Candidates urge voter turnout in Iowa
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Uplifting appeals largely replaced stinging insults Tuesday as Democratic and Republican candidates did the only thing left to do in Iowa races that are too close to call Â encourage supporters to vote for them.
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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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Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards implored New Hampshire voters Friday to repudiate the Iowa caucus results and vote for a candidate "who will fight for the middle class" against corporate interests that he accuses of moving jobs overseas and making health care expensive.
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With just one week to go before the Iowa caucuses, the Democratic presidential candidates are focusing on the Hawkeye state, working to clearly define the choices they are offering.
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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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DES MOINES, Jan. 1 It was the quintessential Iowa caucus scene: Supporters of Republican and Democratic candidates sat at Buzzard Billy's bar, holding campaign signs and chatting amiably. Democratic hopeful Bill Richardson shook hands, giving the Iowa voters the one-on-one attention they expect.
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Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich on Tuesday asked his supporters to make rival Barack Obama their second choice if he doesn't meet a cutoff point for voting in Iowa's caucuses.
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Republican John McCain has put much of his time and effort into other states, but suggested Wednesday that recent endorsements could lead Iowa voters to give his presidential campaign another look.
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After most took Christmas Day off the campaign trail, presidential candidates are flocking back to Iowa to try to break the logjam at the top of the Hawkeye State's first-in-the-nation caucus.
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Democratic presidential hopeful  Hillary Clinton may have shot herself in the foot trying to get  Iowa voters to pledge support to her -- she is encouraging them  to go caucus on January 14, 11 days too late.
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DES MOINES, Jan. 1 -- With two days before Iowans go to the polls, significant support for Sen. Barack Obama from political independents has put rival Democratic campaigns on edge, challenging the traditional model of the state's caucuses as a low-turnout exercise dominated by partisan insiders.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Voters in Iowa begin the process of choosing the next U.S. president on Thursday, and a new poll showed Barack Obama leading John Edwards in the Democratic nominating contest -- with Hillary Clinton falling to a potentially disastrous third.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - In an effort of record size, tens of thousands of volunteers in Iowa have knocked on doors, cajoled neighbors, stuffed mailboxes and manned phone lines on behalf of their favorite White House contender.
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While candidates stump in Iowa, voters already have opened the 2008 presidential race by casting absentee ballots in nearly a dozen other states.
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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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On the eve of the long-awaited and too-close-to-call first voting in 2008 White House nominating contests, top candidates will Wednesday zigzag across Iowa to plead for every last vote.
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BURLINGTON, Iowa  - White House hopefuls hammered home their closing messages on Saturday in a frenzied hunt for votes in Iowa, with Democrat Barack Obama promising a new type of politics and rival Hillary Clinton proclaiming her readiness to lead.