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The 2016 winners and losers of August
This past weekend's new Des Moines
Register/Bloomberg poll of Iowa perfectly captures the presidential
candidates who won August and the summer -- and those who didn't. The
winners on the Republican side: Donald Trump (who's in first place in that Iowa poll at 23%) and Ben Carson (second at 18%). The winner on the Democratic side:
Bernie Sanders, who has surged 14 points since May and now trails
Hillary Clinton by just seven points in Iowa. The loser of August on the
Democratic side? It's Clinton, of course, whose lead in the Hawkeye
State has dropped from 41 points to just seven (!!!) in the span of
three months. The losers of August on the GOP side: Try Scott Walker
(who is now tied for third with Ted Cruz in Iowa -- the state where he
was seen as the clear frontrunner), Jeb Bush (who's tied for fifth), and
Marco Rubio (ditto). (Our friend Amy Walter of the Cook Political
Report has a similar list of winners and losers;
great minds think alike.) What do Trump, Carson, and Sanders all have
in common? They're political outsiders who are FAR from your
business-as-usual politicians. Indeed, the Des Moines Register/Bloomberg poll finds 62% of GOP Iowa caucus-goers and 60% of Dem caucus-goers saying they're dissatisfied with politicians in general.
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