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Sanders starts 2020 in strong position in Iowa and New Hampshire — CBS News Battleground Tracker CBS News

The New Year opens with Bernie Sanders in his best standing yet against the field in Iowa and New Hampshire. He’s in a first-place tie with Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg in Iowa. All three are at 23%, and each would get a similar number of delegates out of the […] Read more »

Crowded Democratic presidential field sprints toward ‘jump ball’ in crucial Iowa caucuses

… After a year of campaigning, and with less than a month to go before the first and therefore most important single contest in the Democratic nomination fight, few if any are confident of the outcome. At least four candidates are seen as having a shot to win Iowa, or, […] Read more »

With A Month To Go Before Iowa And New Hampshire, Anything Can Happen

Democrats all want one thing: to beat Donald Trump. The problem is, they can’t agree on who’s best to do that. … So what’s the state of play a month out? How predictive are Iowa and New Hampshire for who becomes the Democratic nominee? And should we even pay attention […] Read more »

New Year’s Irresolutions and the Democratic Field

This post gives my end of the year thoughts on the Democratic field. I am writing it so we can all look back in a few months and see how wrong it was, and, indeed, many factors provide uncertainty about what the next few months will bring. Certainly many of […] Read more »

These two candidates are best positioned to be this election’s ‘Iowa cyclone’

Want to know who will win the Iowa Democratic caucuses in five weeks? Don’t look to the current polls: Look for this election’s Iowa cyclone. An “Iowa cyclone” — the name is derived from the nickname of Iowa State University’s athletic teams — is a candidate who rises dramatically in […] Read more »