Hillary Clinton pushes for votes as Bernie Sanders gains in the polls

“Her diehard supporters are feeling confident, but inside the campaign there is concern as much that she could lose to Sanders in Iowa and/or New Hampshire as what a long protracted, costly battle with Sanders could mean throughout the spring”.

Similar to polls over the past several months, a sizable majority of Democrats, 71%, say they are not bothered by her use of a private email server while she was secretary of State.

Hillary Rodham Clinton didn’t run a very good presidential campaign in 2008 when she was soundly defeated by then Senator Barack Obama and now history may be repeating.

Geographically, Sanders is bolstered by independent voters and clusters of support along the state’s border with Vermont.

A CNN poll gave Sanders a shock lead, 51 percent to 43 percent, and O’Malley at 4 percent.

Also conspicuously absent: The stinging tone of her critiques which accused Sanders of espousing a string of unachievable goals in foreign policy and health care.

Clinton is giving Bernie Sanders one more attack, painting him according to Time, as a starry-eyed idealist incapable of acting on his ambitious agenda.

Former US president Bill Clinton, canvassing for his wife in the early voting states, dismissed Mr Sanders with faint praise for his insurgent campaign that has energised grassroots liberals.

The Vermont senator is leading Clinton by 27 percentage points in New Hampshire, a new CNN/WMUR poll has found. Sanders is the favorite choice of 60 percent of likely Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire compared to 33 percent for Clinton. Both were critical in Obama’s Iowa victory in 2008 and will be counted upon heavily, along with independent voters who can register for the Democratic caucuses if they choose.

“We’re getting down to that part of the election where people are making up their minds”, said Clinton. She drove hard into Sanders’ record in Congress pushing for healthcare plan, saying he had been unable to move the ball forward on the plan because it was impractical.

When it comes to fixing Iran and Saudi Arabia relations and how to fight ISIS troops inside Syria and Iraq, Sullivan says that is clear that Sanders has “not thought it through”. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. signs autographs during a campaign stop, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016, in Peterborough, N.H.