With Vote Near, Christmas and Campaigning Collide in Iowa
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DES MOINES -- Chris Dodd, the Democratic senator from Connecticut, has been rolling across Iowa in what he calls the "Twelve Days of Results" tour. It's like the 12 Days of Christmas -- only with themes such as "Results To Protect Homeowners" replacing all that "10 Lords a-Leaping" business.
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Â· Huge crowds flock to hear victor of Iowa caucuses   Â· Hostility to Bush sways young voters
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The first votes in the contest to elect the next president will be cast in 10 weeks and two days, and intensive campaigning continues this week in Iowa, the site of the kickoff caucuses, to make every moment until then count.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - With the 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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As presidential primaries move earlier, candidates are debating how to campaign during a season of good cheer.
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White House candidates Monday launch a New Year's eve blitz of Iowa, mining for last minute support three days before the state's nominating contests kick off the 2008 election circus.
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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  -  encourage supporters to vote for them.
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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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Iowans are about to become the first in the nation to pick candidates for the 2008 presidential election. The would-be nominees are busy today trying to sway the undecided. A poll shows three Democrats and two Republicans tied at the top.
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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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It's more than half a year &#151; and a few snowstorms &#151; until the first votes in Iowa, yet Democratic presidential hopefuls have already captured some of the delegates critical to winning the nomination.
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Heavy turnout for the Iowa caucuses Thursday night threatened to drag out the process during the first test vote of the 2008 presidential elections.
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This year's presidential election began with Iowa's caucuses back in January, and it could be determined by how Iowans vote Nov. 2.
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With less than one week to go before the first major event of the 2008 US electoral season, Republican and Democratic presidential hopefuls are engaged in a bitter war for votes in Iowa via advertising in the electronic news media.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - A clash between Christmas vacations and the U.S. election calendar has left presidential campaigns in Iowa struggling with a shortage of student volunteers to call voters, distribute pamphlets and drive people to the polls.
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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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Just about everybody wants to have their say in this presidential election. From evangelical preachers who claim "God is not a Republican or a Democrat" to the anti-abortion Catholics Against Kerry, political advertising by smaller groups, and individuals in some cases, is popping up across the country.