Dem candidates to attend New Hampshire town hall

If Trump gets a lot of the people who stand in line for hours to get into his rallies to the caucus sites Monday night, that number should be much higher – maybe as high as 150,000. The frontrunner, Donald Trump seems poised to win here. Iowa was 97 percent white-one of the main points of Clinton boosters was that a black man like Obama was unelectable-so Obama’s Iowa victory turned that shaky “conventional wisdom” into a counterfactual. He already has a big lead there, as neighboring-state candidates usually do (Sanders is from Vermont).

Sanders, who describes himself as a democratic socialist, declared his race with Clinton a “toss-up”.

Trump and Cruz are seeking a job in which temperament and tact are paramount.

“We’re not finding Donald Trump’s troops on the ground”. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a campaign rally at Grand View University, on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016, in Des Moines, Iowa. “We’re going to try and if we do that I think it will be good for all of us”, replied Trump.

Mayor de Blasio returned to grassroots politics in Iowa this weekend, knocking on doors and chatting with voters to campaign for his former boss, Hillary Clinton.

In 2008, Barack Obama shattered all Iowa records and helped Iowa Democratic turnout reach 240,000. Even bigger totals Monday evening would point to newcomer caucus-goers turning out.

And winning first is a great place to start. That puts Clinton in a tough spot. But it also means anything else is a bust – and could leave him limping out of the Hawkeye State into New Hampshire, where Trump is also in the lead.

However, political upsets are commonplace in Iowa: Will an establishment Republican – Senator Marco Rubio, perhaps – confound the polls and make it a three-way race?

The campaigns were anxiously keeping an eye on the weather.

Pollsters said with the races both tight, it will come down to which candidate can best get their voters to the polls. Those two factors suggest a moderate candidate who posts a strong showing in Iowa could potentially gain support in New Hampshire from this less-committed moderate pool of voters, who typically make up almost half of GOP primary voters there. They are members of Congress and other elected officials, party leaders and members of the Democratic National Committee.

Voters go to the polls at 7 p.m. local time in Iowa (8 p.m. ET), with the results coming through in the hours that follow and through to the early morning hours on Tuesday if the races are close enough. Democrats gather at 1,100 locations and Republicans at almost 900.

On the night of the caucuses that year, the Iowa Republican Party initially declared Mitt Romney the victor. Republican votes are cast in secret ballots. The state’s 30 Republican delegates are awarded proportionally based on the stateside vote.

Democrats break into groups based on the candidate they support most- which leads to verbal debates and shuffling. And what the candidates are competing for aren’t votes, but support, as determined by a formula that takes past statewide and congressional district voting into account.