Races close as Iowa kicks off White House campaign
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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 Barack Obama leading John Edwards among Democrats -- with Hillary Clinton falling to a potentially damaging third.
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DES MOINES, Iowa -- As the November election draws closer, the candidates are pulling off the gloves to win the battleground states.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mike Huckabee capped come-from-behind campaigns with Iowa victories on Thursday to win the first contests of the U.S. presidential nominating race, U.S. media reported.
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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 kind of politics and rival Hillary Clinton proclaiming her readiness to lead.
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On the eve of the first nominating  contest of the 2008 U.S. presidential race, traders on the  political prediction markets were betting on Thursday on  victories in Iowa by Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and former  Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
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THE RACE: The presidential primary in Iowa for Democrats and Republicans.
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Democratic presidential hopeful  Barack Obama fired up thousands of supporters across Iowa on  Wednesday, one day before the first of state-by-state votes to  pick nominees for the 2008 White House race.
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Sen. Barack Obama, bidding to become the nation's first black president, captured the Iowa caucuses Thursday night, opening test in the race for the 2008 Democratic nomination. Mike Huckabee rode a wave of support from evangelical Christians to victory in the Republican caucuses.
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COLUMBUS CENTER, Iowa  - Four days before Iowa voters kick off a tight presidential race, Republican Mike Huckabee said on Sunday rival Mitt Romney could not be trusted to be president and Democrat Hillary Clinton said her husband would have no formal White House role if she wins.
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THE RACE: The presidential race for Democrats, Republicans in Iowa
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White House rivals Monday spent the dying hours of the year trading harsh new insults and trekked across snow blasted Iowa, three days before the state kicks off the 2008 election race.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Democrat Hillary Clinton holds a narrow lead in Iowa four days before the state opens the presidential nominating race, while Republicans Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney are virtually tied, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Sunday.
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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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The race to the White House will pick up speed on Monday as the Republican Party opens its convention and moves towards George W. Bush accepting the party&#39;s nomination.
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DES MOINES, Dec. 14 -- With both parties lacking clear front-runners in the race for the White House, several of the undecided Iowa voters assembled by The Washington Post this week to talk in-depth about the contenders are still weighing as many as four candidates just weeks before the state's f...
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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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Iowa Democrats will hold their presidential caucuses for Jan. 3, joining Republicans in holding the kickoff 2008 presidential contest on the earliest ever date for a White House nomination contest.