So any lead Bernie might have in NH is likely to be overcome if Hillary wins Iowa.

Past those two states, its hard to see Bernie winning any of the next couple. Even if you give Bernie NH and a split of the next 4-5 contests, how does someone with so little money compete in the rest of the contests. That takes a lot of money.

sure they already have the next scandal ready to float.

couldn't tear her down with all they had, yet again. Hillary Clinton, 284, media, 0.

next thing you'll be doing is saying Hillary is the only one of the candidates of both parties to accept speaking fees. And wait, haven't Republicans spoken at Clinton Foundation/Initiative events too?

should not run for president of the United States.

The perception of conflicts of interest will haunt you if you are elected.

Again, it shows poor judgment.

You either fund-raise for a non-profit (an admirable thing to do) OR you seek the power to deny or reward the requests from those from whom you have or have not received money for your foundation.

Any person with an iota of integrity would understand this.

Even if she isn't doing it, Hillary can easily be accused of selling favors in exchange for foundation donations.

And it does happen in the non-profit sector. I hate to say that, but it does.

Fake charity scandal.

We sure don't want rich people donating to the Clinton Foundation so they can in turn do some good works in poor countries. And I sure don't want Hillary to get any more large speaking fees because that would mean she would be donating even more money to charities. Sheesh!

it into a political liability. It is so Rovian I can't believe some here don't see through it. Or maybe they do, but they figure it helps their candidate of choice.

But we don't want people who head foundations or fund-raise for foundations running for public offices in which they may have the authority to do favors or deny favors for people who are actual or potential donors to the foundation.

Do you understand the conflict there?

Hillary may be the most honest person in the world who would never return a favor for someone who has assisted her foundation, but tell that to Fox News. They will be all over her the minute anything resembling a favor for one of Hillary's donors happens should Hillary be elected.

Sometimes we have to make choices.

If I were Hillary, I would reconsider my candidacy. The potential conflict of interest and the accusations of conflicts of interest would be a huge liability if not in the election cycle, at some point later on.

We have to make choices.

She would be an awful general election candidate if she could only get 61% of Democrats while running unopposed.

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numbers decrease given how high they were to begin with.

We all know that those numbers are not going to hold. It isn't even Labor Day yet.

she is suppose to stay at like 61?

the gap had been shortin, or we are living in an alternate universe.

And this latest poll, when added, will show an arrest on the convergence, as Clinton is 4 points above the last average and Sanders is 11 points below.

Not soon enough to save me from that embarrassment, but better late than never I suppose.

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-iowa-presidential-democratic-primary


The trend continues.

If you select less smoothing, which moves as if latest information is more valuable than older you get the following (Can't paste the chart from my cell):

Clinton - 52.4%
Sanders - 20%

Admittedly less smoothing makes the chart more volatile, but it does show how much numbers can vary from one day to the next.

That's a great reason to support Hillary in and of itself.

there is no way to know whether her lead over Bernie there holds steady, is increasing or is on the decline.

Their last poll was almost exactly a year ago, and had her at 66, w/Biden at 8 and O'Malley at 2. I guess 24% were undecided.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/ia/iowa_democratic_presidential_caucus-3195.html

So now undecided is down to 10%, and she's lost 6 points to Biden, OMalley and and Webb. That leaves 6 points and 14 undecideds going to Bernie.

said the Hillary folks....

Clinton has a dominatrix lead?
After all, her numbers are falling, and Bernie's are rising.
Give it a few months, it's only August, and Primaries are not for at least five months. Plenty of time to catch up and pass!

Please do not allow posters to call Secretary Clinton a"dominatrix" or any other names that have sexual connotations. This is deplorable.

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attention.

Because I thought that dominatrix was the feminine form of the word dominant.
Oh well, so much for my understanding of foreign based English words.

He may be ahead at the moment but that will change when people see he has stagnated.

He can take Vermont on Super Tuesday, and if he's still campaigning in June he can win DC.

I doubt he will still be in the race in June. I don't see how he wins DC though, regardless.

DC is a different animal from most primaries because for all practical purposes it's the general election for city officers.

And half the candidates opted out of it in 2004. Not sure if HRC would run in it, but I think she'd win if she did. Jmo.

I've never really understood that; it's just kind of a DC Democratic straw poll

That will give her a nice boost into NH which might be enough to put out the Bern.