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Take It Easy? Or Take It To The Limit? For Hillary, It All Comes Down To Iowa
The New York Times writes
that Hillary Clinton and her campaign are "preparing for a primary
fight that could stretch into late April or early May and require a
sprawling field operation in states and territories from Pennsylvania to
Guam." That's one to way look at it. Here's another way: If she wins
Iowa, Clinton will be set up to separate herself from Bernie Sanders in
South Carolina and the March 1 primaries -- after which her campaign can
start to focus on the general election. But if she loses Iowa, then,
yes, a highly competitive Democratic race will extend into April and
May. And that's not all -- panicky Democrats will become even more
nervous, Joe Biden's phone will ring, Michael Bloomberg's phone will
ring, too. Make no mistake, Bernie Sanders isn't going away. But if you
assume, one way or another, that Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic
nomination, Iowa will determine whether she gets it the easy way or the
hard way. So on the Democratic side, no contest will be more impactful
than the Iowa caucuses, which are now less than two weeks away.
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Source: NBC News
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