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Despite having a lot in common with Bernie Sanders, Howard Dean has pledged his support to Hillary Clinton.

Dean, a former governor of Vermont, is from Sanders’ home state. In 2004, Dean was the progressive insurgent candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination like Sanders is today.

SEIU battles over Bernie

Driven by fears that the powerful SEIU labor union is close to announcing an endorsement of Hillary Clinton, a contingent of Bernie Sanders supporters within the union is petitioning the organization’s international executive board to hold off on endorsing a candidate.

Could Hillary lose Iowa and New Hampshire? You bet.

In politics, the unthinkable must be thought about.

Not all that long ago, it was unthinkable that Hillary Clinton could lose Iowa, the first of the 2016 presidential contests.

How Iowa’s premier pollster sees the 2016 race shaking out

The release of new Iowa poll numbers by the Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics is one of the few stop-what-you-are-doing-and-see-what-they-say moments left in politics. The woman behind the poll, which gets Iowa right every time, is Ann Selzer. After the new Register numbers came out Saturday night, I reached out to Ann to see if she might expand on a few questions I had about the poll.

As Crowds for Bernie Sanders Grow, the Biggest Impact Comes in Iowa

The first person Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont met when he climbed out of a Dodge Journey here on a recent Saturday morning was Caleb Humphrey. It was for good reason.

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.