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February 2016[edit]

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5Donald Trump goes to a non-ultra-conservative Virginia university to speak in preparation for Super Tuesday. It goes about as well as you think.
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3Alabama Senator, Jeff Sessions, endorses Trump.
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16Democratic National Committee Vice Chair, Tulsi Gabbard, has resigned in order to endorse Bernie Sanders.
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13Who's got two thumbs and a bad habit of re-tweeting white supremacists?
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-8Hillary Clinton wins the South Carolina primary with over 70% of the vote, vastly outperforming the polling in that state.
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4Jean-Marie Le Pen endorses Trump.
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4Hashim Thaci is elected as Kosovo's new president. The opposition party had released tear gas in Kosovo's parliament in order to prevent a vote.
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1Giant windbag Chris Christie endorses giant windbag Donald Trump for president.
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9Hillary Clinton is not a friend of labor.
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4Many TV pundits fail to disclose their relationship with Hillary Clinton as they praise her.
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7Trump nabs the important David Duke endorsement
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11Sanders is leading Clinton in national polling.
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6Black Lives Matter protesters interrupt Hillary Clinton.
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9Why Bernie Sanders is the only Democrat who can defeat Donald Trump.
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11Bernie Sanders accuses Hillary of copying his message.
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7Trump is winning with the racist vote.
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9Now Hillary Clinton says she will release her big bank speeches after the Republicans do.
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6Trump wins Nevada in a landslide.
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6No, Trump, General John Pershing didn't execute Filipino Muslims with bullets soaked in pig's blood.
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9Donald Trump is now boycotting Apple's products because they won't create a backdoor in their phones for the FBI.
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15No, Sanders's supporters didn't yell 'English only' to activist Dolores Huerta.
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22Jeb! drops out of the clown car!
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10Trump wins the GOP primary in South Carolina
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4Another batch of Hillary's emails have been published. Mostly a non-story. Update:More of her emails are out and they detail her push for free trade agreements.
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-6Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic Nevada Caucuses.
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4Hillary Clinton has pledged unwavering support for Israel.
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8John Kasich and the Clintons helped pass welfare reform that increased extreme poverty.
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12The Donald threatens to sue Ted Cruz over his citizenship and run as a third party candidate.
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11The DNC has rolled back Obama's campaign finance reforms Update: Sanders has called for the ban to be reinstated and has asked Hillary Clinton to join him.
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11 Sanders and Clinton debate on PBS get into a disagreement about Henry Kissinger
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13Rabid fetus fetishist Carly Fiorina doesn't carry her campaign to full term.
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8After the New Hampshire primary, Bernie Sanders campaign had raised $64 million in a single day.
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11Even though Bernie Sanders overwhelmingly won in NH Hillary Clinton will leave with a tie in delegates because of Democratic superdelegates.
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4The Congressional Black Caucus's PAC has endorsed Hillary Clinton; it is full of lobbyists and did not consult the actual CBC before they made an endorsement. Meanwhile John Lewis has attacked Bernie Sanders by saying he never met him during his fight for civil rights.
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13Vermin Supreme has come fourth in the Democratic primary He even got more votes than Republican presidential candidate Jim Gilmore did in the GOP primary.
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20Bernie Sanders makes US history by becoming the first non-Christian to ever win a US primary... oh and Trump won too.
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5Bloomberg considering run for prez as independent.
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9How Hillary Clinton is the representative of the military industrial complex.
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13A recent poll shows that 54% of voters agree that "In the next decade, a political revolution might be necessary to redistribute money from the wealthiest Americans to the middle class."
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8Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton agree to have 4 more debates.
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7 The clown bus loses Rand Paul. UPDATE: Santorum's also out.
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10 Some big news in American politics today. Ted Cruz the Canadian earns a 3% victory over Orange Orangutan. Mrs. Obvious Hillary Clinton beats burning socialist Bernie Sanders by less than one point. Martin O'Malley and Mike Huckabee have both dropped out of the presidential race.