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NBC Politics: Missouri Sen. McCaskill backs Clinton for president in '16

She's not a presidential candidate yet but Hillary Clinton is already starting to pile up the endorsements.  Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill Tuesday added her support to a growing roster of Democratic activists pushing the former secretary of state to make another bid for t … Full story

Bashir: ‘IRS’ the GOP’s latest racial dog whistle

   Martin Bashir explains how three simple letters, “I-R-S,” have become the go-to dog whistle for Republicans – and presidential candidates - who no longer can talk birth certificates or “gangster governments.”

Cate Edwards on family: ‘Their pain is my pain’

   Cate Edwards, the eldest daughter of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, sat down with TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie to talk about her father’s infidelity, the loss of her mother, Elizabeth, and the future of her father’s career.

Leading Egyptian leftist party to boycott elections

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian leftist opposition party, the Popular Current, led by former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahy, said on Tuesday it will boycott parliamentary elections due to start in April as well as national dialogue talks proposed by President Mohamed Mursi. Full story

Paraguay presidential candidate and coup plotter dies

ASUNCION (Reuters) - Paraguayan presidential candidate Lino Oviedo, who helped the lead the 1989 coup that overthrew former dictator Alfredo Stroessner, died in a helicopter crash over the weekend. Full story

No Deal, Band-Aid or Stop-Gap?

   Howard Dean, former presidential candidate, explains what kind of deal he is hoping for out of Washington. "I think we need significant and serious defense cuts and I think we do have to have some cuts on the human service side - which I don't like," h...

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  Is the independent vote overrated?

NBC's Mark Murray explains how presidential candidates in several of the last elections won the coveted independent vote, but lost the general election anyway.

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