Iowa greets first US election eve of 2008
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Top candidates on Wednesday scoured the heartland state of Iowa in search of every last vote on the eve of too-close-to-call preliminary voting in the 2008 White House nominating contests.
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AMES, Iowa  - For Iowa Democrats, the 2008 presidential campaign is starting where the 2004 race ended -- with a search for plain talk and realistic plans on how to end the war in Iraq.
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Republican Mike Huckabee wins in Iowa's caucuses, with Barack Obama tipped to take the Democratic race.
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US presidential rivals George W Bush and John Kerry will both campaign in Iowa, a key swing state, on Wednesday.
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Illinois Democrat Barack Obama and Arkansas Republican Mike Huckabee comfortably won the Iowa precinct caucuses Thursday night, giving their presidential campaigns early triumphs in the first voting of a wide-open 2008 White House nomination process that now moves to the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday.
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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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Early voting for next month's  presidential election began in Florida on Monday, with  Democrats in particular urging supporters to use their early  ballot as a means of avoiding a repeat of the recount fiasco in  the 2000 election.
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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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Presidential candidate John Kerry was a double winner Thursday when two Iowans &#151; both young Democratic Party activists &#151; cast the state's first votes of the 2004 election.
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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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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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Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) will begin airing the first television advertising for his presidential campaign today with two ads aimed at introducing himself to Iowa voters.
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A bit of bubbly, a few verses of Auld Lang Syne and candidates, candidates and more candidates. It's New Year's Eve in Iowa and New Hampshire.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - With the U.S. 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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Democratic Sen. Barack Obama is launching two biographical television ads this week, focusing on early voting Iowa in the first commercials of his presidential campaign.
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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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Voting booths have opened across the United States, as tens of millions of Americans cast their ballots in a fiercely-contested presidential election.