Candidates compete at Iowa dinner
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Democratic presidential hopefuls warmed up for Sunday's big debate by trying to impress about 1,000 activists at the Iowa Democratic Party's Hall of Fame dinner on Saturday.
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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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WATERLOO, Iowa  - With less than two weeks until Iowa kicks off the presidential nomination battles, several contenders took their campaigns to church on Sunday and a leading Republican tried to allay concerns about his health.
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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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IOWA CITY, July 3 -- Despite ongoing and determined attempts to spread the early nominating process across several states, the top Democratic presidential contenders are converging this week on a familiar patch of land: Iowa.
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Three Democratic presidential contenders courted the party's hard-core activists at a political fundraiser Friday night, arguing the party can win the values debate with Republicans.
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Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama vied for victory Thursday night in the Iowa caucuses, the first critical test in the race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. Mike Huckabee battled Mitt Romney among Republicans.
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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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PERRY, Iowa  - White House hopefuls honed their closing messages and traded jabs over their records in Iowa on Monday, three days before the state opens the presidential nominating battle in a too-close-to-call race.
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OSCEOLA, Iowa  - Shotgun in hand, rising Republican candidate Mike Huckabee bagged a pheasant on Wednesday as U.S. presidential hopefuls hunted for votes just eight days before the first contest in a wide-open nomination race.
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Sen. Barack Obama, whose name has come up in speculation about the 2008 presidential race, will be the headline speaker at the Iowa Democratic Party's highest profile event this year in a state that traditionally holds the first delegate-selection caucuses.
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US presidential hopefuls work hard ahead of a tight Iowa caucus, the first big test in the nomination battle.
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Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are competing for sizable if somewhat overshadowed delegate prizes this weekend as voters in four scattered states take their turn saying which one should be the Democratic presidential nominee.
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Romney says he and his wife won't embarrass the nation in White House as happened in "the Clinton years" ... Clinton asks Iowans in closing pitch to vote for her because she is ready to be president ... Huckabee emphasizes record against abortion, gun control ... McCain, at 71, says he has the endurance for the presidency ... Iowa voters pack Obama event as they continue to assess candidates.
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White House hopefuls Wednesday beseeched the people of Iowa to take the first step to change America, on the eve of the state's dead-heat first nominating clash of the 2008 election.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Ten White House hopefuls scoured the small towns of Iowa for undecided voters on Thursday, pleading for support one week before the state opens a too-close-to-call presidential nomination race.
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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.