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No consensus candidate for Iowa Latinos

The 2016 field of presidential contenders still has work ahead if one candidate, Democrat or Republican, hopes to emerge as a premier choice of Latino voters in Iowa.

Hillary Clinton is still leading the Democratic presidential primary in three key swing states—Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania—but a new poll suggests she may have more to worry about than whether Vice President Joe Biden enters the race: Neurosurgeon Ben Carson could potentially pose a threat to the entire Democratic field.

Iowa and New Hampshire Democrats are expressing skepticism about a possible Joe Biden presidential run and presidency, giving Bernie Sanders a credible shot at being the Democratic party’s presidential nominee, and raising concerns about Hillary Clinton that have more to do with her personality than any scandal surrounding her e-mails.

Right now, the 2016 race is the Donald Trump and Ben Carson show, and everyone else is just playing a supporting role.

According to a new Mercyhurst poll released Monday, Trump and Carson lead among Pennsylvania voters, with the pair tied at 18 percent each and no other candidate in the field cracking double digits.

Do Bernie Sanders’s massive crowds actually matter? A Fix debate.

On Saturday in Boston, 20,000 people showed up to hear Bernie Sanders speak. It’s the latest huge crowd Sanders has drawn in his long-shot bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. That means something — or nothing — depending on which member of the Fix team you are talking to.

In rural America, a startling prospect: voters Obama lost look to Sanders

Shelley Brannon, 62, can sum up the Obama presidency with three words. Well, three words and an exclamation.

“He screwed us,” said Brannon, a coal miner from Wise County, Va., as he sat outside a rally for the United Mine Workers of America. “Man, he screwed us.”