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Clinton Leads in Iowa

Although she is not officially campaigning there, Hillary Clinton will speak to thousands of Democratic activists today at the final Tom Harkin steak fry. She's clearly taking no chances as she lost the Iowa caucuses to Barack Obama in 2008. An ORC poll of the 2016 Iowa caucuses released Friday puts Clinton at 53% with Vice President Joe Biden second at 15%, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) at 7%, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) 5%. While 53% isn't exactly unanimous, if Clinton runs, she will be tough to beat since Biden would be 74 on inauguration day 2017, Warren has said repeatedly that she is not running, and Sanders isn't even a Democrat.

On the Republican side, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee leads at 21% and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is at 12%. No other candidate is in double digits. The Republican numbers should be taken with a barrel (or maybe, a metric ton) of salt. While Huckabee isn't a favorite son, he is kind of a favorite neighbor since Arkansas is not too far away from Iowa. Same goes for Ryan since Iowa and Wisconsin actually share a border. Candidates from distant places like Texas and Florida apparently haven't quite registered yet.
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