Hillary’s scary night

last updated 8 January 2015

What happened

Barack Obama pulled ahead of Hillary Clinton in Iowa polls on the eve of the state’s first-in-the-nation caucuses. In a Des Moines Register poll, Obama was the choice of 32 percent of likely Democratic caucus-goers. Clinton garnered 25 percent, and John Edwards 24 percent. (MarketWatch)

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If things go badly for Clinton on Thursday, said Roger Simon in The Politico, she may end up wishing she had taken early advice from a top staffer to skip Iowa. The state—whose liberal Democrats have been slow to forgive Clinton for voting for the Iraq war—was always going to be a tough audience, and a poor finish there will definitely get the former first lady’s campaign “off to a bad start.”

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