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Showing Original Post only (View all)Did Hillary's EMAIL sink her in Iowa instead of the data breech as has been suggested? (now a poll) [View all]
I was asked to make this a poll.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/did-hillary-clinton-diss-iowa-caucuses-private-email-n472251
Did Hillary Clinton Diss the Iowa Caucuses in Private Email?
by MARK MURRAY
The latest State Department release of Hillary Clinton emails contained this message from Clinton to friend Sidney Blumenthal: "If Mittens [Mitt Romney] can't beat Grinch [Gingrich] in Florida, there will be pressure on state Republican parties to reopen or liberalize ballot access especially in the caucuses, which as we know are creatures of the parties' extremes."
Clinton's remark shouldn't be too surprising given that she lost caucuses contests - including Iowa's - to Barack Obama in 2008.
But if Clinton's caucuses-tilt-to-the-extremes comment sounds familiar, it's pretty much what helped sink Howard Dean before the 2004 Iowa caucuses - exclusive video that NBC News unearthed during that election cycle.
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Did Hillary's EMAIL sink her in Iowa instead of the data breech as has been suggested? (now a poll) [View all]
Omaha Steve
Jan 2016
OP
To suggest the data breech yielded anything that would change the course of the race is ridiculous.
highprincipleswork
Jan 2016
#1
Yes that was one stupid thread here at DU which is getting a lot of ridicule.
emulatorloo
Jan 2016
#5
It's more likely related to the biggest thing in her wordcloud: Untrustworthy. n/t
winter is coming
Jan 2016
#3
Spoken like it's a fact, and with great authority, signifying NOTHING.
DisgustipatedinCA
Jan 2016
#13
I think the good people of Iowa simply like Senator Sanders' message. It is pro-Sanders
Douglas Carpenter
Jan 2016
#21