Clinton has narrow edge over Sanders in Iowa

Both Clinton and Sanders have high favorability ratings, and voting for either candidate will leave most voters feeling either “enthusiastic” or “satisfied”. The president cast Clinton as ready to go on Day One, and Sanders as a compelling political star, but also a “bright, shiny object” in need of some more scrutiny.

Sanders this week picked up a noteworthy flip from the Clinton camp, winning an endorsement from state Rep. Justin Bamberg, a lawyer who represents the Walter Scott family. “I am, you know, anxious, if we can get something set up, to be able to be there”. If Sanders wins Iowa, he has nothing to gain and everything to lose by debating in New Hampshire. Most of the conversation centered on Wall Street and how he would change issues like healthcare, student debt and minimum wage for the better. “Free college would be wonderful”, said a young man wearing a Bernie button. They’ve spent months doing outreach to likely voters, cultivating relationships to ensure they show up on Monday night. “He can’t be bought”, said one, referring to Sanders’ refusal to take Political Action Committee money and instead relying on small donations from millions of people.

Clinton’s physician, Dr. Lisa Bardack, said the former secretary of state has hypothyroidism and takes blood thinners connected with a clot discovered around the time she fainted in 2012, which caused Clinton to suffer a concussion and led to questions about her health.

Clinton has 47% support compared to Sanders’ 42%, according to a Monmouth University survey released Thursday. Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver said the campaign reminded staffers it was inappropriate “and that they should not do it again”.

As I wrote yesterday: An increasing number of people have voiced suspicion that the ferocious trolling instigated by the slightest positive mention of Hillary has its roots in shadowy conservative astroturf operations. “I really wasn’t expecting that, and I didn’t know that it would be top of mind for so many people”.

“Do I plan on running more contrast ads?”

“I’m not saying we can do what Barack Obama did in 2008 – I wish we could – but I don’t think we can”. While Sanders has surged in recent opinion polls, Clinton still has the edge nationally. “He was…marching with Martin Luther King back in 1963”. Dr. Harold N. Bornstein also said Trump has had “no significant medical problems” over 39 years and recently had “astonishingly excellent” blood pressure and lab results. “But he has to make that real to African-American voters on the ground”, Harrison says.

“We have always been willing to add additional debates beyond the six that had been scheduled and look forward to starting discussions on scheduling debates in April and May”, Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon said in an email to reporters.

Sexism is not the only bad behavior demonstrated online by Sanders supporters – an ugly racial element has arisen, too. But it comes amid a push by Sanders to make policing the financial sector central to his presidential campaign. “The middle class is getting screwed”, said a woman with grey locks.

“From the beginning, as is the case for many Americans, I did not give Sen”.

“One would have thought by the year 2016 we would have gotten beyond that type of xenophobia and racism”, Sanders said.

“What the President has tried to do, what Vice President Biden has tried to do, is to be as even-handed as they can be”. The last time Democrats had a contested race was in 2008.