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Mulling US Politics on Iowa Eve

 

DES MOINES — First there was the promise of political change in Barack Obama’s historic 2008 election. Then the pledge to upend Washington’s ways after the 2010 tea party wave.

But for some Americans, the change and disruption have come too slowly, or failed altogether. On the eve of the first voting contest in the 2016 presidential election, these voters are pushing for bolder, more uncompromising action, with an intensity that has shaken both the Republican and Democratic establishments.

Candidates named Bush and Clinton — members of America’s elite political families — and others with deep ties to party leadership have been unexpectedly challenged by a billionaire businessman-turned-reality television star, a young senator loathed by GOP leaders, and an unabashed democratic socialist.

“A lot of people feel like the status quo is a machine that’s grinding them down,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Democrat from Missouri. “They are gravitating toward candidates that are disruptive and promising massive change.”

Indeed, the campaigns of Republicans Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, as well as Democrat Bernie Sanders, have been fueled for months by anger, frustration and anxiety over an economic and national security landscape that is undeniably in flux — and a political system some voters believe is unwilling or incapable of meeting new challenges.

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