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• The lesson is that voters in both parties are in a very anti-establishment, populist mood. Hillary Clinton is the establishment candidate.

  Mara Liasson

  Party, Lessons, Voters

  "As Iowa Race Nears, Anti-Establishment Leaders Hold Strong". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 24, 2016.

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• The GOP establishment, in particular, is facing a pick-your-poison kind of decision. Many establishment Republicans dislike [Ted] Cruz personally. He has no Senate endorsements.

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  Decision, Poison, Kind

  "As Iowa Race Nears, Anti-Establishment Leaders Hold Strong". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 24, 2016.

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• Ted Cruz is a small-government conservative.

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  Government, Conservative, Cruz

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• The [Hillary] Clinton campaign's recent travel schedule shows how seriously it takes this problem. She and her surrogates have held rallies in cities like Philadelphia, Detroit and Cleveland, trying to boost turnout among African-Americans.

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  Cities, Philadelphia, African American

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The Democrats pulled out one of their most powerful surrogates - and no, it wasn't President [Barack] Obama. Beyoncé showed up at a GOTV rally in Cleveland, joining her husband, Jay Z, and Hillary Clinton.

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  Powerful, Husband, President

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• There was another Cleveland rally [of Hillary Clinton] - this one with LeBron James.

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  Cleveland, Clinton

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• If [Hillary] Clinton can't boost African-American turnout, even with all that help, the question becomes whether she can make up for it with historic levels of support from Hispanics and suburban women.

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  Support, African American, Levels

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In 2012, Hispanics were 10 percent of the electorate, underperforming their share of the voting-age population. Mitt Romney got 21 percent of their vote, and [Donald] Trump has been polling much lower than that.

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  Voting Age, Population, Vote

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.

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  Government, Outsiders, Conservative

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• If she Hillary Clinton win just two of the three big battleground states - North Carolina, Florida and Virginia - she will have shut off Trump's path to 270 electoral votes, even if he wins the other toss-up states.

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  Winning, Florida, Virginia

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• In 2012, African-Americans were 13 percent of the electorate, and 93 percent of them voted for [Barack] Obama.

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  African American, Barack, Electorate

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• African-American voters are not nearly as enthusiastic about [Hillary] Clinton as they were about [Barack] Obama.

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  African American, Voters, Clinton

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• There's a lot of anxiety about terrorism among the country at large. There's also a feeling the country has stagnated.

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  Country, Anxiety, Feelings

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• There was tremendous animus to President [Barack] Obama. Many of people said he was un-American, not a Christian and worse.

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  Christian, People, President

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• The country wants the president and the Congress focused on jobs and the economy. Any regulation that the president promulgates that isn't focused on, I think, is a risk for him, and the same is true for Congress.

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  Country, Jobs, Thinking

  "Darrell Issa, Fred Upton Talk Oversight; Allen West, Mike Lee on Tea Party Conservatives". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. January 02, 2011.

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• A big win for [Hillary] Clinton would allow her to claim that the country rejected Trumpism, while a narrow win leaves her limping into office with the highest unfavorable ratings for any new president.

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  Country, Winning, Office

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If [Donald] Trump wins narrowly, Democrats can blame the loss on FBI director James Comey, who inserted himself late in the campaign in an unprecedented way.

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  Loss, Winning, Directors

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• If [Donald] Trump loses narrowly, it will make it much harder for the GOP to unify. Under that scenario, the Trumpists are likely to argue that the election was lost because the Republican establishment failed to rally around the choice their own voters made.

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  Choices, Voters, Arguing

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• [Donald] Trump has said he will accept the results of the election - if he wins. And he has said the only way he can lose the election is if it's stolen from him. Weeks before any votes were cast, he was predicting widespread voter fraud. So if he loses, what does he do?

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  Winning, Doe, Voter Fraud

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Does Donald Trump accept the results and concede graciously, pursue legal action, or tell his followers to take to the streets?

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  Doe, Followers, Action

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• What if he says [Donald Trump] plans to run again in 2020?

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  Running, What If, Trump

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• What does [Hillary] Clinton do if she loses? Concede? Blame the Russians? Or the FBI?

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  Doe, Blame, Clinton

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• The aftermath of this extraordinary election [2016] could be just as surprising as the race itself.

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  Race, Aftermath, Election

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• [Donald] Trump's path to victory depends on getting historic levels of support from white voters, and particularly large numbers of white, non-college-educated voters.

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  College, White, Numbers

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• Mitt Romney got 59 percent of the white vote in 2012, considered by many to be a high-water mark with this demographic group. Can [Donald] Trump win a higher share of white voters than Romney and get more of them to turn out?

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  Winning, White, Water

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