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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Polls: A reminder from 2007/08 [View all]crazytown
(7,277 posts)8. Iowa is critically dependent on the ground game.
HRC's campaign didn't see it coming. This year, the consensus is that Elizabeth is ahead at this stage, with the other campaigns attempting to catch up. It's was a pattern repeated time and again in 2008 - Obama's people had got there first, and Warren is attempting to replicate this time around. In April she said, she had visited all 50 States (and Puerto Rico).
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And I didn't see a 76-YO HRC making one verbal misstep after another in 2007
BeyondGeography
Aug 2019
#7
Unless you think Harris or Booker can win in Iowa and that victory will suddenly
highplainsdem
Aug 2019
#11
I agree that the future remains to be written, and we can still see an upset, maybe a series of
highplainsdem
Aug 2019
#21
And as I said, that phenomenon was not predicted (at all) by the polls up to Iowa
crazytown
Aug 2019
#20
As your graph shows - it was essentially a two-person race between Hillary and Obama nationally.
Drunken Irishman
Aug 2019
#32
Well the fact that it's only 3/5 (though 3/3 during the last three primaries) demonstrates that
LincolnRossiter
Aug 2019
#39