Candidates struggle to Iowa finish line
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John Edwards willed himself through a 36-hour marathon, Barack Obama dispatched canvassers onto frigid streets and Hillary Rodham Clinton hand-carried bagels and coffee to volunteers Wednesday, vying for victory in the Iowa caucuses and priceless momentum in the race for the White House. Leading Republicans exchanged routine unpleasantries on a final day of campaigning.
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The results of the Des Moines Registerâs final poll of Iowa caucus-goers continued to reverberate across the campaign trail as the clock ticked toward the caucuses.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Democrat Hillary Clinton holds a narrow lead in Iowa four days before the state opens the presidential nominating race, while Republicans Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney are virtually tied, according to a Reuters/C-Span/Zogby poll released on Sunday.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Democrat Barack Obama pulled even with Hillary Clinton in Iowa, with John Edwards close behind, in a tightening three-way race one day before the first presidential nominating contest, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
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DAVENPORT, Iowa  - White House hopefuls barnstormed across Iowa in a frenzied plea for support on Wednesday, with polls showing deadlocked races in both parties the day before the state's contest kicking off the process of choosing presidential candidates.
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Bloomberg - Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- As Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney started a three-day, 17-stop blitz through Iowa before tomorrow's pivotal nominating caucuses, rivals Rudy Giuliani and Ron Paul took time off from campaigning.
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With Iowa just three weeks away, the end of indignities is near for third-tier candidates. And not a moment too soon
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Democrat Hillary Clinton holds a narrow lead in Iowa four days before the state opens the presidential nominating race, while Republicans Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney are virtually tied, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Sunday.
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New Hampshire is where Iowa's Democratic caucus victors get ratified and where its Republican winners get stung. Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mike Huckabee headed into the Granite State on Friday as Iowa's presidential champions, one hoping to ride history's trend and the other eager to break it. Neither can expect it to be easy.
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White House foes Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton battled vote-by-vote for pole position in the Iowa caucuses Tuesday, in the nervy run-in to Thursday's first 2008 nominating clash.
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No. 25 Iowa is having a hard time keeping its tailbacks healthy.
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White House hopefuls dashed  across Iowa in a hunt for votes on Wednesday, with Hillary  Clinton and her two top rivals scrambling to avoid third place  in a tight opening round of voting for the U.S. Democratic  presidential nomination.
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Heavy turnout was slowing Iowa's precinct caucuses Thursday night and could delay the process taking place at nearly 1,800 spots across the state.
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The presidential campaigns descended this morning on Iowa, a heavily contested battleground state, as President Bush and Senator John Kerry argued in separate appearances over who was more misguided in the war in Iraq.
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Clinton and Romney suffer tough losses in the state's caucuses, as turnout is high and the contest is scrambled for both parties
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DAVENPORT, Iowa  - White House hopefuls dashed across Iowa in a hunt for votes on Wednesday, with Hillary Clinton and her two top rivals scrambling to avoid third place in a tight opening round of voting for the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination.
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Democrats Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards fought for first Thursday in Iowa's presidential caucuses, a multimillion-dollar exercise in grass-roots democracy and the initial, critical test in the campaign for the party's 2008 nomination. Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee vied for the Republican victory.