The Battle For The Third Ticket Out Of Iowa

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) all need a strong performance in this state’s first-in-the-nation caucuses to keep their hopes of winning the Democratic presidential primary alive.

A presidential campaign axiom holds that there are only three tickets out of Iowa. While former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) have the loyal bases and national polling leads to remain in contention regardless of the outcome in the first state to vote, the fortunes of Warren, Buttigieg and Klobuchar rest heavily on how they perform here.

The three are also facing different challenges: Warren is aiming to relieve voters’ anxiety about whether she can actually defeat Trump, Buttigieg is hoping to persuade Iowans that an outsider is what they need and Klobuchar must convince voters she has enough momentum to actually win.

While Warren, Buttigieg and Klobuchar all need to outperform expectations, it’s unlikely all three will be able to: They’re all competing for the same type of high-information, college-educated voters who have bounced from candidate to candidate over the course of the now year-old primary race.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-battle-for-the-third-ticket-out-of-iowa_n_5e3395a9c5b6f2623326ce1d

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1. My belief.

Warren finishes second after taking away a huge amount of Bernie's support among college students and young women who are not in college. Biden ride support among older voter to a first place. Sanders finishes fourth, stripped of his college and young working female support by Warren.

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2. That would be fantastic.

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3. I really believe the mock caucuses at two colleges were saying something.

I know that when I was that young, once I indicated that I would do something, my decision didn't change easily.

[HarlanPepper]

4. Yeah i thought that was striking too

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