Race for the White House

Anti-Wall Street Sentiment Breaks by Party Line in Iowa Poll

Can Clinton or Sanders Surge Before Iowa Caucuses?

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There's a reason Democratic presidential front-runners Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders continually bash the financial industry: “Anti-Wall Street” and “socialist” are each chosen by more than 40 percent of those planning to attend their party's Iowa caucuses as words or phrases that describe them well.

Just 16 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers say “anti-Wall Street” applies to their view of themselves (and only 4 percent “socialist”), the latest Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll shows.