Iowa may now be everything for Bernie Sanders
There may be no more important event on the calendar for Sanders than Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses. He is counting on a political revolution to sweep him into the White House. But with Hillary Rodham Clinton regaining strength over the past month in the fight for the Democratic nomination, there’s a growing sense that Iowa could instead be the beginning of the end if Sanders doesn’t pull off back-to-back victories here and in New Hampshire.
The Vermont senator is stronger in neighboring New Hampshire, but some analysts say that Clinton could absorb a loss there and quickly rebound, given a subsequent primary calendar that plays to her strengths — including a far greater appeal at this point among minority voters. The next two contests take place in Nevada and South Carolina, where Latinos and African Americans will be key to the outcome.
All of which makes Iowa — the site of the second Democratic debate on Saturday night — hugely important to Sanders’s insurgent bid.
“He has no chance if he doesn’t win Iowa,” said David Axelrod, the chief strategist in both of President Obama’s campaigns. “Even if he were to win New Hampshire, it could be written off as a home-state victory because he’s from across the border.”
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