The talking points they are putting out there, however, are less than convincing, as I learned as a guest on the public radio show “To the Point” yesterday, when I heard a Sanders supporter argue that an Iowa win would greatly boost Bernie’s African-American support just like it did for Obama in SC in 2008.
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The Sanders campaign did not return a request for comment on what else the senator has done on Flint.
“I hope that at the end of that night”, he said of February 1, “what people all across this country will see is the people of Iowa saying yes, we are part of the political revolution”.
This latest poll further indicates that Sanders is now a legitimate threat to Clinton’s frontrunner status. Bernie Sanders of Vermont has built a commanding lead over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton among likely Democratic primary voters.
Foiled by Sanders’ tough but tactful issue-oriented campaign strategy, Hillary’s aggressive attempt to paint her opponent as a drastic flip-flopper throughout the debate has missed the mark, causing her to appear less like the strong contender she aimed at portraying, and more like a candidate desperate to hold on to her shrinking lead.
A new Monmouth University poll released Tuesday found Sanders trailing Clinton, 52-37, among national Democratic voters. Clinton, meanwhile, focuses on the pragmatic instead of the aspirational, using her experience as a guide to what can get done.
Hillary Clinton is dropping in the polls and her attacks on Bernie Sanders in the Democratic debate only prove that the front-runner is anxious she may lose that title.
Priorities USA, a group backing Clinton, said the ad was designed by Republicans to “interfere with our primary process” and “attempt to clear their path to the White House”.
Three weeks before Granite Staters head to the polls to select their favorites to be their parties’ presidential nominees, U.S. Sen.
Also, Sanders was named by 58 percent as the candidates with “the personal characteristics and qualities that a president should have”.
To envision an even more radical restructuring of USA health care is delusional, she suggested. But Monday ended with dueling rallies where each Democratic presidential hopeful made the argument for where they are the most electable in a general election.
But a vast majority of minority voters still overwhelmingly favor Clinton.
On the economy, New Hampshire voters now clearly give Sanders the edge over Clinton as the candidate more trusted to handle it: 57% say Sanders would best handle it vs. 33% for Clinton.
But this analysis gets the 2016 dynamic precisely wrong-if anything, Clinton’s refusal to match Sanders’ extravagant promises is her biggest weakness in the Democratic primary.
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Yet as Graham notes, there are other things that could have influenced the change – not enough debates, backlash from the DNC debacle over the data breach, or even just no one bothering to do much to attack Sanders while he’s on the campaign trail, leading to his increasing popularity.
