Sanders attracting voters who seek more than protest vote

“At a time when the top political leaders in Vermont are all turning their back on Bernie Sanders and are instead supporting Hillary for president, leading Democrats from across the country are flocking to Iowa to tell Iowans why it is vital to caucus for Hillary”, he concluded.

“Bernie’s appeal is powerful and it resonates with a certain lane of the Democratic electorate for sure, young voters, independent voters”, said Steve McMahon, a Democratic strategist who advised Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign.

“I would not be at all surprised if this goes on for a while and you know, Iowa and New Hampshire are important states…but the rest of us in the country want to have a crack at this too”, he said.

What’s more, though Obama fundraised for his presidential campaigns from Wall Street, he never enriched himself personally as the Clintons have done.

Sen. Claire McCaskill (Missouri), another Clinton convert from the Obama team, said: “She does her best work as an underdog”.

She said people “who are so adamantly opposed” to abortion rights “have no regard for what women’s lives are like”.

Recall this 2008 storyline: Hillary Clinton enters the presidential campaign as the Democratic front-runner, runs into an inspirational candidate who generates big crowds and enthusiasm. “She should be ashamed of her association with Brock”, wrote Sanders communications director Michael Briggs. But supporters couldn’t have been more different. He proudly mentioned a Wall Street Journal interview where the head of a global investment firm said that markets were unsettled, in part, because Sanders was a viable candidate. Her campaign long ago recruited volunteers in all of the state’s 1,680 precincts and for months has been surgically targeting likely caucus-goers.

Clinton has recently been on the defensive about the speaking fees she and her husband have collected. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. speaks at the Fort Museum Opera House in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on January 19.

“I think Bernie is more of a Howard Dean than a Barack Obama”, said Buffy Wicks, a veteran of the Dean and Obama campaigns.

Labor, Planned Parenthood, Human Rights Campaign, and Iowa Senator Cory Booker will all join the former Secretary of State in Iowa this weekend, according to a Hillary for America press release sent to Morocco World News on Friday. President Cecile Richards is holding her own events here Saturday and Sunday.

“We want to win”, chapter President Tammy Wawro said.

“People of Iowa saw through those attacks then and they’re going to see through those attacks again”, Sanders said. He said it was an “un-Republican thing for me to say”, but vowed to “take care of everybody”.

A New York Times article this week said some Democrats are “highlighting his socialist beliefs to warn that he would be an electoral disaster who would frighten swing voters and send Democrats in tight congressional and governor’s races to defeat”. “I will not raise your taxes”, said Clinton. But next up are contests in Nevada and SC, states that have more diverse and centrist voters, which could play to Clinton’s strengths.

Short-circuiting Clinton’s ties with black voters – and African-American women in particular – won’t be easy.