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For the Record: Bernie Sanders dials it up to 10

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Good morning and welcome to the first edition of Paste BN's For the Record! Cramming the night before was a great strategy for your Western Lit 201 final, but it’s a terrible method for selecting the leader of the free world. That’s where we come in. We’ll be here to keep you up-to-date on the candidates, their positions, and of course their many hilarious gaffes. If you haven't subscribed yet, click here to sign up. It's free!

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Six Republican presidential candidates -- Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum -- spent yesterday at the North Texas Presidential Forum. The goal: to present their campaign resumes to religious conservatives on issues ranging from abortion and gay marriage to support for Israel and the fight against ISIS. Can wooing the religious right help bring home an early state victory for one of the six GOP attendees? Appealing to social conservatives may help candidates in two states early in the voting calendar (Iowa and South Carolina), but won't hold much influence in either New Hampshire, a notoriously secular state; or Nevada, a state founded by stagecoach robbers. Paste BN's David Jackson has more from Plano, TX.

When your campaign dies, can I have all your stuff?

Donald Trump's candidacy is in the peak of health, but that's not stopping one potential heir (namely, Ted Cruz) from laying claim to all his voters after his presumed political demise. On NBC's Meet the Press, Cruz said he doesn't think Trump will wind up as the Republican nominee, and that he's going to inherit the orphaned anti-establishment voters instead of the race's two other political outsiders, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina. "You know others have gone out of their way to smack him. I haven't," said the guy already sorting through Donald's china cabinet. Read more in Paste BN OnPolitics.

Bernie Sanders' current status: livid

It's nothing new; Bernie Sanders has been in a continuous state of fury since 1963. Today's reason: the lack of a cost-of-living adjustment this year for Social Security recipients. "What seniors are purchasing are not flat-screen TVs," Sanders said. "They are purchasing medicine. They are purchasing health care. Those costs are going up." Sanders' message continues to resonate, despite recent polling gains in New Hampshire by Hillary Clinton. Analysis by the Burlington Free Press says he's a more successful candidate than Howard Dean, which -- come on, guys, let's try to set the bar a bit higher. Kevin Hardy of The Des Moines Register has more on Bernie's Social Security rage.

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If Larry David is unavailable, SNL can always see what Alan Arkin is up to

Larry David stopped by the set of NBC's Saturday Night Live and assumed the role he was born to play: Bernie Sanders. So if Sanders wins the election, will Larry have to come back to SNL full-time?

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