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Hillary Clinton in trouble as Bernie Sanders closes the gap

Clinton is still leading Sanders in the RealClearPolitics average of Iowa polls by 4.7 points, but recent polls have found that the Democratic presidential race has tightened considerably since the autumn.

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The survey polled 500 New Hampshire voters who said they were “very likely” to vote in the state’s February 9 Democratic primary.

Sanders’s approach to fighting ISIS came under attack this week from a group of foreign policy experts supporting Clinton.

On Wednesday night, the campaign sent out a fundraising email asking for cash to compete with Sanders on the airwaves in Iowa and New Hampshire. “He’s been in Congress, he’s been elected to office a lot longer than I have”, Clinton said.

Other Hawkeye State polls have continued to show Clinton at the top. In a Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll taken earlier this month, 43 percent of likely Democratic caucus-goers described themselves as socialists.

In the last such CNN/ORC poll in Iowa, Sanders trailed Clinton by 18 points.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, joined by musician Demi Lovato, right, speaks during a rally on the campus of University of Iowa Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016, in Iowa City, Iowa. Sanders polls higher among women and Millennials, who were previously thought a solid voting block for Clinton. “I wish there was a spot for Bernie helping Hillary”. “There are probably some people that are saying, ‘Jesus Christ, not again'”.

While Sanders has cut into Clinton’s lead nationally, the former secretary of State continues to hold substantial leads over Sanders among older voters and minorities.

“I don’t know that there really is a political mainstream anymore, and Democrats are having the same problem that Republicans are having …” While Clinton now has 359 superdelegates supporting her, Sanders only has eight.

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She also tried to pin the “establishment” label on Sanders. 69% of Democratic primary voters have confidence in her ability to deal with terrorism, compared with 57% who say that about Sanders. “I guess I’m pretty much convinced that I’ll probably caucus for Hillary”, says Beverly Krejsa, a lab technician from Warren County.

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