Can Hillary Clinton put out a Bernie Sanders brushfire in New Hampshire?
As Hillary Clinton grapples with slipping behind Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential race, she faces a New Hampshire challenge that has confounded many establishment favorites in the past: How do you put out an insurgent brushfire?
New Hampshire's live-free-or-die voters have always made underdog candidates feel welcome, giving a hearing to anti-establishment candidates from Eugene McCarthy to Pat Buchanan to Howard Dean. Every cycle seems to have a candidate who's able to mount a serious campaign here - in spite of financial and institutional hurdles - by tapping into grassroots passion.
For Democrats this cycle, that upstart candidate is Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who now leads Clinton in the state by more than 20 points according to the latest CBS News Battleground tracker poll.
On Saturday, Clinton will appear alongside Sanders in Manchester, at the New Hampshire Democratic Party Convention along with three other Democratic candidates, marking the unofficial start to the fall campaign sprint.
Clinton is now running from behind, a position which seemed to refocus her campaign after her loss in Iowa to Barack Obama in 2008. She was able come back and win New Hampshire, which boosted her candidacy for several more months. Her husband, Bill Clinton, famously dubbed himself the "comeback kid" after he came in second to Paul Tsongas in 1992 and was able to spin it into a victory that restarted his candidacy, too.
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