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1:55 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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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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Insiders: Bernie scored in debate with Wall Street slams
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 …
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Think the Iowa polls were bad?  Wait until New Hampshire  —  Pollsters in Iowa are searching for answers after they failed to predict Ted Cruz's victory over Donald Trump and Marco Rubio.  It might even be worse next week in New Hampshire.  —  Pollsters and other observers surveyed …
Erick Erickson / Townhall.com:
Cruz vs. Rubio  —  I have, since last September, written several times that I think the 2016 campaign comes down to a race between Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.  The loss in Iowa after leading in the ten polls preceding the caucuses has taken the wind out of Donald Trump's sails.
ABC News:
Lineup for Last GOP Debate Before NH Primary Announced
Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Holds Substantial Lead in New Hampshire, According to Poll
Discussion: Slantpoint
Ari Melber / MSNBC:
Clinton spending more on polling than six GOP candidates combined
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Now starring in a Christie ad: Rick Santorum
Allison Yang / New York's PIX11:
NYC crane collapse: 1 killed, 3 injured after massive crane crashes onto cars; it was ‘like an earthquake’  —  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. …
Discussion: Fox 59, WTVR-TV and Q13 FOX News
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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: Joe.My.God., USA Today and The Atlantic
New York Times:
Crane Collapse in Lower Manhattan Kills One Person
Discussion: Politico and Death and Taxes
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
Kate Hairopoulos / Dallas Morning News:
Johnny Manziel's father: If son doesn't get help, QB 'won't live to see his 24th birthday'  —  Johnny Manziel's family is concerned for his well-being, but the NFL quarterback has twice declined to be admitted to area rehabilitation facilities in the last week, according to his father, Paul Manziel.
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Barbara Bush: Jeb is ‘almost too polite’  —  Former first lady Barbara Bush has some advice for Jeb Bush ahead of Saturday's Republican debate: Man up.  —  “He's almost too polite.  I don't advise him, but if I gave him advice I would say, 'Why don't you interrupt like other people do?'”
Discussion: Mediaite and The Week
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Jeb jokes his mom was lucky there was no ‘child-abuse hotline’
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Sarah Kaplan / Washington Post:
Wife crashes her own funeral, horrifying her husband, who had paid to have her killed  —  Noela Rukundo sat in a car outside her home, watching as the last few mourners filed out.  They were leaving a funeral — her funeral.  —  Finally, she spotted the man she'd been waiting for.
CNN:
Cruz campaign voicemail said Carson was ‘suspending campaigning’  —  Washington (CNN)Ted Cruz's campaign staff called Iowa precinct captains Monday night to tell them that Ben Carson was “suspending campaigning” and that they should alert caucus attendees in an effort to sway voters.
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Oliver Darcy / TheBlaze.com:
'I'm Just Asking a Question': Rush Limbaugh Reveals What He's ‘Always Wondered’ About Obama  —  Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh asked aloud on his radio program Thursday why President Barack Obama made the choice to become a Christian.  —  Limbaugh, referencing the president's recent trip …
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.”
Katy Barnato / CNBC:
Citi: World economy trapped in ‘death spiral’  —  The global economy seems trapped in a “death spiral” that could lead to further weakness in oil prices, recession and a serious equity bear market, Citi strategists have warned.  —  Some analysts — including those at Citi …
 
 
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