Clinton hopes to have much different outcome in SC

Indeed, had it not been for the superiority of her ground operation in Iowa, many say privately that she would have been swamped by the wave of enthusiasm for Sanders. Paul Wellstone, a champion of liberal causes, would not be considered progressive. The Derry high schooler said she knows friends who like Sanders and his proposal for free tuition at colleges, but she considers it “not realistic”. And I think the significance is that – for folks who did not think Bernie Sanders could win, that we could compete against Hillary Clinton, I hope that that thought is now gone.

“I would not expect panic mode or her to go on the attack”, said Arthur Lupia, a political science professor at the Center for Political Studies at the University of MI.

The Iowa caucuses have huge symbolic power, and while they don’t always predict who will be sworn in as the next president, they can offer a crucial boost to candidates who do well.

Sanders’ campaign wanted one of the debates to be held in California and another in Brooklyn, New York, and questioned why Clinton, a former New York senator, might be reluctant to debate in her adopted home state.

The presidential debate Thursday night will reflect a changing Democratic race. That was the point that Bill Clinton made on the campaign stop yesterday.

“We’ve been fighting the progressive fight and getting results for people for years”, Clinton said. “And I hope you will choose with both your heart and your mind”. “And I’m taking my ideas and my record to the people of New Hampshire this week”. They support Sanders because they believe he is real, honest and authentic in an age when politicians are obsessed with who gives them the money to purchase their policies and buy television campaign ads laced with platitudes, spin and often falsehoods. On Twitter, Clinton’s top spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri compared it to the moment in 2008 when President Barack Obama said during a debate that Clinton was “likable enough”, which prompted criticism from Clinton supporters.

Iowa then was not just a big step toward the nomination for Clinton. I have that dialogue at least, you know, once a day in some setting or another. She had to wake up earlier than I did because she had to get her hair done.

“This is not a low blow”. “Bernie is energizing a lot of young voters, he’s energizing a lot of first time people, and the raw material is really there in Texas to turn Texas blue”. “Some of my best friends are moderates”, he said. “Of course I am a Democrat and running for the Democratic nomination”, he said.

Clinton narrowly defeated Sanders in Monday’s Iowa caucuses but Sanders has maintained a solid lead in New Hampshire. That’s unprecedented, best we can tell. She campaigned here in 2008.

The two sides have been debating more debates for about a week now, ever since Clinton announced she would attend the MSNBC debate.

More than 80 percent of those who think honesty is the quality that matters most in a candidate backed Sanders in the Iowa caucuses, according to entrance polls.

“One of the things that I know the team will grapple with – and this is something that people like me have to grapple with – is just making it simple and straightforward”, Kaine said. “They don’t have to be for me, I will be for them”.