The Sanders campaign has built their own reporting system to check the results from the official Microsoft-backed app. It has trained its precinct captain on using the app, which is created to be as user friendly as possible, and the campaign will also staff a hotline system as further redundancy.
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“By and large, over the last seven years on major issue after major issue, I have stood by his side where he has taken on unprecedented Republican obstructionism and has tried to do the right thing for the American people”, Sanders said after the meeting.
President Obama campaigns in Iowa in 2008. A largely elderly crowd of 450 listened quietly, clapping politely at her applause lines. “We were always concerned that this would have been the first time in 32 years without a Democratic debate before the New Hampshire primary”.
“I do want you to know that I am not just shouting slogans, I am not just engaging in rhetoric”, Clinton said. With warnings of terrorist attacks around the globe and talk of a possible economic downturn amidst growing inequity, the stakes couldn’t be higher. “This is really hard, slow, painful political work to get through the thicket of objections, of special interests and powerful forces”.
Kasich has focused most of his early attention on New Hampshire, where he’s competing for votes from GOP moderates and independents against candidates including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. The overall tone was polite, in contrast to a more rancorous fourth debate between the three last week.
Sanders has said previously that he could win Iowa but his comments suggested an attempt to lower expectations in the final week before the caucuses.
Just a day earlier, Clinton had been soaking in presidential praise.
“If I lose Iowa by two votes and end up with virtually the same number of delegates…is that a tragedy? No”, Sanders said aboard a charter flight en route to Duluth, Minnesota, where he spoke at a rally with 6,000 supporters. If not, I think we’ll be struggling.
Sanders rails against the gap between the nation’s wealthy and poor, which has grown during Obama’s presidency, and slams the role of Wall Street and big corporations in the economy.
“(S)he’s extraordinarily experienced – and, you know, wicked smart and knows every policy inside and out – (and) sometimes (that) could make her more cautious, and her campaign more prose than poetry”, Obama said. She also addressed corruption in campaign finance, and the impact of Citizens United. She’s held more than 100 Iowa events since announcing her campaign in April.
To be sure, one GOP super PAC has gone after Sanders, depicting him as “too liberal for Iowa”.
“It was mid-summer before Sanders had people on the ground”, said Matt Tapscott, Democratic chairman of Winneshiek County, where Decorah is located.
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