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Iowa caucus -- myths and reality
CNN - 6 hours ago
But it is also an overhyped media circus, which helps give Iowa disproportionate influence on who gets the Republican nomination, despite the fact that no binding delegates are actually selected. The Iowa caucuses are low-turnout, high-intensity ...
Iowa Caucuses: Where To Find The GOP Candidates On The Final Day
Huffington Post - 17 minutes ago
The rally is his only scheduled stop before a caucus night party at the Hotel Fort Des Moines at 8:45 pm Rick Santorum will host a now-plausibly named Iowa Caucus Victory Party at 7:00 pm at the Stoney Creek Inn in Johnston. Santorum, who has ridden a ...
Iowa caucuses: Republicans in final flurry of campaigning
BBC News - 1 hour ago
Republican presidential candidates are out making their final pitch to voters on the last full day of campaigning before the Iowa caucuses. Three contenders, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum, lead the pack ahead of Tuesday's vote. ...
In Iowa caucus, independent voters could swing results
Washington Post (blog) - 2 hours ago
Only registered Republicans can vote in the Iowa caucuses, but anyone eligible to vote or even registered with another party can decide to register as a Republican on Tuesday evening and participate in the caucuses. “I think we could have record caucus ...
Winners and Losers of the Iowa Caucus
ABC News - 2 hours ago
By AMY BINGHAM (@Amy_Bingham) The Iowa caucus is Tuesday and the six Republican candidates competing for a top spot are putting the pedal to the medal in a final push to woo prospective caucus-goers. But despite the thousands of bus-tour miles put on ...
The overhyped, unrepresentative Iowa caucuses
CBS News - 8 hours ago
DES MOINES -- A total of 119188 people participated in the 2008 Iowa Republican caucuses. That's about 20 percent of Iowa's registered Republicans, 4 percent of the population of Iowa, and .04 percent of the total US population; it's also less than ...
Iowa caucuses: Pulling the weeds from Republican field
CNN - 3 hours ago
Three Republican candidates -- Ron Paul, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum -- are on the cusp of grabbing a coveted top-three finish in Iowa, the leadoff caucus state, which rarely picks presidents but usually finds a way to whittle down the field of ...
Iowa caucuses: Republican candidates make final pitch
BBC News - 5 hours ago
Republican White House hopefuls are making their final pitches to voters as they enter a last day of campaigning ahead of Tuesday's Iowa caucuses. Mitt Romney maintains a narrow lead over Ron Paul, his nearest rival, although opinion polls show many in ...
Iowa sleeper Santorum sends caucus rivals scrambling
Reuters - 1 hour ago
Santorum, a second-tier candidate until a jump in the polls last week, claimed the momentum as he and the other Republican candidates barnstormed across Iowa making final arguments and trying to bolster turnout ahead of Tuesday's Iowa caucuses. ...
Iowa Caucuses: What to Expect (Short of Results)
Wall Street Journal (blog) - 3 hours ago
By Mary Lu Carnevale The Iowa Republican Party calls the caucuses “among the most transparent, grassroots-base political activities in the country,” but for those outside the Hawkeye State, the procedures can be somewhat obscure. ...
Iowa GOP caucus 2012: Romney, Santorum and Paul sprint to the finish
The Guardian (blog) - 4 hours ago
11.30am: Have I mentioned that you should enter the Guardian's exciting Iowa Caucus Prediction contest – help us crowd-source the Iowa caucus result and win fabulous* prizes. Including your own copy of the Ron Paul Family Cookbook, with Carol Paul's ...
Iowa Caucuses Are as Distorted as a Funhouse Mirror
Daily Beast - 11 hours ago
Howard Kurtz reports on how the crazy-quilt caucuses and the media's spin game often provide a distorted picture of the presidential race. Plus, David Sessions breaks down exactly how the caucus works. When the Iowa caucus results trickle in Tuesday ...
DES MOINES, Iowa — It's caucus eve. Do you know where your candidates are?
Washington Post (blog) - 16 minutes ago
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R) held events in Council Bluffs and Atlantic, Iowa. The former sits in Pottawattamie County, which was Romney Country in the 2008 GOP caucuses; the former Massachusetts governor took 33 percent there to ...
GOP presidential candidates make all-out, final-day push before the Iowa ...
New York Daily News - 49 minutes ago
Polls show the former US Senator from Pennsylvania, once an afterthought in the state, could take the Iowa caucus on Tuesday. POLK CITY, IOWA — The Republican presidential candidates dashed across Iowa Monday, logging hundreds of miles and shaking as ...
Iowa caucuses to be "close" race: former lt. governor
Xinhua - 13 hours ago
But according to the last poll of Iowan caucus goers released Saturday night by the Des Moines Register, Gingrich polled fourth with 12 percent of support. Romney came out on top in that poll. But he was being challenged by Texas Congressman Ron Paul, ...
