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March 2016[edit]

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17Sanders off the DC primary ballot after Dems bungle paperwork. As if they couldn't make themselves anymore suspicious in their handling of the Sanders campaign.
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8Trump says women ought to be punished for having an abortion if Congress or a state makes it illegal. He has slightly reneged by saying that only the abortion provider would be punished.
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8Tim Canova is right, Debbie Wasserman Schultz has taken campaign "donations" from banks and has recently opposed a bill that seeks to fight payday loans.
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15Hillary Clinton's campaign is now refusing to debate Sanders. Her complaint is his tone.
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6Being ever so merciful, Trump rules out the creation of internment camps for American Muslims.
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-10Bernie Sanders calls for increased surveillance and law enforcement action after Brussels attacks, saying "I think we know who ISIS is."
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5Sanders sharpens attacks on Clinton’s campaign.
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11Bernie Sanders routed Hillary Clinton in Alaska, Hawaii, and Washington State. But that doesn't mean he's electable, right guys?
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4Trump reveals his foreign policy in a NYT interview. Update: For those who have a hard time reading what he says NYT has a rundown of his foreign policy.
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5Vox has a handy calculator to show you how each presidential candidate's tax plan affects you.
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7Disinterest and apathy are crushing it in the US elections right now.
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10AIPAC 2016: Hillary Clinton decides to pander to the rightwing of Israel and denounced the BDS movement while Donald Trump received a standing ovation for his extremism. Bernie Sanders, on the other hand, chose to humanize the Palestinians and condemn violence from both sides of the conflict.
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7Another protester has been assaulted at a Trump rally.
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17Bernie Sanders wins with Democrats abroad with 69% of the vote.
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12Men and women disapprove of every POTUS candidate except Bernie Sanders.
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-4Scott Baio endorses Trump.
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4Sheriff Joe Arpaio will be policing Trump rallies in Arizona.
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9The Sanders campaign says it will target Clinton's superdelegates if he does not lead in pledged delegates.
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12Bernie Sanders dominates with younger voters.
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9Kasich, if president, would consider nominating Garland to the court.
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13Bernie Sanders has denounced Rahm Emanuel, mayor of Chicago, and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. He has also said that, as president, he would withdraw Merrick Garland's SCOTUS nomination even though he would vote for him as a senator.
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9Clinton's campaign hits 1 million individual donors while Sanders's campaign hits 2 million individual donors.
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6Bernie Sanders will not be attending the AIPAC meeting he was invited to. Though, according to him, it is because he is too busy and not because of ideological differences.
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6Gov. Rick Scott has endorsed Trump and has called on the party to unite behind him.
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11Ted Cruz has formed an insane foreign policy team made up of Islamophobes.
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8Paul Ryan says that a contested convention is now more likely.
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8Three of theMANY good reasonswhy The Donald should not be President.
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11Trump is certain we should expect riots if the Republican elite denies him the nomination.
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3Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez loses to Kim Foxx while Cleveland's prosecuter, Tim McGinty, loses to Mike O'Malley.
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-7Clinton wins Florida, Ohio, Illinois (closely), and North Carolina. Trump wins Florida (Rubio's home state), North Carolina, and Illinois. Missouri is apparently the land of virtual ties, as both the Democratic and Republican race are extremely close there. In more predictable news, Kasich wins Ohio (his home state and where he is sitting Governor) and Marco Rubio drops out. And then there were three.
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13Politico analyzes a week's worth of Trump speeches and finds "roughly one misstatement every five minutes".
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8Ben Carson, a pillar of integrity
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8 Germany voted on Sunday (in 3 out of 16 states) and went far right
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9Asher Edelman, the inspiration for Gordon GekkoWikipedia, just endorsed Bernie Sanders for president over his economic plan.
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4Trump may have strong support from Hasidic Jews.
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5Trump rally breaks out at Trump rally.
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6An Ohio judge says that 17 years are allowed to vote in the Ohio primary. Bernie Sanders was one of several people who sued the state.
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6Hillary Clinton has called the Reagans low key AIDS advocates who started a national conversation. Of course she quickly apologized for her statements. A full explanation on why she is wrong.
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10Marco Rubio urges his supporters to vote for Kasich in Ohio.
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6Meet Donald Trump's sister, a U.S. federal judge who Ted Cruz called a "radical pro-abortion extremist". Although she does still take after her brother in whining about "political correctness".
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12Ben Carson to endorse Trump, because one nutjob deserves another.
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6A Breitbart reporter was grabbed roughly by Trump's campaign manager at a press conference. The campaign's response? Deny it and call her a liar, even when other reporters saw it. Not surprising, but perhaps more interesting is other Breitbart staff following their lead. Sorry guys, sociopaths will still throw you under the bus as soon as it benefits them no matter how much you suck up to them.
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12What if they held a Rubio rally and nobody came?
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5Even other conservatives don't like Sean Hannity (who responds by name-calling and bragging about his Twitter followers. How long until he officially endorses Trump?).
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7Trump has threaten to declare war in order to force Mexico to pay for his border wall.
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3Another protester is assaulted at Trump rally. While Al Bamberger, the veteran seen during a previous assault on protesters, regrets his actions and explains he was caught up in mob mentality. Al states he's not racist, and doesn't belong to any racist organizations, even though he admits he was wearing a "Join White Nationalists" t-shirt and cap.
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833% of Sanders supporters will not vote for Clinton if she wins the nomination.
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5No major news network aired Clinton's speech after the Michigan primary.
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12No, Clinton, Sanders did support the auto industry bailout. Some of your fellow Senators voted against the Wall St. bailout too.
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21In what could be considered the biggest upset of the political season so far, Bernie Sanders wins Michigan, vastly outperforming polls there. Clinton still ends up with more delegates for the night, however, due to a huge win in Mississippi.
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3No but really, Trump is real popular with Latinos
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7The Human Rights Protection Party wins almost all of the Samoan Parliamentary seats and the first five women deputies in Samoa.
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16No matter who you support, we all won today when Michael Bloomberg announced he will not ego-crash the election.
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9Someone needs to remind Larry Flynt "be careful what you wish for".
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21 Bernie Sanders bests Hillary Clinton in the Maine caucuses.
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13Ben Carson suspends his campaign. And then there were four.
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19As if this election wasn't weird enough already, Jesse Ventura says he'll run for president if Sanders doesn't win the nomination
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8Trump gets to the heart of the issues.
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6Kasich, Cruz, and Rubio will support Trump if he is the nominee. (Autoplay video)
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10Many GOP voters favor Trump's proposal to ban Muslim entry to U.S.
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9 US Presidential candidates offer sharp differences in their positions regarding renewable energy. Update: Their tax and spending plans also differ significantly from one another. Note, however, that John Kasich has yet to release his.
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11Hillary Clinton wins TN, TX, AR, AL, VA, GA and American Samoa while Sanders has won MN, CO, OK, and VT; they tied in MA. Regardless, Bernie Sander says he will run until all 50 states have voted.
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-27The neoconfederate, Ron Paul, has called Bernie Sanders a "variant of Trump."