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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.
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National poll: Clinton, Sanders both top Trump — Washington (CNN)Both of the remaining Democratic candidates for president easily top Republican front-runner Donald Trump in hypothetical general election match-ups, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll. — But Hillary Clinton …


Bad news for The Donald on Super Tuesday as court rules N.Y. attorney general's Trump University fraud lawsuit can proceed — Super Tuesday has gotten off to a not-so-super start for Donald Trump — a New York appeals court has denied his bid to to toss out a lawsuit that charges his Trump University was a fraud.
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Here's Why This Educated, Liberal Couple Is Considering Voting For Donald Trump — “Yes, we could be like the good citizens who voted for a “tameable” Hitler in 1933 to get things back on track. But the alternatives look worse,” the couple wrote in a letter to the Financial Times. — The letter reads:
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Ryan denounces Trump over KKK dust-up: ‘There can be no evasion’
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Students removed from Trump rally in Georgia
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The Daily 202: Why Donald Trump's support keeps expanding
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Open Letter from Marco: Donald Trump Is No Joke — He's Dangerous
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Trump swaggers through Super Tuesday rally — took an early victory lap during a Super Tuesday rally in Columbus, Ohio, boasting about his popularity and dismissing GOP presidential primary rivals Marco Rubio — “I'm like 20 points up in Florida over a senator who never shows up,” …
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Rubio, Cruz locked in critical Super Tuesday battle for runner-up — Rarely have the stakes been so high in a race for second place. — Barring a seismic shift in voter sentiment, Donald Trump is expected to dominate the Republican primary field on Super Tuesday, adding …
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‘Donald Drumpf’ Is Beating Rubio and Cruz for Second in Web Searches
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Mapping Out ‘Trump Country’ on Super Tuesday
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How Bernie Sanders Spent the Week Before Super Tuesday
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Adviser: Carson staying in even if he gets shut out on Super Tuesday — Ben Carson will not drop out of the GOP presidential race, even if he doesn't take home any delegates on Super Tuesday, close friend and adviser Armstrong Williams told The Hill. — Carson has been under pressure …
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Carson Calls Meeting Of GOP Candidates After Race Takes ‘Turn For The Worse’ — Dr. Ben Carson announced Tuesday that he was personally calling his rivals to ask them to meet ahead of Thursday's Republican presidential debate, saying the tone of the race had taken a “turn for the worse.”
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Carson camp: 'We clearly don't know' our path to nomination
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Carson's campaign: 'We clearly don't know' our path to nomination
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Clinton Confronted By Voter Who Thinks Her Record Shows She Doesn't Care About African Americans — Hillary Clinton had a tense confrontation with a young Somali-American woman in Minnesota Tuesday over her checkered past on racial issues. — The woman greeted Clinton and then brought up the …
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Clinton to voter: 'Why don't you go run for something?'
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Steve Harvey endorses Hillary Clinton
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Republicans rebuff Obama in meeting on SCOTUS nomination — There were no signs of a breakthrough as President Obama met Tuesday with Senate Republican leaders pledging to block anyone he nominates to the Supreme Court. — Senate Majority Leader (R-Ky.) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley
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Coequal Branches of Government
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McConnell And Grassley Don't Budge In Meeting With Obama On SCOTUS
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How Donald Trump Made Republicans Half-Aware of Racism — How could this happen to the movement founded by segregationist William F. Buckley? — Donald Trump represents a threat to conservatism in two ways. He is extremely likely to lose if nominated, and even if elected …
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Staring at the Conservative Gutter
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Deputy's dash cam captures video of drunk passenger falling head first into creek — LINCOLN COUNTY, Tenn. - The next time you're having a bad day, think about the two guys a Lincoln County Deputy encountered while on patrol. — The driver stops the truck in the middle of a road.
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Bin Laden's Bookshelf — In the weeks following the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan by United States forces, U.S. Intelligence Community analysts sifted through the recovered digital and hard copy materials in search of clues that would reveal ongoing al-Qa'ida plots …
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DNC Chair Joins GOP Attack On Elizabeth Warren's Agency — Payday lenders get a new ally. — Senior Political Economy Reporter, The Huffington Post — WASHINGTON — Payday lenders have been gunning for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since the day President Barack Obama tapped Elizabeth Warren to set up the new agency.
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Texas Candidate Zena Stephens' Office Shot in Apparent Racial Attack — Five people were taken into custody and questioned late Monday in connection with the apparent racially motivated shooting at a Texas campaign office, police said. — Zena Stephens, who is African American …
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Scientists discover 8000-year-old tiny hand prints in ancient cave were NOT made by humans — Experts probing the discovery of 13 hand prints in the eerie Egyptian Cave of Beasts say the 8000-year-old stencils did not belong to humans — Anthropologists probing the discovery …


Can Google's Driverless Car Project Survive a Fatal Accident? — Everybody knew this day would come. — After several years and more than 1.4 million miles of test driving, Google's perfect streak came to an end. In all that time, the tech giant's self-driving cars had been in fewer …
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I don't watch the Oscars to get harangued about racism, rape, sex abuse, greedy bankers, global warming and gay rights. I watch to be entertained. If you want to preach at us, darlings, get into politics — I'm exhausted; physically, mentally, emotionally and psychologically drained.
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