DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Locked in what's become a neck-and-neck primary battle, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders made frantic, last-minute appeals to Iowa voters in the final hours before Monday night's caucuses.
Nine months after launching their campaigns, Clinton and Sanders face Iowa voters in equally precarious positions. Long the front-runner, Clinton now faces the possibility of dual losses in Iowa and in New Hampshire, the nation's first primary, where she trails the Vermont senator. Two straight defeats could set off alarms within the party and question her ability to defeat Republicans.
A businessman/reality television star and a doctor each lacking any government leadership experience, and two first-term senators who come election day will both be only 45-years-old. About one month before voting starts in Iowa and New Hampshire, these are your front-runners for the Republican presidential nomination. Together, these four — Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio —are garnering nearly 75 percent support in the most recent RealClearPolitics average of polls.
That so many Republicans are supporting candidates with no demonstrated history of government leadership for the most important executive position in the world is unfathomable. After all, one of the Right's principal warnings in 2008 about then-candidate Obama was his lack of any demonstrated leadership experience. Hillary Clinton warned of Obama's lack of experience in the primaries.
