Hillary's internal polling numbers must be truly wretched...

[Jarqui]

6. I haven't seen anything quite like it

They are anxious but they have to be.

The tables have turned some. She may be ahead by a bit but Bernie's folks are showing up for the campaign events and getting fired up - far more than hers. He has 15,000 volunteers for a vote of maybe 200,000. I think Clinton has 4,000.

If she doesn't stop Bernie here, she may have to wait until South Carolina before she gets her first victory. He's in good shape in New Hampshire and a win in Iowa would tighten Nevada that's already getting close.

She needs to win Iowa more than Bernie does. Because her loss will give his campaign a boost and potentially deliver nearly a full month of media coverage where he's leading the primary. The media won't be able to bury him him any more. Clinton will have thrown everything at him and been unable to stop him.

If he loses, he came from 55 pts down to make it close against the Clinton machine. And the media knows he did that taking nasty unfair/false hit jobs from the NYT and WaPo, very little mainstream media coverage, a corrupt DNC, etc.

I used to feel Bernie had to have this. Now I feel it's considerably more important for her campaign than his.