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Provided by The Hill Clintons confidence in an Iowa win grows

A year before the Iowa caucuses, confidence is building among Hillary Clinton allies that shell be able to win the first-in-the-nation presidential contest.

Clinton finished a disappointing third in 2008, but Clinton World is emboldened because no one like then-Sen. Barack Obama has emerged as a possible rival this time around.

There is no Barack Obama looming and ready to suit up and come in that I know of, said Jerry Crawford, who was the 2008 co-chair for the Clinton campaign in Iowa and is currently assisting Ready for Hillarys effort in the Hawkeye State. Thats a fundamentally different lay of the land.

Crawfords comments point to the confidence in Clintons camp that the most-like-Obama potential candidate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), will not get in the race, despite a continued push for her to do so from the left.

On Tuesday, when asked by Fortune magazine if she would run for president, Warren simply said, No.

Regardless of Warren, Clinton allies arent taking any chances in Iowa.

Ready for Hillary, the super-PAC pushing Clinton to make a second bid for the White House, has devoted a significant amount of resources in the state, including direct financial contributions totaling more than $121,000 to local candidates and the Iowa Democratic Party. Officials say they have two staffers based in the state and have organized on the grassroots level in all 99 counties.

The super-PAC has logged quality time at 10 college campuses in Iowa to court young voters and launched its nationwide bus tour in the state.

A new Democratic Party chairman also will soon be in place in the state, and a Clinton friend, Andy McGuire, is in the running for the top spot, which will be decided in a Saturday election.

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Clintons confidence in an Iowa win grows