Sanders seeks to build on burst of momentum in Iowa

More voters were likely watching the debate between Lady Mary, Mr. Carson and Misses Hughes, than they were the Democrat debate between comrade Bernie and Queen Hillary, which is exactly what Hillary’s lady-in-waiting, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, had in mind when scheduling the debate. “However, he would still have to overcome Clinton’s demographic advantage in the ensuing contests”, said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute in West Long Branch, New Jersey. A fact. Anyone disagree with me?

Clinton aides said Sanders, a self-identified democratic socialist who casts himself as above politics as usual, was undermining Obama’s achievements by questioning the effectiveness of his party.

While Clinton did not mention Sanders by name, her argument on experience was clear.

The bottom line is that in Iowa, Clinton’s lead over Sanders is within the margin of error, and in New Hampshire, she trails Sanders by several points.

While Mrs. Clinton leads nationwide, Mr. Sanders is a threat in key states.

The Democratic National Committee scheduled its first debate on a Tuesday in October.

Clinton attacked Sanders for his views on gun control in earlier debates; after it was revealed that he had voted for a bill exonerating owners of gun shops for selling firearms to customers that went on to commit violent acts.

On Sunday, the Sanders Facebook page posted an interesting graphic that has been making its way around the interweb, meant to demonstrate the difference between his campaign and the Hillary Clinton redux effort.

Still, Sanders – who has served in Congress since 1991 – said he opposed term limits on lawmakers, calling it “an easy way out of a complicated problem”. “It’s not that it hasn’t worked”, Briggs answered.

Sanders said his universal health care had been the cause of two Democratic Party forefathers: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S Truman.

Truth be told, that still seems unlikely to happen. Here, not only did Ms Clinton strongly defend Mr Obama’s flagship healthcare legislation and criticise Mr Sanders’s alternative plan, she also highlighted gun violence (another Obama pet-issue) and tore into her opponent’s arguably weak record on the issue. But he also turned his fire on Clinton. Bill Clinton in 1993 signed into law the Brady bill, which mandated background checks and a five-day waiting period on gun purchases, as well as the 1994 law that included a ban on certain assault weapons.

Things are moving fast; Iowa Democrats are choosing quickly.

Obama remains very popular in Iowa, where he won in 2008 and where 91 percent of Democrats have a favorable opinion of him today, according to a recent DesMoines Register/Bloomberg poll. More minds will be made up each day. Now, under pressure from left-leaning challenger Bernie Sanders, she is embracing him and his legacy with fervor. Mook then asked the recipient to “Chip in $1 now”.

“I don’t need Wall Street’s money, I am fighting for a political revolution that rises from the middle class and those are the people who are funding my campaign”, Sanders said lashing out at “corrupt campaign financing”. “We were 50 points behind the inevitable, the inevitable Democratic nominee!”

Byron York is chief political correspondent for The Washington Examiner. Now, that’s a change.