Candidates hunt for win in Iowa, New Hampshire
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OSCEOLA, Iowa  - Shotgun in hand, rising Republican candidate Mike Huckabee bagged a pheasant on Wednesday as U.S. presidential hopefuls hunted for votes just eight days before the first contest in a wide-open nomination race.
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Iowa voters in two close  nominating races began the process of choosing the next U.S.  president on Thursday, as the first test in the Democratic  battle between Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards  came down to a nail-biting finale.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - With the U.S. presidential race tightening and little time before the first party nomination contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, candidates are trying to woo voters without trampling on their holidays.
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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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MANCHESTER, New Hampshire  - Hillary Clinton fought to complete a dramatic comeback in New Hampshire against Barack Obama on Tuesday, with the two Democrats running neck-and-neck in a tighter presidential race than predicted by recent U.S. public opinion polls.
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US President George W. Bush and his Democratic rival, John Kerry, move their battle to the Midwestern state of Iowa as the two candidates slug it out on issues ranging from national security to government-run pensions less than two weeks before polling day.
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THE RACE: The presidential primary race for Democrats, Republicans in New Hampshire
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PLYMOUTH, New Hampshire  - As most of his rivals fight for the national spotlight in Iowa, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is boosting his campaign in New Hampshire in a last-ditch gamble days before the start of a close race for the  Republican presidential nomination.
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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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Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were locked in a tight battle Tuesday in the key New Hampshire presidential primary while Republican John McCain won a back-from-the dead victory in the 2008 nomination contest.
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MANCHESTER, New Hampshire  - Voters in New Hampshire choose candidates for U.S. president on Tuesday, with Hillary Clinton at risk of seeing her once high-flying Democratic campaign buried under rival Barack Obama's surge.
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With six days to go until the New Hampshire primary, there are ties in poll results for the top candidates in both parties.
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Republican Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney collided Tuesday in New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary, rivals in urgent need of a triumph in the campaign for the White House. Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton squared off in the Democratic race. By custom, the first handful of votes was cast, at midnight, in Dixville Notch in the far northern tip of the state.
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Bloomberg - Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama, who won the Iowa caucuses, leads Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire by 12 percentage points among likely voters in the Jan. 8 Democratic presidential primary, according to an American Research Group Inc. poll.
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THE RACE: The presidential race for Democrats, Republicans in Iowa.
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President Bush and Senator John Kerry campaigned today in Pennsylvania and Iowa, respectively, two vital swing states, where they emphasized jobs, health care and other
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A strategy to win Iowa and New Hampshire didn't work. Now Romney hopes a new message and a home state advantage might do the trick