US President Election - Bernie Sanders giving Hillary Clinton a run for her money

#HillaryClinton #BernieSanders #WhiteHouse #IowaCaucus Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are both Democrat hopefuls for the race to the White House but, Hillary Clinton is locked in a dead heat with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in the Iowa presidential nominating contest. While Hillary Clinton is a former Secretary of State and First Lady her lead is wafer-thin - it is 49.9% over 49.5% for her opponent Bernie Sanders who is a US Senator from Vermont - this result is based on 99% of precincts reporting.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 2 February 2016.

Of course, her campaign has issued a statement saying that she had won the Democratic Iowa caucus. But, the outcome in three precincts in the state - Davenport, Des Moines and Ames - was decided by a coin flip.
On the present situation, Mr Sanders feels that it would be a tight contest had it has given his campaign a "kick-start" - it showed that "this is a campaign that can win".
There is a third Democrat candidate in the fray - he is Martin O'Malley and he has suspended his campaign after trailing badly - he could manage to get just 0.6% of Iowa's votes.
The Hillary for America campaign was depending on its vaunted get-out-the-vote operation to deliver a clear victory and avoid a stinging rerun of her 2008 defeat to now-President Barack Obama. For Hillary Clinton, she has been dogged by an inquiry into her emails while she was the top US diplomat - she put up a brave face after the inconclusive result.
As for Bernie Sanders who is a self-described democratic socialist, he summed up the situation as 'what Iowa has begun tonight is a political revolution.' He talked about creating an economy that works for working families, not just the billionaire class.
Hillary Clinton is the party establishment favorite but Bernie Sanders has electrified youthful crowds with his impassioned rallying cry to reform an economy he says is rigged in favor of the super-rich.


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