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Hillary Clinton Loses Lead Over Bernie Sanders In New Iowa Poll

Forty-one percent of likely Iowa Democratic caucusgoers said they would support Sanders.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is tied with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Iowa in a new Quinnipiac poll released Thursday.

Forty-one percent of likely Iowa Democratic caucusgoers said that they would support Sanders, compared to 40 percent who said they would support Clinton. The difference between them is less than the poll's margin of error, meaning the two are essentially tied.

In addition, 12 percent of poll respondents said they would support Vice President Joe Biden, who is considering launching a campaign.

Researchers who conducted the poll surveyed 832 Iowans from Aug. 27 to Sept. 8 by calling land lines and cell phones. The poll had a margin of error of +/- 3.4 percentage points.

Sanders has also gained on Clinton in New Hampshire, where a recent poll showed him leading Clinton by 7 percentage points. 

Iowa Democrats in the survey also said by a margin of 86-4 that they found Sanders honest and trustworthy, compared to 64-30 who said that of Clinton. 

In a July 2 Quinnipiac poll, Clinton led Sanders 52-33 percent in Iowa.

While Sanders has gained on Clinton in recent polls, surveys this early in a presidential contest say little about who will win the eventual nomination.

According to HuffPost Pollster, which aggregates publicly available polling data, Sanders still trails Clinton in Iowa by double digits. Clinton maintains a similar lead over Sanders in national polls.

This story has been updated to reflect the most recent polling available. 

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Bernie Sanders' Most Interesting Quotes
On Youth Unemployment(01 of15)
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"We got to put young people to work, we got to give them an education, rather than putting them in jail," Sanders said in an interview on MSNBC's "The Ed Show."

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On The Middle Class(02 of15)
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"Ordinary people are profoundly disgusted with the fact that the middle class is being destroyed and income going to the top 1 percent," Sanders tweeted. (credit:Justin Sullivan via Getty Images)
On Gun Control(03 of15)
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"Folks who do not like guns [are] fine. But we have millions of people who are gun owners in this country -- 99.9 percent of those people obey the law. I want to see real, serious debate and action on guns, but it is not going to take place if we simply have extreme positions on both sides. I think I can bring us to the middle," Sanders said in a CNN interview.

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On Free Tuition(04 of15)
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"It is insane and counter-productive to the best interests of our country, that hundreds of thousands of bright young people cannot afford to go to college, and that millions of others leave school with a mountain of debt that burdens them for decades. That must end," Sanders said during his campaign announcement.

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On Wanting Top Marginal Tax Rate Over 50 Percent(05 of15)
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"In the last 30 years there has been a massive -- we’re talking about many trillions of dollars being redistributed from the middle class to the top one-tenth of 1 percent. It is time to redistribute money back to the working families of this country from the top one-tenth of 1 percent," Sanders said on PBS's "Charlie Rose."

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On Marijuana(06 of15)
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“I coughed a lot, I don’t know. I smoked marijuana twice -- didn’t quite work for me,” Sanders told Yahoo.

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On Universal Health Care(07 of15)
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"So I do believe that we have to move toward a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system. I think it's not going to happen tomorrow, but that certainly should be the goal," Sanders said on ABC’s "This Week."

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On Police Reform(08 of15)
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"We’ve got to demilitarize the police -- we don’t need tanks, you don’t need heavy military equipment in the communities of the United States. We gotta pay attention to the African-American communities, to poverty so these kids get the education and job training they need," Sanders told Yahoo.

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On His American Citizenship(09 of15)
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"Well, no, I do not have dual citizenship with Israel. I'm an American. I don't know where that question came from. I am an American citizen, and I have visited Israel on a couple of occasions. No, I'm an American citizen, period,” Sanders said in an interview with a D.C. NPR affiliate. (credit:Tom Williams via Getty Images)
On Health Care And Education(10 of15)
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"Please don't tell me that the United States of America, our great country, cannot guarantee health care to all people. Don't tell me that every person in this country should not be able to get all the education that they need regardless of their income," Sanders said in Portland, Maine.

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On Campaign Finance Reform(11 of15)
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"A major problem of our campaign finance system is that anybody can start a super PAC on behalf of anybody and can say anything. And this is what makes our current campaign finance situation totally absurd," Sanders said to the Burlington Free Press.

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On Undocumented Immigrants(12 of15)
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"Despite the central role that undocumented workers play in our economy and in our daily lives, these workers are too often reviled by many for political gain and shunted into the shadows," Sanders said at the National Association of Latino Elected Officials conference.

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On Bank Bailouts(13 of15)
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"If a bank is too big to fail, that bank is too big to exist," Sanders said in Denver, Colorado.

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On Raising The Minimum Wage(14 of15)
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"Our goal as a nation is that if somebody works 40 hours a week, that person will not be living in poverty," Sanders said in Iowa.

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On The War On Drugs(15 of15)
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"What I can tell you is this: We have far, far, far too many people in jail for nonviolent crimes, and I think in many ways, the war against drugs has not been successful, and I think we've got to rethink that," Sanders told Yahoo News' Katie Couric. (credit:MICHAEL B. THOMAS via Getty Images)

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