Luke Skywalker
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Happy Saturday, For the Record friends. What a week it has been, and we're not just talking about the latest installment of 'War and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Peace.' We never read Tolstoy's tome, so we have no idea what's going to happen next. Sounds like<span style="color: Red;">*</span>election season. It always seems to come back to that, doesn't it?
Before we ponder further<span style="color: Red;">*</span>who Natasha's true love really is<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>what the natural color of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>actor James Norton's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>hair could be, let's recap what happened in the political world this week.
[h=2]Caucus war[/h]Choose Cruz. TrusTED. But what's catchy slogan for "Rafael"?<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Brian Powers, USA TODAY Sports)
The Iowa caucuses<span style="color: Red;">*</span>came and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>they conquered. We're still in a tizzy over Monday's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>results. On the GOP side, Ted Cruz<span style="color: Red;">*</span>proved the polls wrong<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and trumped<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Donald Trump in Iowa. The Donald was gracious in defeat<span style="color: Red;">*</span>for all of 10 seconds, and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>then he did exactly what you would expect<span style="color: Red;">*</span>him to do. A real tweet: "Ted Cruz didn't win Iowa, he stole it." Teddy coined it<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a #Trumpertantrum. Other considerations: Trumpeted,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Trumptastic, Trumpdown, Trumpandemonium, Trump Diggity. Meanwhile,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Marco Rubio took his third-place finish<span style="color: Red;">*</span>as well as Miss Colombia took her Miss Universe finish, before she found out she didn't win after all.
Democrat Land was more of a nail biter for everyone except Martin O'Malley (but we'll get to that in a bit). By Tuesday,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Hillary Clinton claimed Iowa victory over<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Bernie Sanders<span style="color: Red;">*</span>using the questionable means of coin flips and errors. And by Friday, Iowa officials said<span style="color: Red;">*</span>they were going to look at the reported discrepancies, something that would affect<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the delegate count. Still, Clinton's campaign holds that even if the contested results end up<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in Sanders' favor, she'll still have a slim lead. Related: What does 1.7947 of a delegate look like? Sounds uncomfortable.
[h=2]Peace be with you[/h]We'll always have Scrappy, Martin.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Steve Pope, Getty Images)
For the four<span style="color: Red;">*</span>candidates who fought the good fight for as long they could (which, in this case, was the reality check delivered by the Iowa caucuses).<span style="color: Red;">*</span>May they now enjoy future debates from their couches, playing drinking games and debate bingo like the rest of America.
We also tip our hats to Jim Gilmore<span style="color: Red;">*</span>for noting that he's #StillStanding. Indeed you<span style="color: Red;">*</span>are, sir. Indeed you are.
[h=2]Debate war[/h]We only hope that this iteration of Mortal Kombat has a catchy theme song.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images)
With O'Malley out of the picture,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>we've entered the Mortal Kombat phase of the Democratic primary cycle. On Thursday night,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Sanders and Clinton got their first taste of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>head-to-head debates to come (because, if you missed that news, there ARE more to come). It's the battle of idealism vs. pragmatism, with a hint of foreign policy experience and a dose of Wall Street ties. Prepare yourselves: It's gonna be a bumpy ride.
[h=2]No prime-time politics peace just yet[/h]There's a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>#GOPDebate<span style="color: Red;">*</span>tonight! And there's no undercard to go with it! (Sorry, Carly.) If debates on a weekend night<span style="color: Red;">*</span>aren't your thing, rumor has it that a certain Democratic senator who's running for president<span style="color: Red;">*</span>might make an appearance on Saturday Night Live opposite Larry David, presumably to discuss how many pairs of underwear he owns.
[h=2]Our parting gift to you[/h]Trump Donald. You know you want to.
See you Monday morning in your inboxes,
Jessica,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Brett<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Joanna
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