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Bernie's top strategist: 'Maybe they're going to put him on the ticket' — Ask people in Hillary Clinton's world if they have a secret weapon to help win over voters under the age of old, and many will offer this answer: Bernie Sanders. — All you had to do was watch Sunday night's debate …
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Talking Points Memo and CBS News
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Last Slide — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders discussed their stances on the auto industry bailout during Flint's Democratic presidential debate. Here's the nub of the fight over Clinton's support and Sanders' opposition to the auto bailout. — The $82 billion that helped finance …
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Washington Post, New York Magazine, Detroit News and Associated Press

Sanders wins Maine decisively
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Washington Post, NBC News and Detroit Free Press

Fracas in Flint: Clinton, Sanders spar over trade, auto bailout
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Yahoo Politics, Washington Post, MSNBC and New York Times


Democrats Clinton and Sanders pounce on Flint water crisis — and each other
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The Huffington Post, BloombergView.com, New York Times, Taylor Marsh, Politico and The Moderate Voice

Hillary Clinton calls for Snyder to resign over Flint lead crisis
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Politico

Hillary Clinton Calls For Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder To Resign Or Be Recalled
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New York Magazine, Slantpoint and ThinkProgressPage Array


Some supporters of Rubio say bad strategy, poorly run campaign killing his chances … Sensing an opportunity for an upset victory, Marco Rubio spent most of Friday in Kansas, where he picked up a series of high-profile endorsements that he hoped could help thrust him into contention.
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Politico, FiveThirtyEight, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Eschaton
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Money Pours In as Move to Stop Donald Trump Expands — Republicans hoping to halt Donald J. Trump's march to their party's presidential nomination emerged from the weekend's voting contests newly emboldened by Mr. Trump's uneven electoral performance and by some nascent signs that he may be peaking with voters.
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Politico, Washington Post, New York Magazine and NBC News


Showing strength in Michigan, Trump feeds on hostility to GOP, Romney — WARREN, Mich. — Donald Trump holds a solid lead in two new polls of Michigan Republicans on the eve of a primary that has often played a key role in GOP presidential races. In one survey, by CBS News, Trump is at 39 percent …


Republicans have destroyed their party; will they take America with them?
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The Moderate Voice

Mitt Romney won't rule out accepting GOP nomination at contested convention
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The Gateway Pundit

Marco Rubio Coasts to Victory in Puerto Rico's Republican Primary
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Politico and Florida Politics

Rubio wins Puerto Rico primary
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Outside the Beltway, Washington Monthly and The Week

How Donald Trump scrambles the general election map — If Donald Trump's coalition carries him to the GOP nomination, it could produce a crazy-quilt general election that scrambles the conventional wisdom about the battleground state map. — The Electoral College landscape has been fairly stable …
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Decades Later, ‘Spy’ Magazine Founders Continue To Torment Trump — Listen to the Story — Soon after its launch in 1986, the satirical magazine Spy picked Donald Trump as the brash embodiment of a crass age. Founded by Graydon Carter and Kurt Andersen, the magazine chronicled …
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Politico, more at Mediagazer »

After last night, is there any way realistically that Trump doesn't win Florida? — Seeing a lot of buzz this morning that Trump underperformed last night and therefore it's a whole new ballgame in Florida and Ohio. It may indeed be a whole new ballgame — but not the way you think.
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Washington Post, RedState and National Review
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Marco Rubio wins Puerto Rico primary, CNN projects
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Vox, Towleroad and The Last Tradition

When Fallacies Collide — The formal debates among the Republicans who would be president have exceeded all expectations. Even the most hardened cynics couldn't have imagined that the candidates would sink so low, and stay so focused on personal insults. Yet last week, offstage …
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Politicus USA


Trump Tower Funded by Rich Chinese Who Invest Cash for Visas — New Jersey building partly funded via controversial visa plan — Video to sell it to investors is subtitled in Chinese — Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has attacked China and warned about the dangers of deficient immigrant screening.
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Talking Points Memo and RedState


Trent Lott would consider Obama's Supreme Court nomination — The Axe Files, featuring David Axelrod, is a podcast distributed by CNN and produced at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. The author works at the institute. — (CNN)Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott …
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Talking Points Memo and Political Wire


Which Media Outlet's Republican Delegate Tracker Do You Believe? — Major media outlets cannot agree on any of the delegate counts for the top three GOP candidates, nor the allotment from 11 states that have voted thus far — With 20 Republican contests in the books …
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NBC News, CBS New York and Independent Journal Review


Padma Lakshmi lifts the lid on her marriage to Salman Rushdie — Salman Rushdie has been described as needy, jealous and uncaring in an unflattering new book from his ex wife — Sir Salman Rushdie needed consoling every year he did not win the Nobel Prize for literature …


Heavy turnout, long delays reported at Maine's Democratic caucuses — Thousands wait in line for hours in Portland, and Senate Minority Leader Justin Alfond says he will submit a bill to establish presidential primaries in the state. — Thousands of people waited hours in line Sunday …
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Guardian, Talking Points Memo and Common Dreams
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A Glimpse of a Different Campaign
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ABC News, New York Magazine, RedState, Associated Press, Hot Air and Marco Rubio