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2016 Postmortem

Robbins

(5,066 posts) Tue Jan 26, 2016, 10:42 AM Jan 2016

Iowa poll-Clinton-47%(-2) Bernie 45%(+18)

http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2016/01/26/caucuspoll

even the pro-clinton pollsters have bernie gaining

GOP clown car-Cruz 25% Trump 18% Carson 13% Rubio 12 %

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Iowa poll-Clinton-47%(-2) Bernie 45%(+18) (Original Post) Robbins Jan 2016 OP

Plus 18% ?!? Tom Rinaldo Jan 2016 #1

I agree Robbins Jan 2016 #2

Cruz? Good lord that sucks yeoman6987 Jan 2016 #3

Don't worry: the polls predict a small landslide with Sanders versus Cruz. Betty Karlson Jan 2016 #4

Tom Rinaldo

(22,912 posts)

1. Plus 18% ?!?

Reply to Robbins (Original post)

Tue Jan 26, 2016, 10:46 AM

Jan 2016

No matter how you slice it, no matter how skewed the underlying methodology is or isn't, that is called MOMENTUM!

Robbins

(5,066 posts)

2. I agree

Reply to Tom Rinaldo (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 26, 2016, 10:55 AM

Jan 2016

no matter what poll you look at momentum is with bernie.

Republicans are kind of screwed as bernie surges.the only chance to beat trump In Iowa Is cruz and some establishment republicans
dislike him even more than Trump.

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)

3. Cruz? Good lord that sucks

Reply to Robbins (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 26, 2016, 11:17 AM

Jan 2016

I know we can beat him but I don't want him even near the presidency and nominee is too close for comfort.

Betty Karlson

(7,231 posts)

4. Don't worry: the polls predict a small landslide with Sanders versus Cruz.

Reply to yeoman6987 (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 26, 2016, 11:22 AM

Jan 2016

(The kind that will bring Georgia into play as a swing state.)

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