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All right, ladies and gentlemen, it’s time once again for a little game of “What If?”<\/p>\n

The Iowa caucuses are coming up. They’ll be followed immediately by the New Hampshire primary.<\/p>\n

Forget about the Republicans for a moment. Let’s ponder the Democratic contest.<\/p>\n

What if<\/strong> Hillary Rodham Clinton gets thumped in Iowa? She’s leading in that state\u00a0— supposedly — but the margin is diminishing. Bernie Sanders might be within the statistical margin of error.<\/p>\n

If she loses Iowa, then what if<\/strong> she gets pummeled in New Hampshire? Polls in the Granite State show Sanders with a huge — and growing — lead.<\/p>\n

OK, then comes South Carolina. What if<\/strong> by some chance Clinton loses there, too? Momentum has a way of dictating how these things go. The e-mail controversy is beginning to swirl once again.<\/p>\n

Clinton once was seen as the probable next president. Now? Well, she’s less probable by a good bit than before.<\/p>\n

Are the Democrats going to nominate a “democratic socialist” who’ll turn 75 by the time of the next inaugural? Do they really want to fritter away a chance at keeping the White House in an election when the GOP is likely to nominate either a bombastic real estate mogul\/reality TV star or a junior U.S. senator from Texas who no one who works with him seems to respect, let alone like?<\/p>\n

Oh, yes. There’s another guy. The vice president of the United States, took himself out of the running. Joe Biden said he had “run out of time,” only to declare just a few days ago that he “regrets” not running, even though he said the decision was the “right one.”<\/p>\n

Regret making the right decision?<\/p>\n

Hmmm. Sounds to me as though\u00a0regret<\/em> might override right<\/em>, if the once-presumed frontrunner keeps stumbling.<\/p>\n

This election season has been full of craziness. Who’s the say there isn’t room for a little more of it?<\/p>\n

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All right, ladies and gentlemen, it’s time once again for a little game of “What If?” The Iowa caucuses are coming up. They’ll be followed immediately by the New Hampshire primary. Forget about the Republicans for a moment. Let’s ponder the Democratic contest. What if Hillary Rodham Clinton gets thumped in Iowa? She’s leading in … Continue reading What if . . . Clinton loses first two contests?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[597,1342,2139,2505,5880],"class_list":["post-12487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-democratic-primary","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-joe-biden","tag-political-momentum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12488,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12487\/revisions\/12488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}