Candidates struggle to Iowa finish line
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Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards closed out a long, grueling Iowa caucus campaign Wednesday night with statewide television appeals, each seeking an early triumph in the race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. Leading Republicans exchanged routine unpleasantries on a final day of campaigning.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Voters in Iowa begin the process of choosing the next U.S. president on Thursday with two close nominating races, as a new poll showed Democrat Barack Obama leading John Edwards -- with Hillary Clinton falling to a potentially damaging third.
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DES MOINES, Iowa -- With less than two weeks until Election Day, the candidates continue to stream into Iowa to fight for its seven electoral votes.
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For Iowa's moderate  Republicans, the final days of a heated campaign to win the  party's nomination for next year's U.S. presidential election  are a painful reminder of their own second-class status in the  party.
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The latest Iowa Hawkeye poll shows a tight Democratic race and a Romney blowout on the GOP side
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Voters in Iowa begin the process of choosing the next U.S. president on Thursday, with Democrats Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards in a frantic scramble for the top spot in the campaign's first nominating contest.
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Chicago Tribune - As the campaign for president becomes increasingly vitriolic, Sen. John Kerry and President Bush visited north-central Iowa on Wednesday, with each portraying the other as incompetent to lead the war against terrorism.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Mike Huckabee hold narrow leads on their top rivals two days before the state opens the presidential nominating race, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Tuesday.
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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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All the action this New Year's is in the Hawkeye State, but the candidates  -  sprinting toward Caucus Day  -  won't be partying much
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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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Not long after winning this year's first presidential test, Iowa's Democratic caucuses in January, Sen. John Kerry set about securing the state for his Nov. 2 election against President Bush. He still has a ways to go.
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Just two weeks until the Iowa caucuses, the Democratic presidential candidates appear to be in a dead heat in the Hawkeye State, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll.
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Iowans try to ignore the fracas but can't help worrying how it will affect the prolonged campaign season
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Contenders in the 2008 US presidential race campaign in Iowa, a key early state in picking each party's nominee.
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Both candidates are making their final blitzes through several swing states in the waning hours of the campaign, delivering punchier and sharper critiques.
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John Edwards predicts his financial disadvantage against Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama would be quickly overcome if he were to pull off a victory in the Iowa presidential caucuses Thursday