Month: February 2016

Trump, Cruz and Rubio were managing the expectations game going into tonight's caucuses. We also have tells from the candidates themselves about how the campaign is going. Ed Kilgore says the Clinton campaign reeks of confidence. Margaret Hartmann on the Bernie Sanders campaign:

Over the weekend, Sanders began running a new ad in Iowa that hints Clinton is too influenced by Wall Street. And after famously declaring, "The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails," at October's debate, he took a different stance when Jake Tapper raised the issue on CNN's State of the Union. "I think this is a very serious issue," Sanders said. "I think there is a legal process right now taking place." In some ways Clinton and Sanders have switched tactics in the final days before voting in Iowa. As New York's Ed Kilgore reported, a confident Clinton tried to fire up supporters by discussing a raft of progressive policy proposals on Sunday in Des Moines. Meanwhile, the final Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics poll showed Clinton three points ahead of Sanders in Iowa, and the Washington Post reports that a "visibly agitated" Sanders complained about Clinton hitting him on gun control and reproductive rights. "Those are inaccuracies, and we can do better than that," he said. "Secretary Clinton and I have differences of opinion. Let’s debate those differences of opinion, but let’s not go around distorting a record that I am very proud of."

That tells of a campaign that is behind.

It is also, recyled Iowa post day...

...if aliens descended in their spacecraft and asked us why we let 200,000 morons in the middle of fucking nowhere have veto power over who runs for President of the most important country in the world our only possible answer would be, “Because we are dummies.”

It is all still true.