What we learned from CPAC 2015

Rand Paul won the straw poll. Jeb Bush got booed. Hillary Clinton, and the media, were bashed to no end.
Those were the headlines from this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference, a celebration for the GOP’s activist set and one of the first major Republican cattle calls of the 2016 presidential race. Beneath the surface, though, the confab revealed much about the contours of the emerging primary fight.
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