“Martin O’Malley’s campaign is perilously close to financial collapse,” The Washington Post reports. His campaign is seeking public matching funds to get to Iowa, but will hobble his campaign if, by some chance, he survives to the general election. Even if the O’Malley campaign makes it to Iowa, it may not matter:
The possibilities in Iowa are grim: Because of the complicated rules governing the caucuses, O’Malley risks not getting on the scoreboard at all on Feb. 1 unless his support builds markedly between now and then. In most of the 1,682 precincts, a candidate must receive 15 percent backing or their performance is recorded as zero. O’Malley has remained stuck in the single digits in Iowa polling.
The O’Malley campaign team believes since their candidate “has spent more time in Iowa than either of his rivals” that he can pull off an upset on February 1, 2016.