"An instant organization has just taken place for the Sanders campaign."
Bill Curry
Recent polls show the gap closing between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination. With less than three weeks until the Iowa caucuses, Sanders is getting help from outside organizations.
Bill Curry, a former advisor to President Bill Clinton, said that endorsements from groups like the Working Families Party, MoveOn.org, and Democracy for America gives Sanders a "field-in-a-box."
"An instant organization has just taken place for the Sanders campaign," Curry said on WNPR's Where We Live. "That's going to make a huge difference -- especially in Iowa, but in other primary states."
Two recent polls show Sanders leading in both Iowa and New Hampshire.
The Monmouth University Pollreleased Tuesday shows Sanders with a 53 percent to 39 percent lead.
Also on Tuesday, a Quinnipiac University Poll found Sanders leading in Iowa with 49 percent, to Clinton's 44 percent. But a poll released the following day by The Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics shows Clinton with a 2 point lead, down from a 9 point lead in December.
Nationally, a New York Times/CBS News poll showed 48 percent of Democratic voters backing Clinton, and 41 percent behind Sanders. But Clinton's lead a month ago was 20 percentage points.
In the 2008 primary race between Clinton and then-Senator Barack Obama, a Gallup poll on January 13, 2008 showed Clinton with a 47 to 31 percent lead over Obama.
Former President Bill Clinton spoke at a fundraiser in Bridgeport, Connecticut on Tuesday on behalf of his wife's campaign.The Connecticut Post reported that attendees paid at least $1,000 to attend the private event.
The Iowa caucuses are on February 1, and the New Hampshire primary is on February 9.
