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All Hail Trump: NH Primary Shatters GOP Establishment
The New Hampshire primary results Tuesday both complicated and simplified the Republican race. Donald Trump won with a resounding 35 percent, winning his first state, followed by Ohio Gov. John Kasich at a surprising 16 percent. Rounding out the rest of the ballot was an essential three-way tie for the third-best loser, with Texas Sen. Ted…
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Top 4 Political Reasons to Root for, or Against, a Team in the Super Bowl
Super Bowl Sunday can bring up a whole slew of emotions for people across the sports and nonsports spectrum. Decades of marketing have turned it into a de facto American holiday that everyone is supposed to care about. So even if you don’t care about football, you feel pressured to attend, like when you go…
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Since When Does 3rd Equal 1st? Deconstructing Marco Rubio’s Iowa ‘Win’
If you listen very, very quietly, you can almost hear it buzzing just below the surface of the post-Iowa caucus coverage. It’s not quite the howling of a newborn calf or the chirping of a baby bird cracking out of its eggshell, but the sound of a new political narrative being born has a distinct…
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Live Update From Iowa: They’re All Running Against the Same Guy
Editor’s note: All day Monday The Root will be publishing short dispatches from our politics editor, Jason Johnson, in Iowa, where he is following the action ahead of tonight’s caucus. Follow this story for updates. You can also follow his caucus reporting on Twitter. Des Moines, Iowa, Sun., Jan. 31: Different Faces, Different Views, Same Opponent…
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The 3 Big Takeaways From the Trumpless, Final Debate Before Iowa
Even when you know a show is about an ensemble cast, there are still those who stand out. And when they’re not there, the entire show suffers. When Simon left American Idol; when Nene Leakes left Real Housewives of Atlanta; even way back when Toni left Girlfriends, you just knew the show wouldn’t be the…
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Donald Trump: Politician or Comic Book Supervillain?
There are a lot of ways you could describe Donald Trump: Business man. Reality-television star. Republican front-runner. Vehement racist. Comic book supervillain? Yes, the Donald may not don the garish costumes and makeup of the Joker (although one could debate about his hairpiece), but much of what he says does sound as if it could…
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Feeling Anxious About the 2016 Election? You Should Be … It’ll Make You Smarter
News outlets across America are talking about how anxious the American voter is heading into the 2016 election. We’re anxious about the economy, anxious about national security, anxious about criminal justice; the whole country just seems like a bundle of nerves looking over its collective shoulders at every new drip of news. Generally, this anxiety…
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Poisoned Water in Flint, Failing Schools in Detroit: How 1 Law Is Hurting Mich.
Republican Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is in hot and highly contaminated water. Residents in Flint, Mich., have been drinking, bathing in and cooking with contaminated water for over a year, and all signs indicate that Snyder has known about it since Spring of 2015. To make matters worse, on Wednesday morning, teachers in the Detroit…
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Top 3 Takeaways From the 4th Democratic Debate
The fourth debate between the candidates for the Democratic nomination for president in Charleston, S.C., Sunday night was an exciting affair if you had never seen or heard of, or had no familiarity with, the candidates. But if you are like most Americans who have any interest in politics, there was not much last night…
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Nikki Haley Makes the Case for Old-School Racism
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley wants to take things back to the “old school.” The establishment’s choice to represent a “sensible” side of Republicanism, Haley’s response to the State of the Union address seemed to target GOP front-runner Donald Trump more than President Barack Obama. “Today we live in a time of threats like few…
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