Iowa

U.S. Republican Ben Carson's 2016 presidential bid was thrown into chaos on the last day of 2015 when his campaign manager and some 20 other staff members quit amid infighting, dropping poll numbers and negative media coverage. 

American billionaire Donald Trump, the dominant  Republican no one can stop talking about heading into the 2016 presidential election, is leaving his rivals far behind in the polls.
 

Hillary Clinton and other Democratic presidential hopefuls used Donald Trump as a political bogeyman on Dec. 18 to highlight their own calls to defeat jihadist extremists without the bigotry and bluster brandished by their top Republican rival.

A steadfast performance by Jeb Bush during the Nov. 10 Republican debate has halted the sense of desperation around his U.S. presidential campaign and may buy him time to counter the rise of chief rival Marco Rubio. 

Ben Carson has placed first in a recent national Republican presidential primary poll, pushing Donald Trump into second place for the first time since June. 

Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, received 26 percent of the support in the New York Times/ CBS News poll released on Oct. 27 morning. 

Hillary Rodham Clinton turned to her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and pop singer Katy Perry to energize her campaign's faithful on Oct. 24 before a pivotal gathering of thousands of Democrats.

Vice President Joe Biden said on Oct. 21 he will not run for the White House in 2016, ending months of speculation that has stalked Hillary Clinton's campaign and threatened Democratic party unity.

I have come across this famous quote ?Where law ends, tyranny begins,? carved on a wall at Capitol Hill in Des Moines, Iowa a few weeks ago. (The version at the Capitol Hill was attributed to William Pitt, a famous British statesman but it?s known that the quote originally belongs to British philosopher John Locke.)

Jeremy "Jez" Corbyn and Bernie Sanders are very much alike, and so are their ambitions. Corbyn wants to lead Britain's Labour Party into the next election and become prime minister; Sanders wants to win the Democratic Party nomination and become the next president of the United States. And then each man plans to turn his country sharply to the left.

Billionaire Donald Trump has extended his lead over the Republican presidential field, while Democratic overall frontrunner Hillary Clinton now trails underdog Bernie Sanders in the key early voting state of Iowa, polls showed on Sept.10.