Rove: Hillary’s Lead over Sanders Collapsing Because She’s ‘Old and Tired’

WALLACE: "And in particular whether he has the organization after those —"
LEE: "After those."
WALLACE: "Those first two states. We asked you for questions for the panel and we got this on Facebook from Steve Norton. He writes, 'why do at the New York/D.C. experts say Bernie can’t win? I say if he wins the first two states, the support and money will overtake Hillary. Because that is where the Democratic base really is. Karl, how do you answer Steve?"
ROVE: "Well, I’d say two things. One is, there are not enough Johnson County, Iowas, around the country and Keene, New Hampshires, around the country for —"
WALLACE: "And explain what they are."
ROVE: "These are very liberal bastions of very liberal Democrats. In Iowa, they turn out — it’s a college county, for example, in Iowa, it’s a college town in New Hampshire. Look, Bernie Sanders is likely to win both of these. If you take a look at — even in Iowa, where Hillary and the Real Clear Politics average lead by four points, she — she — if you — there’s one poll, which was done using automated telephone devices, it gave her a 21-point lead. You take that out, and all the polls in January average out to a 0.6 percent lead. And she’s — she was way ahead in — in December. Eight of eight polls, led by 18 points on average in December. It’s collapsed. And it’s collapsing because, not just because he’s got the excitement. It’s because she’s old and tired and she — and he seems to be fresh and liberal. And the fact of the matter is, though, after you head south, it gets very tough for him because there are not a lot of liberal places as liberal as we find in New Hampshire and Iowa to sustain him. When you get to South Carolina or Nevada, you get a lot more African-Americans, a lot more Latinos, and a lot fewer liberal wackos."
WALLACE: "Well, they’re — they’re Americans, too, Karl."