Hillary Clinton has the biggest glass jaw in politics

That Bernie Sanders is anywhere close to winning the nomination is almost unbelievable

Can Hillary Clinton's campaign stand up to Bernie Sander's rising poll numbers?
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Over the past couple weeks, Hillary Clinton's massive national polling lead over her primary opponent Bernie Sanders has plummeted. In Iowa and New Hampshire, the first primary states, she's running a neck-and-neck race in the former and is significantly behind in the latter.

Though he is surely still a long shot, that Sanders has even gotten within striking distance of the nomination is literally astonishing. I no longer trust my own judgments as to what is politically likely (or anyone else's for that matter), but I think it's fair to say such an outcome was at least as improbable as Donald Trump's thus-far overwhelming dominance in the Republican primary.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.