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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and his allies are taking new steps toward launching a presidential campaign, including interviews with dozens of potential staffers and hiring a pollster and national fundraiser, according to a person close to the Democrat.He’s already launched a political action committee that allows him to raise money nationally and hired his 2014 campaign manager, Brad Komar, to run it. Since the PAC was formed in September, Komar has done 80 interviews with possible campaign staffers, the person said. Of those, Hickenlooper has conducted or participated in 30 interviews. The operation has hired Democratic veteran Anna Greenberg as...

Democratic pollster Anna Greenberg said in an interview that aired Tuesday on "What America's Thinking" that immigration has been politically weaponized in the U.S. ahead of November's midterm elections. "I don't think we're having a policy debate in this election. I think we're having a cultural debate," she said. She said that when it comes to immigration policy, people are fairly reasonable regardless of party. "The problem is it's weaponized politically, and so that makes it much harder to have an actual rational debate about it," she said. Seventy-five percent of Americans say they believe immigration, in general, is good...