Iowa's moderate Republicans left out in 2008 race
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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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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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Mitt Romney capitalized on his Michigan ties and attracted the most conservative voters Tuesday while John McCain found far fewer Republican primary votes among the Democrats and independents who keyed his victory here eight years ago, an exit poll showed.
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Two of the most influential papers for voters in Iowa and New Hampshire -- the first two states to weigh in at the polls in 2008 -- both endorsed John McCain in the Republican presidential race, but differed in their choice in the Democratic contest.
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A look at conservative Republicans and their preferences for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination, based on recent Associated Press-Ipsos polls.
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White men, conservatives, evangelicals and other pivotal building blocs of the Republican Party are divided among its leading contenders for president, leaving the race for the 2008 GOP nomination highly fluid, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll.
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Lost in the fuss over next week's Super Tuesday presidential contests is the fact that the 2008 congressional campaign also has its official kickoff that day, with primaries in Illinois. Not that this event is being greeted with enthusiasm by many Republicans, who appear desperate to hold the White House to counteract the near-certain extension of the majorities Democrats won in both the Senate and the House in 2006.
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TOPEKA, Kansas  - Republican Sam Brownback of Kansas, a two-term conservative U.S. senator whose presidential campaign failed to draw money or garner much attention, dropped out of the 2008 White House race on Friday.
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Mike Huckabee, a Baptist preacher turned politician, grabbed a slight lead over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney Thursday night in the Iowa caucuses, first test in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards vied for the Democratic victory.
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THE RACE: The presidential race for Democrats, Republicans in Iowa.
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Republican Sam Brownback of  Kansas, a two-term U.S. senator whose presidential campaign  failed to draw money or widespread support from an intended  base of religious conservatives, dropped out of the 2008 White  House race on Friday.
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Republican presidential hopefuls  Rudolph Giuliani and Sen. John McCain will skip Iowa&#39;s August  straw poll, but their campaigns insisted on Wednesday they  would compete in the state&#39;s 2008 nominating contest.
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IowaÃ¢ÂÂs 3rd District merges Des Moines, the stateÃ¢ÂÂs capital and population center, with rural territory to the east. The result is one of the most even partisan splits among the nationÃ¢ÂÂs House districts: President Bush outran Democratic challenger John Kerry there in 2004 by a margin of one-tenth of 1 percentage point.
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Republican presidential contenders Rudy Giuliani and John McCain bowed out of a high-profile Iowa straw poll on Wednesday, rendering the decades-old August contest all but meaningless. Their decisions cleared the way for top rival Mitt Romney, who promptly claimed victory in the early test of organizational strength.
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Former Gov. Mitt Romney placed  second in the Iowa Republican caucus, the first nominating  contest ahead of the 2008 U.S. presidential election, CNN and  ABC news reported on Thursday.
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will not run for president in 2008, Republican officials said Wednesday, as the field of White House contenders continued to shrink more than a year before the first convention delegates are chosen.
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Republicans, gloomy over Iraq and other issues, are contributing far less to their party's presidential candidates than Democrats are giving to theirs, raising questions about Republican prospects in 2008.