Obama "fires up" thousands before Iowa poll
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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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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has improved on his stunning support in the race for campaign cash, raising his total number of donors to more than 250,000 people in the first six months of the year.
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Democratic Sen. Barack Obama raised $3 million for his presidential campaign in the 24 hours after the first polls closed on Super Tuesday night.
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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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You may find a bunch of political operatives who will suggest that they always believed a black man named Barack Obama would blow away his competitors in Iowa and would destroy the inevitability of a former first lady who is a member of the U.S. Senate.
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Barack Obama has surged past Hillary Clinton to open a big national lead in the Democratic presidential race, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
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US presidential hopefuls step up appeals for support a day before the nominating contest starts in Iowa.
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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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RENO, Nevada  - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama took a small lead over rival Hillary Clinton in Nevada ahead of Saturday's caucus, according to a poll released on Monday.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Barack Obama took a big step on Thursday toward becoming the first black U.S. president as his campaign for change caught fire in Iowa and swept him past Hillary Clinton in the opening Democratic nominating contest.
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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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PERRY, Iowa  - White House hopefuls honed their closing messages and targeted undecided voters 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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Sen. Barack Obama announced on  Sunday he had raised $32.5 million for his presidential  campaign in the past three months, the biggest quarterly  fund-raising for any Democrat ever in a pre-election year.
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Democratic presidential hopeful  Barack Obama surged to a big lead over Hillary Clinton in  California hours before "Super Tuesday" voting began in 24  states, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on  Tuesday.
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Voters in the heartland state of Iowa officially launched the 2008 White House race Thursday with cliffhanger battles among Republicans and Democrats vying to succeed US President George W. Bush.
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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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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.