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Sanders Leads Clinton as Caucus Day Approaches

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Where he floundered: I could write the same explanation for why he floundered every time: It doesn’t matter what he says, it doesn’t make dent in the polls.

But he also lowered the ceiling for what “high” means, warning observers not to expect President Obama’s unforgettable Iowa caucus night to be repeated this time around.

At a CNN town hall meeting, Sanders argued that his own judgment, not Clinton’s experience, is the most crucial quality for the next commander-in-chief. Then she pivoted to talk about her past. “The fact that I’m a United States Senator would have been beyond anything they would have thought possible”, he said of his parents.

After the Sanders chat, Obama will immediately go to lunch with Biden. I would also say this, a lot of the important liberal intellectuals, the op-ed writers and such, in 2008 they were split, and a lot of them were for Obama.

And winning Iowa would keep the long shot bid alive for Sanders, who is leading Clinton in polls in New Hampshire, the second stop on the nomination trail. And you know I can’t keep up with it. I just keep going forward”, Ms. Clinton said of why some young voters may think she is dishonest, later adding, “If you’re new to politics, if it’s the first time you really paid attention, you go oh my gosh, look at all of this. Notably, one audience member told her as a prelude to his question that he became a die-hard Clinton supporter after watching all 11 hours of her Congressional testimony about Benghazi. In a Politico interview, Obama called her “wicked smart” and immensely qualified to run the country, in his most extensive comments to date on the race. Should that happen, the O’Malley backers would have to pick another candidate. He instead trained his attacks on Cruz, talking to morning TV shows to disparage the Texas senator as nervous and “such a mess”.

Next Monday, Iowa residents will gather in schools, churches and even private homes to choose among the Republican and Democratic candidates battling to be their party’s 2016 presidential nominee – the first in a series of state-by-state contests to choose delegates to each party’s presidential nominating convention.

“Bernie Sanders is America’s uncle”, Jake Hoyng, 17, who was drawn to Sanders by some of his friends.

Mrs. Clinton responded by saying that “people have thrown all kinds of things at me”.

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The NBC News/Wall Street Journal national poll released before Sanders’ statement supports his claim for Trump, but it has no data against Cruz or Rubio.

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