Candidates reflect hours ahead of Iowa caucuses

Early arrivals at Iowa’s Republican caucus sites are deeply unhappy with how the federal government is working. Can Marco Rubio restore order to a Republican Party that is in danger of coming apart at its Brooks Brothers seams? But Obama’s unexpected 2008 victory was instrumental in his path to the Democratic nomination, easing the anxieties of those who anxious the young black senator would struggle to win white voters.

By contrast, Democrats vote publicly in a two-stage election where candidates must get support of 15% of caucus-goers in each individual precinct to be viable.

Many Iowans say they are exhausted of “political correctness”.

Obama was a first-term senator from IL when he beat Republican John McCain in 2008. “Her website promises she’ll ‘expand affordable coverage, slow the growth of overall healthcare costs and make it possible for providers to deliver the very best care to patients.’ How exactly?” However, one or two Republican candidates may try to skip New Hampshire to shore up their campaigns in SC, which holds the third Republican primary this year, and it’s likely that at least one candidate will end their campaign after Iowa.

The trio of governors has had a light footprint in Iowa, banking instead on strong showings in New Hampshire’s February 9 primary to jumpstart their White House bids.

The National Weather Service says temperatures in Iowa are expected to remain above freezing when hundreds of thousands of people gather Monday night for the caucuses.

“Bernie Sanders has an opportunity to take a commanding lead in the nomination if he is able to win Iowa and then move to New Hampshire where he has built a seemingly insurmountable lead”, a release accompanying the poll states.

But this year on the GOP side, those voters seem most taken by a candidate who is known for his bullying taunts of other candidates, reporters and whoever is the target of his Twitter feed that day. Here’s what I’ll be watching for when the results start to come in late Monday night. He exhorted supporters at a rally that even if they are sick, they need to get to the caucuses to vote for him. And, by staying away, he avoided putting his foot in it a few days before the vote – not that putting his foot in it has hurt candidate Trump.

Army Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland spoke by teleconference from Iraq.

MaFarland says the United States has a guiding set of principles that govern how American forces conduct themselves on the battlefield. Mooney is also chairing Cruz’s West Virginia campaign.

“I think we’re at a point where folks are fired up and realize if they want to make a difference they have to get out and participate in the process”, Briggs said. However, they aren’t particularly intuitive to understand or follow. But the entrepreneur from Yale, Iowa, decided, after some final research on both campaigns’ websites, to caucus for the outsider Trump, who has never held elected office.

He bragged about his recent endorsements, including Jerry Falwell Jr. and Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Hillary Clinton is leading Bernie Sanders by around 3 percentage points, and Donald Trump is ahead of Ted Cruz by a more comfortable 8-point margin. “We’re taking this all of the way”.

Cruz’s allies have continued to try to raise doubts about the authenticity of Trump’s faith.

A simple guide to the Hawkeye state caucuses.

Cruz has advocated phasing out ethanol subsidies over time – a position that is deeply unpopular in the agricultural state.

Clinton has said she did nothing wrong and that the emails were not marked classified at the time she received or sent them. Clinton and Sanders are now tied with 19 delegates each.

Bringing iced coffee and doughnuts, Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, are mingling and snapping selfies with several dozen volunteers.

Vogel attended a Clinton rally in Ames on Saturday, but isn’t supporting a candidate yet.

Iowa’s politics often split between the state’s east and west. The eastern part of the state is more liberal, with cities like Cedar Rapids and Des Moines, which have relatively well-educated citizens, and liberal college towns like Iowa City, Ames and Cedar Falls.

“I feel like I grew up in a pretty equitable society where I think men and women are based fairly”, said Vogel’s friend Julia Zappa, a sophomore at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul.