Donald Trump holds a commanding lead in Iowa as Sen. Bernie Sanders takes control of the Democratic race in the critical first-in-the-nation voting state, according to a new CNN/ORC poll released Thursday. CONT. Tal Kopan, CNN Read more »
For Clinton, It’s Time to Stay Cool in Iowa and New Hampshire
Sometimes politicians get into a tough position with no easy way out, and their best option is just to plow straight ahead. Hillary Clinton is now in such a position. CONT. Charlie Cook Read more »
Countdown to Caucus Day
Two weeks from today, Iowans will gather at caucus sites around the state in the first formal balloting of the 2016 presidential election. As the candidates make their final pitches, voters in the early states will solidify their choices — if they haven’t already — and the rest of us […] Read more »
Can Clinton find the spark to fend off the challenge from Sanders?
… It seemed unimaginable that a Clinton, particularly a Clinton who could become the first woman U.S. president in history, could be overshadowed in a political campaign this year and yet that’s currently the case. Trump and Trumpism loom over the entire country. His candidacy is the talk everywhere, for […] Read more »
An Unusual Campaign Has More Traditional Look in Iowa Than in New Hampshire
For an election that has been anything but conventional, the latest Marist/NBC polling out of Iowa finds things lining up in familiar ways. For Trump or Sanders to win they need new, non-traditional caucus goers to show up and vote. That is how Obama won in 2008 and why Howard […] Read more »
Iowa: Sanders, Clinton Going Down to the Wire
Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are locked in a two-point race in Iowa ahead of the Feb. 1 caucuses, raising the prospect that eight years after her stinging loss there to Barack Obama, the state that kicks off the presidential nominating process may once again deal the front-runner a […] Read more »