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Ashley Feinberg / Gawker:
Ted Cruz Desecrates Classic Movie Scene By Calling Hoop a “Basketball Ring”  —  While stumping in Indiana tonight, Ted Cruz attempted to recreate a classic scene from Hoosiers in the very same gym in which part of the movie (thought not this particular scene) was filmed.
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Winners and losers from the I-95 primaries … Voters in five states stretching from the mid-Atlantic to the Northeast went to the polls on Tuesday.  At the presidential level, Donald Trump crushed his two remaining competitors while Hillary Clinton looked well positioned to extend her delegate lead over Bernie Sanders.
Yamiche Alcindor / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders to Reassess Candidacy After Tuesday's Vote, but He'll Stay in Race  —  Join us for live updates on the five states voting on Tuesday.  —  Updated, 4:00 p.m. |  PHILADELPHIA — Senator Bernie Sanders and his campaign advisers plan to reassess where his candidacy stands …
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Exclusive: Half of Americans think presidential nominating system ‘rigged’ - poll  —  More than half of American voters believe that the system U.S. political parties use to pick their candidates for the White House is “rigged” and more than two-thirds want to see the process changed, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Clinton decisively wins Democratic primaries in 4 states  —  These 10 states will decide whether Trump is the GOP nominee … PHILADELPHIA — Hillary Clinton all but secured the Democratic nomination Tuesday after a long and bruising primary fight against rival Sen. Bernie Sanders …
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Trump Lays Claim to Nomination Backed by Smashing Victories  —  Blowout victories in five states put the anti-Trump movement in serious jeopardy, with one card left to play.  —  If Donald Trump didn't kill the “stop Trump” movement on Tuesday night, he left it battered and bruised.
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Why Donald Trump Is Probably Two States From Victory
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Primary Takeaways: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Edge Closer to Nominations
Discussion: RedState, The Week and Raw Story
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
It's Trump's Nomination To Lose*
John Podhoretz / New York Post:   Ted Cruz is crumbling before our very eyes
Annie Karni / Politico:
Clinton's refusal to quit in 2008 haunts her in 2016
Discussion: Political Wire
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Voters in Eastern Seaboard primaries embrace Trump
Discussion: Politico and Balloon Juice
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Kasich ‘moving ahead’ after brutal losses
Discussion: Washington Post
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg View:
Trump Can't Beat Clinton. Who Says?
Discussion: Washington Post and Vox
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Indiana looms large for Cruz's slender hopes after Trump sweeps Northeast
Saul Hubbard / Register-Guard:
Kasich campaign fails to get him included in Oregon's voters' pamphlet
Discussion: CBS New York and Politico
David Barnett / Guardian:
Hugo awards shortlist dominated by rightwing campaign  —  For the second year running, the biggest prize in science-fiction and fantasy writing has been monopolised by nominations from Sad and Rabid Puppies groups, who campaign against works “overtly to the left”
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Allum Bokhari / Breitbart:
Sci-Fi's Hugo Awards Swept by Anti-SJW Authors — Again!
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Caleb Howe / RedState:
First Exit Poll Info From Super Duper Tuesday Is In, And On The Delegate Process ... Uh Oh, GOP  —  Bad news in the exits.  Remember there are a lot* delegates up for grabs today.  And on that topic ...  DELEGATES:  —  CNN reports that 68% of voters in Connecticut say that if nobody gets 1,237 …
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NBC News:
Live Blog: Exit Poll Analysis From Tuesday's Primaries
Discussion: Politicus USA
Wall Street Journal:
Comcast in Talks to Buy DreamWorks Animation for More Than $3 Billion  —  Deal would join DreamWorks Animation with Comcast's Universal Pictures  —  Comcast Corp. is in talks to buy DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. for more than $3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter …
Fox News:
NY judge decides Trump University case going to trial  —  A New York judge decided Tuesday that a fraud case against Donald Trump over his former school for real estate investors will go to trial - raising the possibility that the Republican presidential primary front-runner could testify during campaign season.
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Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Donald Trump Will Be Called to Testify in Trial About His ‘University’
Discussion: The Week and Associated Press
Baltimore Sun:
Four Baltimore polling sites stay open an hour late … Voting was extended by one hour at four polling locations in Baltimore Tuesday evening after the U.S. Senate campaign of Rep. Donna Edwards sought a court order to keep open sites where voting had been delayed.
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Judge extends voting hours at 4 Baltimore sites after complaint from Rep. Donna Edwards
Discussion: The Week and Vox
Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Trump: Sanders should run as an independent  —  should run for president as an independent.  —  “Bernie Sanders has been treated terribly by the Democrats—both with delegates & otherwise,” Trump tweeted Tuesday.  “He should show them, and run as an Independent!”
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
In state after state, strong GOP support for Trump's Muslim proposal  —  What was once furious Republican opposition to Donald Trump's proposal to temporarily ban foreign Muslims from entering the U.S. has turned to virtual silence in the face of widespread GOP voter approval.
D. Brian Burghart / Gawker:
What I Learned About the Washington Post From Four Years Collecting Data on Police Violence  —  Earlier this month, the Washington Post was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for its project on police violence, “Fatal Force.”  The Pulitzer Prize Board singled out the paper …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Matt Ford / The Atlantic:
The Racist Roots of Virginia's Felon Disenfranchisement  —  Last Friday, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe restored voting rights to more than 200,000 people with previous felony convictions.  It's a momentous stroke in both scope and effect; with an eye towards the 2016 races …
Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Trump's sweep is another humiliating defeat for media and political elites  —  Donald Trump's sweeping victories Tuesday night move the Manhattan billionaire a step closer to winning the Republican nomination for president and to pulling off the most improbable political feat in modern American history.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
 
 
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Trump starts spending to end Cruz in Indiana
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