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Turnout is key factor in Monday’s leadoff Iowa caucuses
The Associated Press WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democratic and Republican presidential candidates scrambled across Iowa on Sunday to close the deal with the first voters to have a say in the 2016 race for the White House, urging their supporters to take part in Monday’s caucuses in which outsiders Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are pinning their hopes on a large turnout. The caucuses will provide a big test of whether the large enthusiastic crowds turning out at rallies for Trump and Sanders will turn into actual votes when Iowans gather on a wintry night for meetings at schools, libraries and
even private homes in the first in a series of state-bystate nominating contests. Iowa offers only a small contingent of the delegates who will determine the nominees at each party’s national nominating convention in July. But those candidates exceeding expectations will gain a burst of momentum heading into New Hampshire with its Feb. 9 primary and other early voting states. The caucus results should also help winnow the crowded Republican field of nearly a dozen candidates. A snowfall forecast to start Monday night appeared more likely to hinder the presidential contenders in their rush out of Iowa —
and on to New Hampshire — than the voters. In the last major preference poll before the caucuses, Trump, the billionaire real estate mogul, had the support of 28 percent of likely caucus-goers, with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at 23 percent and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio at 15 percent. The Iowa Poll, published by The Des Moines Register and Bloomberg, also found Hillary Clinton with 45 percent support to Sanders’ 42 percent. The poll of 602 likely Republican caucus-goers and 602 likely Democratic caucus-goers was taken Tuesday to Friday and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. Cruz, who describes himself
Kelsey Johnson of Greensburg, Ind., cheers as Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a campaign rally at Grand View University, on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016, in Des Moines, Iowa. Associated Press
as a “consistent conservative,” is relying on a strong get-out-the-vote operation to overtake Trump, who is hoping his star power will
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