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Obama Wins Iowa; Edwards 2nd, Clinton Close 3rd

With 100% of Democratic precincts reporting, Edwards just ahead of Clinton

Jan 4, 08 3:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Riding a record turnout of young, independent and new voters, Barack Obama decisively won the Democratic caucuses in Iowa last night, with John Edwards narrowly edging out Hillary Clinton for second. With all Democratic precincts reporting, Obama, aiming to be the first black president of the United States, prevailed with... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Joe Biden • Bill Richardson • Iowa • presidential primaries • Dennis Kucinich • Chris Dodd • Iowa caucus • Democratic presidential primaries

UPDATED

Huckabee Wins Iowa
Easily Over Romney

Strong support from evangelicals
gives him a quick victory

Jan 4, 08 2:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Mike Huckabee won yesterday's Iowa caucuses thanks to a surge of support from evangelical voters. The former Arkansas governor and Baptist preacher defeated second-place finisher Mitt Romney with relative ease, despite being outspent 4 to 1, the New York Times notes. Fred Thompson held a slim lead over John McCain... More »

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Mitt Romney • John McCain • Fred Thompson • Mike Huckabee • Ron Paul • Iowa caucus

OPINION

What Will
They Say After the Caucuses?

Why wait until tonight? Get the spin for each and every result here

Jan 3, 08 4:13 PM CST
(Newser) - No matter what result the Iowa caucuses bring tonight, the campaigns will have plenty of spin up their sleeves. NBC’s Chuck Todd previews the politico talk:
  • John Edwards: No one needs this one more. A victory will be a vindication of populism and domestic issues. A loss may
... More »

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Mitt Romney • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • John Edwards • Mike Huckabee • Iowa caucus • political spin

Iowa Farm Town Meditative About Caucuses

Candidates embrace inner gurus in visits to stereotype-bending Fairfield

Jan 3, 08 1:56 PM CST
(Newser) - To win over likely caucus-goers in Fairfield, Iowa, candidates need to tap their spiritual sides, the Wall Street Journal reports. Roughly a third of the little farm town practices transcendental meditation, and citizens have elected a meditation devotee mayor. The candidates are pandering accordingly—Barack Obama, for instance, pointed his... More »

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Barack Obama • Fred Thompson • Iowa City • Fairfield • Iowa caucus

OPINION

What Could We Learn Tonight?

Washington Post's Dan Balz runs down the possibilities

Jan 3, 08 11:54 AM CST
(Newser) - How might the presidential race turn on tonight’s Iowa caucuses? What answers await after the election’s first vote? The Washington Post’s Dan Balz runs down some possibilities:
  1. Will either race end immediately? Probably only if Hillary Clinton sweeps
  2. How big a bounce can the victors expect?
... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John Edwards • Mike Huckabee • Iowa caucus

Iowa Keeps Candidates Awake at Night

24/7 campaigns have made for a raft of fatigue-induced gaffes

Jan 3, 08 11:15 AM CST
(Newser) - Fatigue has officially taken hold in Iowa, and not just for voters. “I won’t remember Iowans,” a sleep-deprived Mitt Romney said recently (he meant “I’ll never forget”), while Mike Huckabee offered “apologies” over Benazir Bhutto’s death (he’s not a suspect), and... More »

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Mitt Romney • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • Mike Huckabee • sleep deprivation • Iowa caucus • fatigue • Election 2008

Iowa Tests Appeal of Populism

Will anti-business rhetoric work for Huckabee, Edwards?

Jan 3, 08 9:37 AM CST
(Newser) - Tonight's Iowa caucuses are the first test for the aggressively populist message of Mike Huckabee and John Edwards; even if the candidates falter, writes the Wall Street Journal, their stridently anti-business message—"corporate greed is squeezing the middle class," Edwards declared yesterday—has played well in Iowa, and... More »

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Hillary Clinton • John Edwards • Mike Huckabee • Iowa caucus • Election 2008

Clinton Drops to 3rd in Last Poll

Obama leads Edwards by 4% hours before Iowa caucus

Jan 3, 08 6:59 AM CST
(Newser) - A new poll conducted hours before the Iowa caucus gives a surging Barack Obama a 4-point lead over John Edwards, with Hillary Clinton slipping to third place. The Reuters/Zogby poll puts Obama at 31% support among likely Democratic caucus-goers, with Edwards polling 27% and Clinton 24%. Among Republicans, Mike Huckabee... More »

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Mitt Romney • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John Edwards • Mike Huckabee • Iowa caucus • Election 2008

Thompson Might Call It Quits

Expected to drop out without a strong showing in Iowa

Jan 3, 08 3:21 AM CST
(Newser) - Insiders say GOP presidential hopeful Fred Thompson will probably drop out of the race if he doesn't do well in Iowa, Politico reports. The former senator and "Law & Order" actor's candidacy generated a lot of excitement in its early days but never gained much traction nationwide. More »

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Mitt Romney • John McCain • Fred Thompson • Mike Huckabee • Law and Order • Republican candidate • Iowa caucus

Iowa Goes Down to the Wire

Candidates make last-minute appeals to voters

Jan 2, 08 9:30 PM CST
(Newser) - The candidates continued an all-out blitz to the finish line before tomorrow's Iowa caucuses as polls continued to show tight races, the AP reports. All three leading Democrats took out dinner-hour ads on TV. "After all the town meetings, the pie and coffee, it all comes down to this:... More »

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Mitt Romney • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • John Edwards • Mike Huckabee • Iowa caucus

