Thank you for this.

I'm hoping that a Sanders WIN in Iowa will be the snowball that starts the avalanche.

her you're rewarding 25 years of smears.

Unless they mean smears coming from her.

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17 years of smears when the people chose then Senator Obama as their new Democratic Nominee and eventual two term President?

That made me laugh out loud! So tense today -- I keep looking at this site -- which is not helping my tenseness at all. So I needed that laugh!

If Sanders gets in it would make all that effort so much easier these next several years -- oh, and we get to survive as a species, which would be nice too -- not that I am putting too much pressure on tonight's results. I need to settle down. And laugh more.

were smearing Hillary themselves. Quite a few of them on DU, I got banned from the Hillary group for warning them about the turncoats among them. A ban by the way that I wear like a badge.

move on.

but it never sinks through the bubble. That it's true matters not to those who live within.

fucking monumentally stupid it isn't even worth rebutting.

Kept talking about how everybody beats up on her. Polling probably shows it works with her followers.

Poor little thing, so picked on. Don't forget, life is hard for Hillary Clinton.

A close win that carries momentum. Enough momentum to flip the massive Clinton edge in super Tuesday states and to make her pledged super delegates change their minds.

It's possible if not probable.

Pretty insulting to the voters in the other states - oversimplified to say they will switch because some other state gave Bernie some number of delegates.

Obama in 20087 was covered in the story
Kerry was not expected to Win IA in 2004. Dean was. No one expect Edwards either.
Clinton came from nowhere in 1992. His second place finish in NH changed people's votes as just as the article described.
Though not successful, Hart made a serious challenge after landing 2nd in IA in 1984. That charged New England for him. He wasn't going to win there before the IA victory.
IA made Jimmy Carter for the same reasons.


If the past is insulting to the voters of other states, they certainly don't seem too bothered based on the past 4 decades.

the more you will follow the safe/known path. That's been proven. Conservatives are uncomfortable with change. But if there is enough support for it, they will eventually change because they know it's the right thing to do. Look at gay rights, women's rights, civil rights. It takes a long time to get change to happen because it has to build momentum first. This current revolution has been building for sometime. We now have the surge, we just need to show it in the numbers for more conservatives to feel safe in joining us.

Voters prefer to back a winner, and candidates appear more attractive the more likely they are to win.

The same dynamics...ability to win. Once that hits home it hits big.

Once it does, the barrier evaporates in a puff of logic.

right up the moment when she suddenly sinks, just like '08 and the Titanic.

Did DU get it wrong in 2008 or are they getting it wrong today?

Some did, some didn't. Just as some voted for Clinton because she was a woman, and some didn't.

Some folks run off identity politics, some don't.