With just three weeks to go before the Iowa caucus, Bernie Sanders is now in a statistical dead heat with Hillary Clinton.
According to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, he trails her by just 3 points in Iowa, well within the margin of error.
In other words, it’s a tie.
A dead heat.
This is really, really, really big news.
Sanders is already beating Clinton in New Hampshire, and if he can pull-off a two-state sweep of the early primaries, that would completely change the dynamic of the race.
And I mean completely.
At this point, national polls don’t really matter; what matters is momentum, and if Bernie can win Iowa and New Hampshire, he would suck up pretty much all of the momentum.
Now, considering the fact that
Bernie Sanders does better than Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical matchup with Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, you’d think that the establishment Democrats would be thrilled with these developments.
You’d think that the people who talk so much about “electability” and how important it is would be overjoyed that Bernie Sanders, a popular and electable candidate, is moving towards the Democratic nomination.
Apparently not.
Instead of celebrating the rise of a new star, establishment Democrats are freaking out about the possibility of Bernie Sanders winning both Iowa and New Hampshire.
Case in point: former Tennessee congressman Harold Ford, Jr.,
who on MSNBC this morning agreed with Joe Scarborough that establishment Dems could recruit John Kerry or Joe Biden to run if Bernie sweeps both early primary states.
Pretty weird, right?
Here Bernie Sanders is inspiring millions of young people to get involved in politics, and establishment Democrats think it might be a good idea to draft two guys who’ve already lost presidential races.
Go figure.
But here’s the thing: establishment Democrats aren’t stupid -- they should be scared of Bernie Sanders.
And that’s because he represents a direct threat to the centrists who have ruled the Democratic Party for the past few decades.
