
New poll shows Christie approval in New Jersey at lowest point  —  Gov. Chris Christie's approval rating in New Jersey sits at its lowest point since taking office, tying the 30 percent mark registered last June, according to the latest poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University's Public Mind released on Wednesday.
Discussion: Florida Politics
Jordan Rudner / The Texas Tribune:
Travis County GOP Apoplectic Over New Chairman … The newly elected chair of the Republican Party in the county that includes the Texas Capitol spent most of election night tweeting about former Gov. Rick Perry's sexual orientation and former President Bill Clinton's penis …
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Edward Rollins / Fox News:
Trump is now unstoppable. It's game over for Cruz, Rubio, Kasich and Carson
Discussion: Washington Post
USA Today:
Tavis Smiley: Black America could get on Trump train  —  Hillary might look like a shoo-in with African-American voters, but don't be too sure.  —  With Hillary Clinton racking up more overwhelming victories in Super Tuesday primaries thanks to the overwhelming support of African-American voters …
Al Weaver / Washington Examiner:
Carson camp: 'We clearly don't know' our path to nomination  —  Ben Carson is staying in the race for the Republican nomination even though his campaign admits that it's not clear at all that Carson has a viable path to victory, and they don't have a plan to win.  —  “Well, we clearly don't know.
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Facebook faces German antitrust privacy probe  —  Facebook's data harvesting practices are facing yet another probe in Europe.  This time the German federal competition authority (the Bundeskartellamt) is initiating proceedings — rather than it being a European Member State's national data protection watchdog.
Eric Levenson / Boston Globe:
Did Bill Clinton violate election rules by going into a polling location?  —  Hillary Clinton's campaign has been “reminded” not to solicit votes near polling sites after President Bill Clinton ventured into a polling location in Boston on Tuesday, the Secretary of the Commonwealth's office said.
Discussion: WAVY-TV, Mediaite, CBS Boston and WBUR
Devin Kelly / Anchorage Daily News:
Cruz wins Alaska Republican vote, with Trump a close second  —  Volunteer Dawn Linton-Warren cheerfully greeted voters at the Church of the Nazarene while handing out State of Alaska voter registration applications during the Presidential Preference Poll on Super Tuesday, March 1, 2016.  —  Bill Roth / ADN
Discussion: The Atlantic
Hunter Walker / Yahoo Politics:
Christian Post:
Donald Trump Is a Scam.  Evangelical Voters Should Back Away (CP Editorial)  —  Editors' Note: The Christian Post has not taken a position on a political candidate before today.  We are making an exception because Trump is exceptionally bad and claims to speak for and represent the interests of evangelicals.
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Neetzan Zimmerman / The Hill:
Clinton to voter: 'Why don't you go run for something?'  —  was involved in brief confrontation with a young woman during a campaign stop in Minnesota Tuesday afternoon as voters headed to the polls to cast their ballot in the state's primary.  —  The Democratic presidential front-runner …
Hadas Gold / Politico:
The media's Trump reckoning: ‘Everyone was wrong’  —  David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, told his readers last summer that Donald Trump was running for president to promote his own brand and that the “whole con might end well before the first snows in Sioux City and Manchester.”
Discussion: The Atlantic
 
 
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Benjamin Bell / ABC News:
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Daily Mail:
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Robert Imrie / WAOW-TV:
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Discussion: FOX6Now.com and Associated Press
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Los Angeles Times:
Why millennials are staying away from homeownership despite an improving economy
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Erik Kirschbaum / Los Angeles Times:
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