Iowa's big lesson: Stick to the basics
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After all the campaigns' sophisticated media tactics and high-tech maneuvering, Iowa voters offered the presidential candidates a version of Politics 101: In this state, stick to the basics.
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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
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Democrats say tax the wealthiest in final debate before Iowa's caucuses ... Clinton campaign adviser out after comment about Obama's teenage drug use ... McCain calls on baseball players to cooperate after Mitchell Report ... Trailing in Iowa, Romney calls Huckabee "too liberal" on a host of issues ... Ron Paul pays Huckabee critics to travel to Iowa ... Obama wants you to be heard ... Edwards talks to Iowa's undecideds ... Clinton strikes intimate family note ... Huckabee's record on women's rights faces increased scrutiny.
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Some questions and answers about the Iowa caucuses this Thursday:
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After staying close in the first half against a No. 12 Louisville team that was shooting 61 percent, Iowa coach Steve Alford knew it was only a matter of time before his Hawkeyes&#39; defense would change the momentum.
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Want an early hint how the Republican caucuses are going? Check Plymouth County Thursday evening in remote northwest Iowa Â chilly home of Blue Bunny ice cream and a hotbed of evangelical activists who could sway the first voting of the 2008 presidential campaign.
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For Iowa Democrats, the 2008  presidential campaign is starting where the 2004 race ended --  with a search for plain talk and realistic plans on how to end  the war in Iraq.
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AUTAUGAVILLE, Ala. - There's something corny about Ted Johnson's plan to help educate schoolchildren about America's geography...
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Bloomberg - Jan. 1 (Bloomberg) -- After a yearlong campaign in Iowa, the Republican and Democratic presidential front-runners are boiling down their arguments to a six-letter word: change.
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Big decisions will be made in Iowa on Thursday. Caucus-goers will vote based on politics, leadership, group psychology  -  and sometimes just 'cause Daddy told them so
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There are also some basic facts about taxes in the U.S. that ideology canât change, and if you keep these in mind, you will have an easier time keeping up with the debate.
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Big decisions will be made in Iowa on Thursday. Caucus-goers will vote based on politics, leadership, group psychology -- and sometimes just 'cause Daddy told them so
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DES MOINES -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton had a decision to make. After someone in her campaign leaked a memo late last month suggesting that she skip the Iowa caucuses, the New York Democrat needed to show that she was committed to winning the crucial first contest on the presidential nominating...
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So long, ethanol. Hello, taxes. More than geography changes when the 2008 presidential campaign leaves the land of flat Â aka Iowa Â for New Hampshire, the Granite State. The electorate is different, and the blend of issues.
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PERRY, Iowa  - White House hopefuls honed their closing messages and targeted undecided voters in Iowa on Monday, three days before the state opens the presidential nominating battle in a too-close-to-call race.
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DES MOINES -- In a land of corn and caucuses, where harvests are measured by bushels and buzz, the presidential campaigns march through the seasons in a curious rite of persuasion. First comes biography, then policy and, finally, a political pitch calibrated to the shifting climate.
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Stepping into a polling booth and pulling a lever or pushing a button is too easy for Iowans.