Why Iowa's a Slog for Hillary

As memo predicted in May, the state has been an uphill battle

Jan 2, 08 2:05 PM CST
(Newser) - The Hillary Clinton camp was convinced that the road to the nomination must go through Iowa, but right about now they may be wishing they'd taken the advice of an aide who urged her to bypass the first caucus state completely. Politico revisits the aide's May memo for keys to... More »

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Iraq • Hillary Clinton • Clinton 2008 • Iowa caucus • Democratic presidential primaries • female president • caucusgoers • Hawkeye State

McCain Takes National Lead; Giuliani Plummets

Giuliani's support off 13 points since September

Jan 2, 08 1:15 PM CST
(Newser) - A new poll shows John McCain ahead nationally among Republicans for the first time in a year, and a sliding Rudy Giuliani at his lowest mark in months. McCain is favored by 22% of GOP voters, with Giuliani at 20%, Mike Huckabee at 17%, and Mitt Romney at 12%. Giuliani... More »

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Mitt Romney • John McCain • Rudy Giuliani • Mike Huckabee • poll • Ron Paul • America's Mayor • Iowa caucus

Edwards Talks Tough on Iraq, Business

Plans to pull all
troops out of Iraq; stop corporate abuses

Jan 2, 08 12:41 PM CST
(Newser) - John Edwards is turning up the heat in the countdown to Iowa, considered do-or-die for his campaign. He tells the New York Times that he would be the president quickest to bring American troops home from Iraq, pulling them all out—including those providing training and support for the Iraqi... More »

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health care • John Edwards • Iraq pullout • retirement • corporate responsibility • Iowa caucus • Iraq security

Iowa Blocks Masses of Voters

System bars absentee voting, triggers calls for reform

Jan 2, 08 3:45 AM CST
(Newser) - White House hopefuls have put enormous efforts into the Iowa campaign—but only a small fraction of state residents will participate in the upcoming caucus, which critics charge is an undemocratic process that blocks masses of working-class people. In 2000, just 59,000 Democrats and 87,000 Republicans voted in... More »

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Democrats • Republican • GOP • Iowa caucus • Iowa National Guard • Iowa State Republican Party • Ray Hoffman

Huckabee
Goes Negative ... Sort Of

Candidate ditches anti-Romney spot after screening for the media

Jan 1, 08 12:38 PM CST
(Newser) - Negative campaigning has finally gone meta. Mike Huckabee held a press conference yesterday to announce that he wouldn't air his latest campaign ad—a 30-second attack on his closest rival, Mitt Romney—then aired it in full for the press corps, the Washington Post reports. Huckabee says he pulled the... More »

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Mitt Romney • Mike Huckabee • Iowa caucus • negative campaigning • Election 2008

Huckabee Tests Limits of Faith

Preaching prompted a backlash in Arkansas;
in Iowa, will Christian soldiers come out?

Dec 31, 07 7:05 PM CST
(Newser) - Mike Huckabee is banking on his deep Christian faith drawing voters to him in the presidential primaries, but that same passion has proven a liability in the past. As Arkansas governor, Huckabee made several religious molehills into mountains big enough for Moses, the LA Times reports in an examination of... More »

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religion • Mike Huckabee • Christian conservatives • evangelicals • separation of church and state • Iowa caucus • Republican presidential primaries • New Hampshire primary • Baptist

Chelsea's
Lips Are
Sealed

On trail with mom, ex-first kid stiffs press—
even preteen reporter

Dec 31, 07 2:05 PM CST
(Newser) - Chelsea Clinton has strictly maintained press silence while campaigning with her mom in Iowa, turning down even a “kid reporter” for the Scholastic News, the AP reports. "I'm sorry,” Chelsea told the 9-year-old yesterday, “I don't talk to the press and that applies to you, unfortunately.... More »

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Clinton 2008 • Chelsea Clinton • Iowa caucus • Sydney Rieckhoff

OPINION

What's Bill Doing in This Picture?

Billary could become first woman* president, opines Politico scribe

Dec 31, 07 11:25 AM CST
(Newser) - Once, Hillary Clinton wanted to keep Bill and his baggage tucked safely in the backseat. Now, as panic takes hold in Iowa, she's set him loose, the latest swerve in a "herky-jerky" campaign that has hopped from strategy to strategy, writes the Politico’s Elizabeth Drew in an analysis... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Bill Clinton • Clinton 2008 • Iowa caucus • Democratic presidential primaries • female president • New Hampshire primary • Election 2008 • presidential election

On 7th Day, They Campaigned

Candidates turn to the tube as Iowa caucus looms

Dec 31, 07 3:15 AM CST
(Newser) - With four days of campaigning left in Iowa, leading White House hopefuls skipped church services and attended another weekend ritual—Sunday political talk shows. GOP frontrunner Mike Huckabee missed a service at the Cornerstone Family Church to appear on NBC, and Hillary Clinton arrived late and slipped out early at... More »

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Hillary Clinton • John McCain • Rudy Giuliani • Fred Thompson • Mike Huckabee • Benazir Bhutto • Chris Dodd • Iowa caucus • Corinthian Baptist church • Cornerstone Family Church • Election 2008

Hillary Leads in Iowa; Huck, Mitt Neck-and-Neck

Clinton clings to slim lead, but poll finds 'lots of potential for change'

Dec 30, 07 8:56 AM CST
(Newser) - With just four days left before Iowans gather to caucus, a Reuters/C-Span/Zogby poll released today found Hillary Clinton leads Barack Obama 31% to 27%, while GOP heavyweights Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee are in a dead heat. Third-place Democratic contender John Edwards was running a strong 24%. Republican John McCain,... More »

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Mitt Romney • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • John Edwards • Rudy Giuliani • Fred Thompson • Mike Huckabee • Ron Paul • Iowa caucus • John Zogby • Election 2008

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