Things to know about delegates at stake in Iowa caucuses

“It is great. You get to see them first-hand”, Mitchell said. No matter who wins the nomination, democracy is best served by more debates.

On Saturday: John Kasich heads to New Hampshire while the rest of the field campaigns in Iowa. “We should use the spotlight of the presidential campaign to keep the focus on Flint, and to lift up the historic underlying issues that Flint and too many other predominantly low-income communities of color across America are struggling with every day”, Podesta said.

None of this would have happened with Rachel Maddow pressing and both campaigns being open to more debates. “I think he was probably the most honest man in politics that we’ve ever seen in a generation”.

“Well, look, you know, when the Republicans do primetime debates they get 20 million, 25 million people watching it”, Sanders told MSNBC host Rachel Maddow last week.

On the Democratic side, Clinton holds a narrow lead over Sanders, 45 percent to 42 percent. Clinton, on the other hand, will likely win the night if she can pull in the votes on the state’s southern border among affluent voters. The Iowa caucuses, after all, aren’t just another election where voters trudge to a nearby church and punch a hole in a piece of paper.

J. Ann Selzer, whose Selzer & Company conducts the Iowa Poll, was the only pollster to accurately predict the 2004 Democratic caucus order. But when we came to Washington, we made a different choice. The candidates crisscrossed Iowa Saturday in a frenzied weekend prelude to the first presidential contest of the 2016 race.

Clinton has worked assiduously to avoid a repeat of 2008, when then-Illinois Sen.

She faced the prospect of escalating political heat from revelations Friday that the private email server she used when she was Obama’s first secretary of state contained top-secret messages that should have remained within proper, secured channels.

That heat was coming from Republicans; Sanders earlier declared the email flap a nonissue in his mind.

This is a largely symbolic concession – the O’Malley supporters’ votes would go to Sanders in the caucus, but in the county conventions later on, their delegate could switch back to supporting O’Malley.

In interviews with CNN, several voters said were it not for Trump, they would have most likely backed Cruz in the primary. “The part that showed you the biggest difference between me and Senator Cruz and Senator Rubio. It wasn’t you know pie in the sky”, said Hillary Clinton. “How can we continue to ignore the toll this is taking on our children and our country?”

With Hillary Clinton agreeing to add more Democratic debates to the schedule, Bernie Sanders suggested that he is willing to do the New Hampshire debate in February.

Thanks to the efforts of Rachel Maddow, and a new agreement between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, Democratic voters might get additional primary debates in February, March, April, and May. Marco Rubio’s town hall meeting Saturday morning at Bev’s on the River in Sioux City.