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Coverage from the road and the campaign trail from Yahoo Politics.

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President Obama Makes His Way To Deliver His final State of the Union Address

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Obama enters his final SOTU address

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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) is speaking at a town hall at the American Legion in Alton, New Hampshire. --Hunter Walker

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Yahoo News filmed this video of a man named Ender Austin III being removed from a Donald Trump presidential campaign rally in Las Vegas on Monday night. Austin later told Yahoo he was with a group called Unity Vegas that supports the #BlackLivesMatter movement. You can read the full story on Yahoo.com/politics -Hunter Walker

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Here is the excerpt of Yahoo News' interview with Donald Trump where he discusses surveillance on the Muslim community here in the U.S. --Hunter Walker

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President Clinton is watching Hillary speak at the Central Iowa Democrats Fall BBQ in Ames.

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@pogueman playing us off with his rendition of "Clowntown" about the 2016 Presidential candidates (& with apologies to Petula Clark)

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Three out of four African-Americans and Latinos and two out of three Asians believe the Web and social media have “made political discussion more representative of what Americans really think.”

Read more here.

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We learned about the power of hashtag activism from our friends in the Middle East.... Our generation wants to own our own lives, our own narratives.

Morgan DeBaun, activist and founder of Blavity

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For so long I thought I was the only one having this experience [of having my family deported]. Now I have found a community through social media.

Diane Guerrero of @oitnb and Jane the Virgin, on how she got involved in immigration reform and the role of social media in activism among POC.

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Some results from a @yahoonews survey exploring race and the political process to kick off our last panel “The revolution will be mobilized: Race, ethnicity and social media”

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Is social media ruining politics? Here's what you can do, according to our panelists...

Jon Ward (Yahoo News): READ OR DIE

Nicholas Carr (journalist): Put down your phone for 3 hours every day.

Brad Jenkins (Funny or Die): Follow people who disagree with you.

Nicco Mele (Dean Campaign/Harvard/LATimes): Get involved in local politics.

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What keeps me up at night is young people becoming apathetic and disengaged from their democracy.

Brad Jenkins of @funnyordie, sidestepping the disagreement between the other 2 panelists and taking us back to the fact that social media is really about reaching people where they are.

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Is social media ruining politics? Panel kicks off with a @funnyordie video about political scandals. Fair amount of disagreement among panelists Nick Carr & @nicco, check it out at yahoo.com/politics.

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Beyond the firewall: how real is the cyber threat?

Greg Nojeim (of CDT): The problem is this is was all being done in secret. There have to be rules and oversight re: when the gov can listen in to your conversations.

Matt Olsen (fmr NSA, now of IronNet): The problem is that Snowden didn't only release info about the metadata program and its domestic implications, but about how the NSA does its work to target terrorists abroad - which has undermined our security.

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The Yahoo Conference on Technology & Politics is happening today at Drake University. 

Watch panels on cyber threats, social media ruining politics (is it?), and how race plays into social media and politics. 

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Social media can be both a tool to democratize the political process/empower citizens AND to give campaigns more control over their message.

Good fodder from Mindy Finn to take up in this afternoon’s panel “Is social media ruining politics?” #DigitalDemocracy

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How to win a digital campaign

Mindy Finn: Campaigns have to be media companies, give access to the candidates and to the process.

Matthew Macgregor: But success online has to build on the fundamental strengths of the candidate - Obama would still have lost online after the first debate in 2012 even if we'd been on top of twitter because he just didn't perform well.

Scott Goodstein: And you can't always anticipate what's going to work online - John Stewart made fun of us for our ring tones, but it still benefitted our text message list.