For Trump and His Rivals, The Race to Iowa Is Strictly a Numbers Game

… Over the past two weeks, six polls released nation­ally, and in Iowa and New Hampshire—the critical first two states—show Trump’s support converging with noticeably little variation at around one-third of the Republican vote. Each of those polls shows Trump leading his rivals. Four polls released Tuesday morning also largely reinforce these patterns.

The consistency of Trump’s coalition across these different battlefields underscores the extent to which the presidential primaries are becoming a nationalized contest in which voters everywhere are moved by the same saturated media coverage of the campaign. CONT.

Ronald Brownstein, National Journal

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