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Hillary Clinton is out-hustling Bernie Sanders on the campaign trail
Bernie Sanders has spent the equivalent of three full weeks less than Hillary Clinton on the campaign and fundraising trail since late September, baffling progressive Democrats who are anxious to see a livelier presidential primary contest.
The Vermont senator has visited nine fewer states than Clinton, according to a POLITICO review of their travel logs covering the last three months. His schedule from Sept. 28 through Saturday night’s debate — 84 days in total — has included 34 days campaigning or fundraising outside of Washington or his home state, including 10 in New Hampshire and nine in Iowa. Clinton’s meanwhile, has been made up of 55 days outside of her New York home base, including an almost identical 10 days in both New Hampshire and Iowa.
By ditching the underdog’s playbook – which holds that if you’re not living in Des Moines, you should be living in Manchester – Sanders has left progressives across the earliest-voting states wondering where he's been.
“I’d noticed it, personally. There’s a barrage of Hillary events going on throughout the state at this point. She’s got a full-court press going on in Iowa at this point, and I haven’t really seen anything from Bernie at all,” said John Colombo, the chairman of the Franklin County, Iowa Democratic Party, on the heels of Sanders’ latest two-day stop in the state. “He’s not really staked his claim in the state for the lead-up to the caucuses. They’re coming up quick, so I’d hope that he would spend more time here if he intends to be a player here, and to win it. It’s customary that these people camp out here for months before."
The Vermont senator has visited nine fewer states than Clinton, according to a POLITICO review of their travel logs covering the last three months. His schedule from Sept. 28 through Saturday night’s debate — 84 days in total — has included 34 days campaigning or fundraising outside of Washington or his home state, including 10 in New Hampshire and nine in Iowa. Clinton’s meanwhile, has been made up of 55 days outside of her New York home base, including an almost identical 10 days in both New Hampshire and Iowa.
By ditching the underdog’s playbook – which holds that if you’re not living in Des Moines, you should be living in Manchester – Sanders has left progressives across the earliest-voting states wondering where he's been.
“I’d noticed it, personally. There’s a barrage of Hillary events going on throughout the state at this point. She’s got a full-court press going on in Iowa at this point, and I haven’t really seen anything from Bernie at all,” said John Colombo, the chairman of the Franklin County, Iowa Democratic Party, on the heels of Sanders’ latest two-day stop in the state. “He’s not really staked his claim in the state for the lead-up to the caucuses. They’re coming up quick, so I’d hope that he would spend more time here if he intends to be a player here, and to win it. It’s customary that these people camp out here for months before."
More at http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/debate-sanders-216788
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