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Poll: Cruz rising in Iowa

A new Quinnipiac poll on Iowa shows Donald Trump on top but Ted Cruz moving ahead of Ben Carson. Mike Huckabee, a winner in Iowa in 2008, barely scores among Iowa Republican voters this year.
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Huck aide boxes out Cruz at Kim Davis revival meeting

Funny. Mike Huckabee turned the jail release of Kentucky clerk Kim Davis into an old-fashioned revival meeting, with prayer, hymns, a little unauthorized use of pop music and some nifty footwork by Huckabee aides in keeping Sen. Ted Cruz out of the limelight.
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The Donald is still driving the GOP clown car.

Donald Trump still leading the GOP pack; Ben Carson surging

Donald Trump still remains the lead, but the real winner of the GOP debate may have been Ben Carson.
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Talking Points Memo flags cancelled Justin Harris appearance at Ted Cruz event

Talking Points Memo highlights Benji Hardy’s reporting on a “courage award” originally scheduled to be given to Rep. Justin Harris last night at a Ft. Smith event also featuring a speech by Sen. Ted Cruz. Harris remains politically toxic, and rumors have circulated that the Cruz camp had a hand in nixing the appearance.

Ted Cruz rallies Republicans in Little Rock

Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz spoke to a crowd at Republican headquarters in Little Rock this morning, one of three appearances he's making in the state today. The U.S. senator from Texas is vying to define himself as the standard-bearer of Tea Party-style conservatism, but is it enough to overcome his party's crush on Donald Trump?
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Family Council to present 'courage' award to Rep. Justin Harris

Harris will be given the group's first annual "Power of Courage" award at a Van Buren dinner. Harris is best known to the state for the "rehoming" of two young girls whom he and his wife adopted from Arkansas DHS in 2013 and subsequently gave to another family where one was later sexually abused.

Ted Cruz announces Arkansas leadership team

Ted Cruz's "Arkansas leadership team" says it all.
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Will Tom Cotton join Ted Cruz in trying to kill the private option in Arkansas?

Tom Cotton refuses to state his position on the private option or own up to the fact that he has voted to repeal it and that his stated policy goals would kill the policy. If Cotton wins and the GOP takes the Senate, he will be under pressure to join Sen. Ted Cruz's crusade to take any any means necessary to repeal the Affordable Care Act and end the private option in Arkansas. With the health insurance of 200,000 Arkansans at stake, he can dodge the issue no more.

UPDATE: Ted Olson with some advice for Ted Cruz (and Jason Rapert)

Ted Olson, the Republican lawyer who won the case to kill California's Prop. 8 against same-sex marriage, has some reaction to Ted Cruz's remarks about judicial activism in marriage cases. Please copy to Jason Rapert and friends,.
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Now comes the Affordable Care Act. Some DO find it more affordable

The last-ditch effort to kill the Affordable Care Act by defunding has failed. Now the system must begin to deliver (though it's hampered by rear-guard actions in legislatures across the country and by the refusal of mostly Southern states — except Arkansas — to avail themselves of the Medicaid expansion it offers for poorest citi

UPDATE: Republicans move to 'rewrite ransom note'

Good analysis by Ezra Klein in the changing shape of the Republican hostage negotiations. Obamacare?
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