Trump and Sanders hold big leads in Iowa polls

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On the other side of the 2016 campaign world, Donald Trump got two “cease and desist” letters from Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler’s camp to stop using “Dream On” during his presidential run.

“Bernie, Hillary, and Martin: you are running for the highest office in the land; the most influential in the world”, the Democrats wrote in a letter to the candidates. And she winds up in a dogfight in Iowa.

Fifty-seven percent of voters thought Sanders represented Democratic values, while Clinton scored 38 percent.

Thirty-five percent of voters say Clinton would make either a good or great president, with 11 percent saying she would be great. On Tuesday, Clinton’s campaign released a statement with former top diplomats questioning the Vermont senator’s preparedness to handle ISIS, Iran and other national security concerns. “I don’t know anybody in this audience that have not had their own share”, Clinton said.

The sampling is key for both leaders: Only including voters who previously caucused in their party’s most recent competitive caucus, Cruz is neck-and-neck with Trump, with 30 percent for Cruz to 28 percent for Trump.

Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon are not listed among the celebrities who have endorsed Sanders. She says she is, “torn between [Clinton] and Bernie”. “He just can not defeat a Republican candidate in a general election”.

With almost 2.5 million separate contributions so far, if only half of Sanders’ small dollar contributors played the game, it could raise over $6 million every time the Clinton campaign throws mud. Just last month, in a prior CNN/ORC poll, Clinton was beating Sanders 54% to 36%. For example, he suggested we invite Iranian troops into Syria.

“We can’t rush into normalizing relations”, she said.

Sanders, like Obama, has sought to offer a more uplifting, aspirational message.

As for the ad itself, it features people from all walks of life – young and old, black and white, man and woman. Bernie Sanders, who has closed the gap in the Hawkeye State.

But one major question entering Iowa is whether there will be enough of these voters.

The tagline of Sanders’s ad, “A Future To Believe In”, consciously evokes Barack Obama’s famous 2008 slogan “Change We Can Believe In”.

Clinton also referenced her four years as Secretary of State while taking aim at her chief rival on foreign policy. These voters remember his donations to Democratic candidates (which he has since disavowed as a business necessity) and support for abortion rights (which he has rationalized as trying to fit in with left-leaning New Yorkers).