Yet there is an even bigger takeaway here: The Clinton campaign is acknowledging that it's in the race for the long haul. Even under a best-case scenario for Clinton - winning the delegates proportionally by 60 percent to 40 percent - that means there won't be a true winner until April or May.
Friday, January 22, 2016
Clinton Campaign: Sanders Isn't Like Obama in 2008
Despite the increasingly competitive races in Iowa and New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton's campaign officials are confident in their path to winning the Democratic nomination for one big reason.
Their competition is Bernie Sanders, not Barack Obama.
Clinton campaign officials tell NBC News that two key factors propelled Obama to victory over Sanders in 2008: 1) Obama's ability to galvanize the African-American vote after winning the Iowa caucuses; and 2) Obama's domination of the caucus contests.
But the Clinton campaign - while acknowledging the possibility they could lose Iowa - argues that Sanders will be unable to capitalize on either factor that benefited Obama.
When it comes to the African-American vote, the Clinton camp insists that it enjoys the early advantage. Indeed, in the national Jan. 2016 NBC/WSJ poll, Clinton's fav/unfav score among African Americans was 75 percent favorable, 11 percent unfavorable, versus Sanders' 48 percent-to-13 percent score.
And in a ballot test among non-white voters, the NBC/WSJ poll showed Clinton leading Sanders by 42 points among non-white Democratic primary voters, 69 percent to 27 percent. (Clinton's lead among white Democrats was smaller, 53 percent to 38 percent.)
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