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Race for party nominations gets tighter

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Channel: LOCAL 12 · 2015 · News & Politics

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UNDATED (CNN) -- The race for the presidential nominations gets tighter. The latest poll shows the frontrunners' leads in Iowa getting smaller and smaller as we get closer to the caucuses. The clear frontrunners for the Republican and Democratic nominations may not be as clear as they once were. Democratic candidate and senator, Bernie Sanders, continues to rise in the polls, as he focuses his attention on income inequality, climate change, and higher education. "Those are the issues I have been talking about. Those are the issues that have generated enormous enthusiasm from one end of this country to the other." Sanders has cut Hillary Clinton's lead in Iowa to just seven points, according a Bloomberg/Des Moines Register poll of likely Democratic voters in the first-in-the-nation caucus state. It may be less about Clinton losing ground than it is about Sanders gaining it. The poll suggests 96 percent of his supporters are motivated by his candidacy -- and not a desire to oppose hers. Meanwhile, Ben Carson is closing the gap against Donald Trump. His post-debate surge has been especially strong in Iowa, where this weekend's poll shows him now trailing Trump by five percentage points. The poll's margin of error is four-point-nine.

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