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Bad poll day?
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Hillary is cratering in Democratic presidential primary polling in New Hampshire and Iowa.

Per a YouGov/CBS poll, Independent Senator Bernie Sanders has leaped to a 51% to 30% lead over former Secretary of State Clinton in New Hampshire and a 43% to 33% lead in Iowa.

While still early in the presidential primary season, Hillary Clinton’s recent drop in the polls cannot help but remind longtime presidential campaign observers of the 1960 presidential race.

I am not a snook
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In this race, a sweaty and shifty looking under the klieg lights Richard Nixon lost public support given his physical image even though if one listened to only the audio of his televised debate opposite John Kennedy, one would have scored the performance at least a draw for Nixon.

Instead, Kennedy made up ground in the final weeks of that race and his father Joe is felt by at least some to have bought Cook County, or at least Chicago Mayor Richard Daley the First.

Additionally, the Wall Street Journal’s inside sources are reporting all manner of finger pointing and sniping among the Clinton campaign team and its financial supporters.

Young voters propping up Bernie
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While the reasons are numerous, at the end of the day they all revert back to questions about the Clinton’s trustworthiness and which were ultimately self-inflicted.

And in a related and so far inexplicable development, while Clinton’s support among women has suffered perhaps the biggest drop, female support for GOP candidate and all but indisputable antediluvian neanderthal on women’s issues Donald Trump is seeing solid upswings in support among females.

Bad boy bad hair day?

Apparently, the bad boy thing also works when it comes to the ballot box as well as it does to the dating scene.

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