2008 White House Hopefuls Court Delegates
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To get their foot in the door in Iowa and other leadoff states early, 2008 Republican presidential hopefuls are already meeting with national convention delegates.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other potential independent presidential candidates are joining prominent Republican and Democratic centrists at a meeting that will consider the merits of a third-party bid for the White House.
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Democratic presidential candidates and superdelegates who have endorsed them include:
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The presidential contenders in the crowded 2008 field got started so early, and have so many flaws, that voters and the news media alike seem more excited to talk about those who only might run.
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It's more than half a year &#151; and a few snowstorms &#151; until the first votes in Iowa, yet Democratic presidential hopefuls have already captured some of the delegates critical to winning the nomination.
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While the race for the White House draws most of the public's political attention between now and Election Day, operatives of both parties and private-sector industries will focus a good deal of effort on state races.
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Twenty-four states hold some voting contest on Feb. 5, with 1,678 Democratic delegates and 1,038 Republican delegates to the national presidential nominating conventions up for grabs. A candidate needs 2,025 delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, and 1,191 to win the Republican nomination. Here is a list of the contests and the number of pledged delegates at stake in each:
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Wyoming Republicans choose 12 delegates Saturday to the GOP national convention in September, an attempt to have a brief moment in the political spotlight by weighing in early in the selection of a presidential nominee.
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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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In a hotly contested presidential race, votes are nice -- but it's delegates to this summer's nominating conventions that count.
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Democrat leaders search for a mediator as race for party nomination threatens to drag on until August convention
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Presidential hopefuls employ divergent strategies aimed at winning the most delegates on Feb 5.
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The battle for the White House is hitting full throttle ahead of next week's 22-state "Super Tuesday" contests, but the February 5 nominating bonanza -- the biggest in in US history -- was unlikely to finalize party nominees.
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In a bit of political theater, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Florida Democratic Party clamored to restore convention delegates that had been stripped by the national party.
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ORLANDO, Jan. 28 -- The front-runners in the Florida Republican primary exchanged some of their sharpest criticisms of the campaign on Monday, with each seeking a win on Tuesday that would provide a big haul of delegates and a burst of momentum heading into a Feb. 5 mega-primary.
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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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Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama each won at least eight delegates in New Hampshire's Democratic primary, with six delegates still to be allocated, an AP analysis of primary results showed.