Democratic campaigns converge in Q-C

There’s a little more than a week to go before the first-in-the-nation caucuses, and Sanders and Clinton have been sharpening their language toward one another, including over health care. “I am running for president of the United States because I believe that in our great country we can do a lot better for working people and poor people than we are now doing”.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, who jumped to second place in the latest WMUR/CNN New Hampshire Primary Poll of Republican candidates, trails Sanders, 56 percent to 33 percent, with independents favoring Sanders, 56 percent to 24 percent.

“We got the entire political establishment heading to Iowa this week”, Sanders said at an earlier event in Davenport.

FiveThirtyEight, which utilizes factors beyond polls in its “polls-plus” predictions, gives Hillary Clinton an 85 percent chance to take the state, with Sanders at 15 percent and O’Malley at less than 1 percent. The 14 students covering the various campaigns will return to campus February 2 after the Iowa caucuses.

“We want to win”, chapter President Tammy Wawro said. Another notable caveat to the CNN poll: while, like most polls, it controls for “likely caucus-goers”, when it asked those who actually did caucus in 2008, Clinton was the favorite by a 55-38 margin.

“Everybody has been talking about the divide in the Republican party for months, but there is a real struggle also going on within the Democratic Party”, said said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center in Boston, according to The Boston Globe. Sanders. It’s bad enough that Hillary Clinton is raising millions in special-interest money in her Super Pacs. “We have our differences, but we are much more in line with one another than we are with any of the Republicans”.

Her rival Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, has raised concerns in particular over the 5,000 she made from Goldman Sachs, an investment bank that has regularly used its influence with government officials to win favorable policies.

“If you have a auto”, said Dhruv Gupta, 21, president of Grinnellians for Sanders at Grinnell College, “you are enlisted”. Bernie Sanders – a self-described socialist whose more logical stronghold would be in Iowa and New Hampshire – want to challenge the enduring narrative that Clinton’s hold on the Palmetto State is impenetrable. “It was shorter than I expected”, Hall said. “But it’s curious. I’m in the Bernie camp and we certainly feel good”. “We have got to start rebuilding the Democratic Party here in the state of Iowa”.

Clinton worked the argument into a host of issues, stressing both the urgency to get them done and her experience.

The moment came as Clinton greeted voters near the podium. This support also means that Clinton is unlikely to be able to cast him as unelectable and impractical.

“It’s important that she draw more contrasts with Sanders without ticking off his supporters”, said former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, a Clinton endorser.

“I think he cares for people in America, so whether it’s immigrants, or people coming over our borders, or the black and brown populations here, I can tell that he really does want equality”, Freemon said. During a brief interview on his campaign bus, Sanders told Vermont Public Radio he’s confident that as more voters tune in, his record on issues like criminal justice reform and immigration will resonate in the communities he’ll need to win the nomination.