Little Separates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in Tight Race in Iowa

[Nanjeanne]

From NY Times by Patrick Healey
Some excerpts.

The close results were deeply unnerving to Mrs. Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, as well as her advisers, some of whom had expressed growing confidence in recent days that they had recaptured political momentum after weeks when Mr. Sanders was drawing huge crowds and rising in the polls

Clinton advisers said late Monday night that Mr. and Mrs. Clinton were discussing bringing on additional staff members to strengthen her campaign operation now that a pitched battle may lie ahead against Mr. Sanders. The advisers said they did not know if a significant staff shakeup was at hand, but they said that the Clintons were disappointed with Monday night’s result and wanted to ensure that her organization, political messaging and communications strategy were in better shape for the contests to come.

Mr. Sanders’s strong performance in Iowa was a significant milestone in a campaign in which he began 40 percentage points behind Mrs. Clinton when they both declared their candidacies last spring. Many Democrats privately dismissed Mr. Sanders as a left-wing fringe candidate who had no real chance of defeating Mrs. Clinton anywhere other than his home state of Vermont, where his democratic socialist politics were not as exotic as many Democratic Party leaders found them.

But Mr. Sanders proved to be a rigorously disciplined candidate, delivering the same powerful message inveighing against establishment politics, Wall Street and the benefits enjoyed by the wealthy and the well-connected.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/us/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-democratic-iowa-caucus.html?_r=0

[Armstead]

1. Another reboot? Ready for Clinton v8.5?

[Nanjeanne]

2. Maybe her populist bs last night

Is the start of this. You know she's going to get us universal healthcare and also take that money from the rich.

[hedda_foil]

3. How come her supporters' heads aren't on permanent spin cycle?

Oh.

[WillyT]

4. K & R !!!

[Avalux]

5. Hillary will declare herself a democratic socialist.

The new strategy will be to blur the contrast between herself and Sanders by adopting his message. I don't know what else she can do at this point.