The 1970s three republicansand five democrats who won here have gone on to win their respective partys nomination. For the republicans, polls show donald trump has a slight lead, with ted cruz in second. However, after a strong showing in the latest debate, marco rubio may have made some in roads with iowa voters. david yepsen Paul Simon Institute polls are a lousy predictor of what happens on caucus night. Lots of margin of error, lots of softness in the polling rubios doing what hes gotta do, getting around, getting some buzz going. On the democratic side, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are in a virtual dead heat. The latest nbcwall street journal poll puts clinton just three points ahead of sanders among iowa voters. And Martin Omalley far behind. Thats notable, considering the difference in supporters and views between the candidates. john avlon the daily beast so these are all fault with such divergent views between two folks, thats different, thats unique and thats fascinatin
And im Monica Jackson welcome to fox5 news this morning. First Cassandra Jones joins us with a quick look at the fox 5 weather 247 forecast. Good morning im Cassandra Jones with fox5. It will be a slick morning commute with strong winds much colder temperatures today along with additional mountain snow. We continue under a wind advisory until 6 pm tonight for gusts 4555 mph possible. The rain should taper off throughout the late morning early afternoon with a high of just 49 degrees. Daytime highs are forecast to stay in the 40s through tuesday overnight temperatures will be near freezing. By wednesday the daytime temps return to the lower 50s as a ridge builds in for the rest of the week putting us back in the upper 50s to low 60s friday through the weekend. Here is a look at your drive here are the accidents to watch out and alternate routes you can use listed on our maps here are the construciton areas to look out for and alternate routes listed on our maps here are your photos for
Live within the constitutional con strastraints of buckley and thats whats led to some of this sort of starts and fits of reform. The other thing i think buckley has changed, or what would be different if there hadnt been buckley, is that probably Political Parties would be much stronger and much more in control of their candidates, much more influential over their candidates and so that would probably be a big difference as well. Yeah, i was going to ask you about what do you think the impact would have been on parties . Can you give us a reason why do you think the parties would be stronger if, under that scenario . Well, the parties are a source of resources, of brand name, and so if candidates are less free to raise their own resources, make their own brand, then they have to rely on the parties more. And, therefore, youre going to see more Party Discipline and you see, you know, more powerful parties in the u. S. Like you see in european countries. There wouldnt be a ted cruz. He
Iowans will start to caucus exactly three hours from now. The storm. Before the blizzard dry for now but rain and snow central iowa late tonight. The heaviest snow looks to fall in the metro during the morning commute. Northwest iowa will see heavy snow and strong winds throughout the day. The metro will see snow in the range of 3 to 6 and higher amounts of 8 will occur in northern iowa. A blizzard warning and winter storm warning will be in effect through the day on tuesday. For two years dozens of our state asking for your vote. Tonight all of us will be watching Capital Square in Downtown Des Moines to find out if you gave it to them. Political director dave price joins us live from caucus central at Capital Square. Begin a long night of caucus coverage here on channel 13 and whotvdotcom. 3543 i will apologize to no 3543 i will apologize to no one for using every tool we can to get poepole to come out and caucus for us. Listen, our now to the democratic side of just a he may be the
From the first gop debate with donald trump versus the rest of the party. Check out this brand new cnn orc pol poll out this morning showing trump in first place among republicans with 18 support, jeb bush following with 15 . Well so much for the predictions made here on this program and everywhere else last weekend that trumps kban would implode after he insulted john mccain. It seems like hes doing better than ever. The new poll also shows trump is the gops most wanted the candidate voters most want to see at the debate. He is guaranteed a spot on the stage. But what about the rest of the pack . Fox news is holding the debate on august 6th and fogs is only going to invite the top ten candidates top ten in the polls. That means six will not make the cut. Its decision thats angered a lot of people including some of the candidates. They say fox is basically hoeing its own primary whittling down the field of candidates. Fox says it has no choice. Cnn is doing similar for its debate in se