“It’s still an open question: Will people turn out for Trump?” said Tim Hagle, a University of Iowa political science professor.
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Her rival Bernie Sanders, a political outsider, urged his supporters to help him make history and send a message to those who back establishment politics.
“So I say to the Republicans: stop worrying about your campaign funds from big oil, or the Koch brothers, or the coal industry, worry about the planet you’re gonna be leaving your children and grandchildren.”
This is no pet theory: In endorsing Sanders for president last month, liberal magazine The Nation called for a “political revolution” in the Democratic Party, invoking the massive turnout among minorities and young people at Sanders rallies and assuring that “voters can trust Sanders because he doesn’t owe his political career to the financial overlords of the status quo”. “That’s what I’m grappling with right now, especially with my best friend making that shift, a lot of women at Smith are making that shift”, Ms. Batchelder said. While Sanders has a large team in Iowa, his operation got off to a later start, particularly compared with Clinton, who has had staff on the ground in the state for almost a year. The American people will have to make that judgment.
With two days to go before the Iowa presidential caucus, a statewide poll Saturday showed businessman Donald Trump continuing to lead the Republican field, with U.S. Sen. In her traditional campaign speeches, Clinton often slams the planned merger between auto supplier Johnson Controls and Tyco as an abuse of the tax code. In it, James Warren notes that a surprising number of Democrats were ready to go from Team Clinton to Team Trump in a general election.
Monday night will put the campaign’s months of their work to the test. Can the campaign’s organization bring out their supporters?
Ted Cruz: Despite a big win in Iowa, the Tea-Party/evangelical favorite is going to have a much tougher time convincing flinty New Englanders to vote for him. The Caucuses can take hours, especially for the Democrats.
And yet, doubts remain – largely centered around the ongoing FBI investigation of the Clinton email setup.
Weaver stressed that he’s not concerned about the campaign using staffers in Iowa that are not from the state.
According to Clifford, he became concerned when he realized that the return address on the letter was a Clinton campaign office in Sioux City, Iowa, which is about 50 miles away from Hawarden.
‘What a great way to end this campaign in Iowa, ‘ Clinton said, despite her double-digit lead having had shrunk to the point where she could be beat, again, in the Hawkeye state, this time by Sen.
Clinton and Sanders entered Monday in a surprisingly tight Democratic race, reviving memories of the former secretary of state’s disappointing showing in Iowa eight years ago. “I think there’s an honesty issue” – although he attributed some of it to a GOP “smear campaign”. Republicans win when voter turnout is low.
She worked tirelessly to correct the many mistakes of her 2008 effort — embracing voters and wooing them at intimate events.
He chose not to do that – at least not directly.
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While it would not necessarily be against the rules for a precinct captain to come from outside of Iowa, it could offend some Iowa voters.
