2016 Democrat Primaries: Hillary Clinton’s Lead Over Socialist Bernie Sanders Nearly Gone in Iowa and New Hampshire

HOW IN THE HELL IS THIS POSSIBLE, HILLARY DOES REALIZE THAT SANDERS IS IN THE RACE NOT TO WIN, RIGHT?

Democrat front runner and presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton has seen her poll numbers crater as she feels the Bern. With just a few weeks to go before the primary voting season begins in Iowa and New Hampshire, self proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders has closed the gap and taken the lead in some polls. Is it actually possible that Sanders could beat Hillary in the first caucus and primary states of the Democrat primary? At one point Hillary was up by more than 30 points, now she finds herself in a nail biter. Honestly, how is this possible? Hillary was all but given the Democrat party nomination as no viable candidate challenged her. Except for a Socialist from Vermont. Two questions come to mind, what the hell has happened to the Democrat party and just how bad a candidate is Hillary Clinton? Didn’t we see this same thing happen when a complete unknown named Barack Obama handed her a sever defeat in 2008? Feel the Bern as Bernie Sanders opined at the Iowa Brown & Black Forum in Des Moines, Iowa Monday night …  “It could be that the inevitable candidate for the Democratic nomination may not be so inevitable today.”

The Democratic presidential race is tightening just weeks before the Iowa caucuses, renewing the sense among some Democrats that Bernie Sanders could sweep the first two voting states and challenge Hillary Clinton over the long haul.

New polling data released over the weekend shows close races in Iowa and New Hampshire, the first two states to vote.

After weeks in which it appeared that Clinton had pulled away in Iowa, an NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll found the Vermont senator within 3 points of the front-runner there.

“It’s been tight in Iowa the whole time, even if the polls didn’t always show it,” said Sam Roecker, a Democratic strategist in Iowa not affiliated with either candidate. “Both campaigns have strong ground operations and have been putting in the time here. It was always going to be close.”

Meanwhile, the same poll found Sanders maintaining a 4-point lead over the former secretary of State in New Hampshire. In both surveys, the candidates are close enough that the results are within the margin of error.

Clinton campaign aides say they always expected the polls to tighten and that the race would be competitive until the end.

“Yes, it’s a bit of a nail-biter,” one Clinton ally acknowledged. “But we always knew it was going to be tight and down to the wire. That’s not surprising.”

Hillary Clinton in serious poll trouble:

With just 21 days until the presidential primaries officially begin in Iowa, Hillary Clinton’s support among Democrats nationally has taken a serious tumble, falling eight points to 43%, according to the latest IBD/TIPP Poll. Support for her chief rival, Bernie Sanders, rose six points to 39%.

As a result, Clinton’s lead over Sanders, which had been 18 points, is now just four points.