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Sanders backers feel momentum in Iowa: 'It feels like he can actually win'
The Washington Times ^ | Saturday, February 1, 2020 | Seth McLaughlin

Posted on 02/01/2020 12:56:17 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

DES MOINES, Iowa — Julia Caldwell played with the broken call box outside a gated two-story apartment complex and then joked about her next move.

“If I break-and-enter you are going to think I am a crazy Bernie person,” she said with a laugh.

The 29-year-old was among a slew of die-hard volunteers from across the country that scattered out across Iowa’s capital city on a warmer-than-typical day here to knock on doors as part of Sen. Bernard Sanders‘ final get out the vote efforts before the iconic caucuses.

“It feels like he can actually win - it is insane,” Ms. Caldwell, who made the trip from New York with her boyfriend, said. “That is what I think makes it different from last time when it seemed more far-fetched.”

Indeed, there is a sense here in Iowa that Mr. Sanders could be on the verge of wrapping up some unfinished business from 2016 when he fell a hair shy of defeating Hillary Clinton in the caucuses.

The stakes are high in Iowa for the entire field of 2020 Democratic presidential contenders when voters turn out at their local precincts on Monday to cast their support behind their favorite candidates and try to convince their neighbors to join them.

The results will set the tone for the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary and could signal the beginning of the end for candidates that fail to meet expectations.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: 2020; berniesanders; iowacaucus; sanders
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Feel the Crazy Bern!
1 posted on 02/01/2020 12:56:17 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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he should have last time.

clinton going to try to steal it from him again


2 posted on 02/01/2020 12:58:51 PM PST by RummyChick
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3 posted on 02/01/2020 1:00:15 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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What weird is that this Iowa Caucus just snuck up on us like this. Usually this event starts dominating the news cycle right after New Year's Day. Endless live shots of candidates in flannel shirts jawboning with farmers in coffee shops and bars and whatnot.

But none of that fanfare this year. It's been nothing but Trump, Trump, Trump.

4 posted on 02/01/2020 1:01:05 PM PST by SamAdams76
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DREAM ON BERNIE OH I MEAN COMMIE ....not appening


5 posted on 02/01/2020 1:03:29 PM PST by angelcindy ("If you follow the crowd...you get no further ,than the crowd")
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I’m voting for Bolshie Bernie in the Texas primary


6 posted on 02/01/2020 1:03:33 PM PST by MuttTheHoople
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Every time Hillary opens her mouth a new Trump voter is created. Keep on bringing down Bernie Cankles.


7 posted on 02/01/2020 1:03:34 PM PST by pnut22
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Time to haul out the Soviet Democrat national anthem again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXr1mkYWeCU


8 posted on 02/01/2020 1:05:36 PM PST by kaehurowing
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The wrath of AOC has not been felt yet.


9 posted on 02/01/2020 1:06:13 PM PST by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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It's been nothing but Trump, Trump, Trump.

That's the downside to the media trying to force impeachment to the top of the news cycle every chance they get. I'm kind of pulling for Biden in Iowa so I can remind my Dem friends that Biden got to campaign while Sanders, Warren, and Klobuchar were stuck watching the antics in the Senate, for which they can thank Nanzi Pelosi, but hey, at least she got her souvenir pens...

10 posted on 02/01/2020 1:07:00 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Anything we Republicans can do to help Democrats ‘Feel The Bern’, we should do it.


11 posted on 02/01/2020 1:12:03 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Ban Carbon Dioxide! It's twice as bad as Carbon Monoxide!!!)
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...”it is insane”.

...you got that right.


12 posted on 02/01/2020 1:12:04 PM PST by albie
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Do it Bern man. Do it.


13 posted on 02/01/2020 1:16:15 PM PST by Drango (1776 = 2020)
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To: wastedyears

Not a good image.


14 posted on 02/01/2020 1:19:09 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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15 posted on 02/01/2020 1:21:15 PM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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16 posted on 02/01/2020 1:22:34 PM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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They actually indigestion or an impending bowel movement! That is all!!


17 posted on 02/01/2020 1:23:23 PM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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The collectivists still want collectivism. Just not this fast through this Bernie collectivist. They want to slip the knife in slowly, so we all enjoy it.


18 posted on 02/01/2020 1:23:23 PM PST by lurk
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“If I break-and-enter you are going to think I am a crazy Bernie person,” she said with a laugh.

Confirmed for crazy.


19 posted on 02/01/2020 1:24:22 PM PST by cdcdawg (Cornpop was a bad dude!)
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Reminds me of Marshall Applewhite. ..


20 posted on 02/01/2020 1:28:02 PM PST by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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