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Hillary clinton has been in this state for six or eight months now. they hired the right people from the obama and clinton campaigns. they have both sets of people working it. they don't have yet the indoersment. as you remember the culinary union is about 56% hispanic. it is not yet indoersed. most people endorsed obama and clinton ended up winning the state. obama understood the caucus system and got more delegates. they learned now the caucuses are important, all the comments about how they don't like caucuses are gone. they know how to organize now. it will take a miracle for sanders to wi...

I think what trump has done successfully i would say is take that anger, take that anxiety about terrorism and say to a lot of people in this country, look, the reason for our problems is because of mexicans, or he says about the muslims, they're all terrorists. we got to keep them out of this country. that's what we have to deal with to make america great. meanwhile interesting enough, john, this is a guy who does not want to raise the minimum wage. he has said he thinks wages in america are too high. >> let's go back to trump. he bashed the state republican party last night as questions moun...

>> let's talk about this fact that martin o'malley taking certainly a hit or swing at hillary clinton regarding this e-mail and what was perceived as a diss of the iowa caucuses and perhaps i guess trying to expose her in some way here, though obviously she's doing very well in the polling. >> some context here. among the thousands of e-mails that were released earlier this week went from hillary clinton to her friend sidney blumenthal when she talked about mitt romney and newt gingrich, mentioned the caucus system had people who were often brought to the extremes. why this is interesting is t...

Rick santorum won the iowa caucus in 2012. why do we care so much about iowa? >> well, i mean, iowa is a great state. republicans, above all, appreciate tradition. it's representative state in the general election. the problem is, the caucus system, taking 1/3 of the republicans, which is 1/3 of the state. it can have these unrepresentative results. the problem is, perceptions of iowa and the caucus distort candidates strategy. even the way they ignore general election electability or their true beliefs to pander to what would otherwise be a fringe cohort. we spend nine months walking up to it...

If you're running for president. republican and democratic candidate for president traveled to iowa this weekend for annual iowa state fair and not to rise the ferris wheel, they are there to work. checking out their standing in the totally unscientific cast your kernel poll giving their stump speech atop a traditional "des moines register" soap box wearing aprons and grilling up pork burgers for the sweaty and hungry fair goers and, of course, checking out the 600 pound cow sculpture made entirely of butter. iowa is the first state in the nation to vote in the presidential primaries and they ...