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Joe Biden Faces Tough Road to White House, Starting With Iowa

Joe Biden’s potential bid for the Democratic presidential nomination faces a fundamental question: Does he have a viable path through a treacherous electoral map?

Another day, another batch of mostly redundant and anonymously sourced stories about whether Vice President Joe Biden will run for president. Some of those stories, however, are getting ridiculous. So FiveThirtyEight’s politics writers met in Slack to pick over the latest Biden coverage, our own assumptions and the state of the 2016 Democratic primary.

A summer of Clinton stumbles gives way to an uncertain fall for Democrats

The Democratic Party, whose presidential race has been mostly overshadowed by Donald Trump and the Republicans, heads into the fall with its nomination contest far less certain than it once appeared and braced for a series of events that will have a significant effect on Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign.

6 thoughts about the state of the Democratic race

Democrats flocked to Minnesota this past weekend for the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting — a largely formulaic event notable largely for the kibitzing and complaining about the presidential candidacy of Hillary Rodham Clinton and the speculation about the possible candidacy of Joe Biden.

Iowa Poll: Clinton leads, but Sanders draws near

Liberal revolutionary Bernie Sanders, riding an updraft of insurgent passion in Iowa, has closed to within 7 points of Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential race.

Four Democratic presidential candidates are set to address hundreds of party officials here on Friday, but the politician getting much of the buzz is one who’s staying far, far away.

Democratic insiders: Joe Biden won’t run

The vast majority of Democratic insiders from the early states don’t believe Joe Biden will run for president, despite evidence that he is seriously considering a 2016 bid.