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9:30 AM ET, February 1, 2016

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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP braces for a post-Iowa collision  —  DES MOINES, IOWA - The bruised and battered Republican Party establishment is bracing for a collision - with the candidates running under its banner.  —  With the GOP political class growing increasingly worried that insurgents Donald Trump and Ted Cruz …
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Associated Press:
Bush Doing Whatever It Takes to Stay Relevant  —  Jeb Bush's supporters have spent $15 million on slickly produced ads to win over Iowa voters.  Barely registering in the polls and increasingly desperate in the shadow of the Iowa caucuses, he's now trying a cost-free, personal tactic: hugs.
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
GOP candidates start limping in the money race  —  Jeb Bush's fundraising juggernaut has run out of steam, Ben Carson's money machine has cranked down, and Chris Christie and Rand Paul have just a little more than $1 million in each of their campaign bank accounts.
Discussion: The Week and Political Wire
CNN:
Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio are money race winners  —  (CNN)For all the complaints from Democrats about the amount of big money in politics, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have raised a staggering amount of cash.  —  Clinton's campaign raised $112 million in 2015 …
New York Times:
Rival Factions of Top Donors Get Behind Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
George Soros donates $8 million to boost Hillary
Discussion: Business Insider and Slantpoint
Associated Press:
Among GOP Rivals to Trump and Cruz, Rubio Has Most Cash
Discussion: Political Wire and ABC News
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
How Clinton is plotting to go after Trump  —  DES MOINES, Iiowa — It's tunnel-vision time for Hillary Clinton as she battles Bernie Sanders here — but she's casting some serious side-eye in Donald Trump's direction.  —  After months of laughing off Trump — and assuming his ascent …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Hillary Clinton May Win Iowa After All  —  It would be entirely reasonable to presume that Bernie Sanders has momentum in Iowa.  He's gained on Hillary Clinton in national polls.  He keeps pulling further ahead of Clinton in New Hampshire.  And he's made substantial gains in Iowa relative to his position late last year.
Discussion: TalkLeft and The Mahablog
John Wagner / Washington Post:
A more agitated Sanders tries to fend off attacks of nervous establishment
Marisa Schultz / New York Post:
Trump winning over Latino Republicans, poll says
Associated Press:
In Final Iowa Blitz, an Outraged Clinton Channels Sanders
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Iowa poll reveals a line of attack that could sink Trump  —  DES MOINES — The final poll ahead of Monday's caucuses showed Donald Trump rallying to a five-point lead over Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, with two days to go before voting, but it also revealed a line of attack that could sink Trump.
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Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
Donald Trump Admits Being a ‘Little Bit Nervous’ About Today's Iowa Caucuses
Discussion: Associated Press and The Week
Associated Press:
Trump, wife attend services the last Sunday before caucuses
Discussion: RedState and The Daily Caller
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Cruz Fighting For His Life in Iowa
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Wind, Sun and Fire  —  So what's really at stake in this year's election?  Well, among other things, the fate of the planet.  —  Last year was the hottest on record, by a wide margin, which should — but won't — put an end to climate deniers' claims that global warming has stopped.
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Joe Romm / ThinkProgress:
Why The Renewables Revolution Is Now Unstoppable  —  Once upon a time, people imagined that replacing fossil fuels with renewables like solar and wind would jeopardize the electric grid's reliability.  Then along came some major countries who showed that it didn't, and that there really are no limits to renewable integration.
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Ted Cruz's Iowa Mailers Are More Fraudulent Than Everyone Thinks  —  Ted Cruz's Presidential campaign prides itself on being data-centric and on integrating insights from political science into its tactics.  In 2008, academics at Yale published an influential paper showing …
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Iowa secretary of State scolds Cruz over controversial mailers
Discussion: NBC News
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
How Trump Did It  —  What they heard as they ate deli sandwiches around Donald Trump's hulking, wooden conference table sounded like the businessman's typical bravado.  These 25 New York political operatives had come to ask him to run for governor.  But Trump had another plan—a very specific plan—to run for president.
Joel Kotkin / Orange County Register:
Serfs up with California's new feudalism  —  Is California the most conservative state?  —  Now that I have your attention, just how would California qualify as a beacon of conservatism?  It depends how you define the term.  —  Since the rise of Ronald Reagan, most conservatives …
Dan Bilefsky / New York Times:
Benoît Violier, Top French-Swiss Chef, Dies at 44  —  LONDON — The French-Swiss chef Benoît Violier, who scaled the heights of gastronomy to preside over a small Swiss restaurant that was named the best in the world in December, has died in what seems to have been suicide, according to the police.
Discussion: The Week
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Fox host shreds Ted Cruz over Obamacare falsehoods: ‘More people have jobs and health insurance’  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Fox News host Chris Wallace cornered Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Sunday about his claim that President Barack Obama's health care reform law had cost jobs.
Discussion: ACASignups.net and Hullabaloo
Mary Beth Rogers / Salon:
Turning Texas blue?:  3 trends could undo the 20 years of Republican rule Texas has endured since the days of Ann Richards  —  It will take some doing, but if Democrats can capitalize on the GOP's weaknesses, there might be hope for Texas  —  Today Texas is the reddest of the red-hot states …
 
 
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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Tenured Thugs and Thieves
Discussion: Shot in the Dark
Joe Weisenthal / Bloomberg Business:
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Discussion: FiveThirtyEight
John B. Judis / Vox:
This election could be the birth of a Trump-Sanders constituency
Associated Press:
Trump Loaned $10 Million to His Campaign Toward End of 2015
Discussion: Politico, Raw Story and ABC News
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Ben Knight / Guardian:
Teenage girl ‘made up’ migrant rape claim that outraged Germany
Discussion: Mashable and Dean's World
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Ban Ki-Moon / New York Times:
Don't Shoot the Messenger, Israel
Jay Caruso / RedState:
On Eve Of The Caucus, Read How Donald Trump Ripped Off An Iowan Using Trump University
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Microsoft on the hot seat in Iowa
Discussion: Breitbart and Hot Air
Thomas Fitzgerald / Philly.com:
Iowa town embodies immigrant divide
Quentin Fottrell / MarketWatch:
This is the atheist capital of America
Michael Kruse / Politico:
Donald Trump's Art of the Fail
Olaf Ekberg / The American Mirror:
OMG: NAACP leader uses F-word to apologize for using T-word after N-word meeting
Discussion: RedState