Candidates rush to remote Nevada gold town
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ELKO, Nevada  - The remote mining town of Elko became the unlikely center of the battle to lead the United States on Friday as several candidates came to town on the eve of Nevada's presidential nomination contests.
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(Sept. 16) -- Democratic Presidential Candidate John Kerry makes a campaign stop here in Las Vegas. Kerry spoke Thursday afternoon before 3,000 National Guardsmen from around the nation.
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Presidential hopefuls head out  across the US as key primaries  loom in the battle to win  party nominations.
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Candidates staking their claim to set up the nation's first Las Vegas-style &quot;super casino&quot; have begun making their cases, despite suspicions the game is rigged in favour of a government-backed London site.
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A search was under way in the mountainous terrain of western Nevada for James Stephen âSteveâ Fossett.
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A key back-room battle in the contest  to nominate a Democratic presidential candidate is raging far  from the gaze of TV cameras in places like the workers'  cafeteria of the Mirage Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.
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After an energy-sapping slog for votes across the frozen north, White House hopefuls fanned out Thursday as the 2008 presidential race went national in a series of battleground states.
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The battle for the Democratic presidential nomination heads west Saturday with caucuses in Nevada, where unions and a large Hispanic population are heavily expected to influence the results.
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Sen. John Kerry and President Bush alighted in New Mexico yesterday, taking their campaigns to a state with five precious electoral votes and an electorate
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SALT LAKE CITY &#151; The race for governor of Utah is a contest between two men from families that might be the closest thing to royalty in this state.
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Fast-growing Nevada had hoped to play an influential part in selecting the nominees for this year's presidential election, but with the state's caucuses a week away, Republican voters are not seeing many candidates.
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Candidates barreled from town to town as they awaited the last poll of caucus-goers from The Des Moines Register.
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With a week before the first test of the primary season, presidential candidates are pulling out all the stops.
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In Nevada, a state of mostly  desert, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is quickly  nurturing a grass-roots campaign, with a rally on Thursday  showing such efforts are generating enthusiasm.
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A last-minute federal court battle over caucus rules underlines the importance Saturday's vote in Nevada has assumed as a potential momentum-builder in the Democratic presidential campaign.
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Voters will head to the polls and caucus sites Saturday in South Carolina and Nevada, contests that could propel two candidates to front-runner status in this year's wide-open presidential races.
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With a Saturday night deadline for second-quarter fundraising fast approaching, presidential candidates from both major parties are scrambling to rake in the cash before the clock runs out.