Frenzied countdown to Republican Iowa caucus
ABC Online - 54 minutes ago
But a victory in Iowa can lift a sagging campaign or give a top contender an extra air of inevitability, bringing fundraising dollars, endorsements and voter support that can shape the rest of the state-by-state nominating battle. The caucus does not ...
Iowa Race Tightens in Final 48 Hours
New York Times (blog) - 7 hours ago
By NATE SILVER A new Public Policy Polling survey in Iowa, conducted Saturday and Sunday, shows a virtual three-way tie in advance of the Iowa caucuses. Ron Paul has a nominal lead with 20 percent of the vote in the poll, followed by Mitt Romney at 19 ...
Iowa caucus: What each candidate needs to do to win
St. Cloud Times - 14 hours ago
Huntsman has appeared in Iowa only for two nationally televised debates. The campaign hasn't announced any Iowa campaign stops before the Iowa caucuses, instead focusing its efforts on New Hampshire. Should he come to Iowa, his message should be that ...
Your Iowa Field Guide
Fox News - 5 hours ago
After eight months of a baffling, unprecedented Republican nominating process, it should be no surprise that the Iowa caucuses are baffling too. There are five candidates clustered within 10 points in the Real Clear Politics average for Iowa, ...
candidates reveal late strategies
CNN - 3 hours ago
By John Helton and Gabriella Schwarz, CNN Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) -- Several storylines emerged Monday on the last full day of campaigning before Tuesday's Iowa caucuses. Front-runner Mitt Romney is trying to tamp down an upstart threat from Rick ...
US: Republican Presidential Contenders Face Iowa Test
Voice of America - 3 hours ago
VOA reporters Kane Farabaugh and Jim Malone discuss Iowa Caucuses Voters in Iowa often do not crown the eventual presidential nominees for either Republicans or Democrats. But its first-in-the-nation caucuses can serve as a launchpad for political ...
Iowa caucus: Romney leads Paul as Santorum surges in polls
Vancouver Sun - 20 hours ago
3 Iowa caucuses. The Iowa Poll by the Des Moines Register newspaper, released late yesterday, shows the former Massachusetts governor with the support of 24 percent of likely Republican caucus- goers, up from 16 percent in the poll a month ago. ...
Late-surging Santorum looks to rally voters ahead of Iowa caucuses
CNN - Jan 1, 2012
Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) -- Rick Santorum started the new year riding the wave of a strong finish in the last major poll before Tuesday's Iowa caucuses and looked to rally his supporters in a series of events on Sunday. There were few surprises in ...
Iowa Caucuses lead America to Republican Nominee
WCN (WestminsterCollege Network) - 50 minutes ago
The Iowa Caucus is the one of the largest events in the state. Candidates tour all 99 counties in order to keep in the mind of Caucus voters. Tomorrow, Jan. 3, Iowans will decide their pick for the Republican GOP candidate. As of Caucus Day Eve, ...
The line on the Iowa caucuses: Romney has best odds, Santorum has the momentum
Washington Post - 20 hours ago
The Iowa caucuses are almost here! In less than 48 hours, Republicans will gather across the Hawkeye State to pick the man or woman they think should be the next president. At this point, there's not much left for the candidates — or the reporters who ...
GOP candidates make final push to secure votes ahead of Iowa caucuses
The Guardian - 3 hours ago
Republican presidential candidates fanned out across Iowa on Monday in a final bid to corral voters ahead of Tuesday's caucuses, the first contest of the 2012 election. Volunteers were pouring in from other states to help with the final push. ...
Iowa Caucuses: Ron Paul vs. the weather
The State Column - 4 hours ago
Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, is likely to finish in the top-tier of Republican presidential candidates in the Iowa Caucuses on Tuesday, January 3rd. In fact, Mr. Paul predicted a “first or second” ...
Final Iowa polls show fragmented field
Financial Times - 1 hour ago
After rising to the top of the polls in early December, Mr Gingrich's campaign has been the most damaged by one of the defining characteristics of this year's Iowa caucus campaign: a flood of dollars spent on attack television ads by outside, ...
Major GOP candidates spread out across Iowa ahead of caucus
Washington Post - 33 minutes ago
On Tuesday night, this state will hold its first-in-the-nation Republican caucuses. On Monday, six presidential candidates — including the three very different men who appear to be front-runners — all began their last dashes under Iowa's frigid ...
Santorum's Support Builds Ahead Of Iowa Caucuses
NPR - 9 hours ago
"I'm leaning toward Santorum going into the caucus Tuesday," Lee says. "We're still kind of leaning toward Bachmann and there's also, is it Perry?" "I like him, too — those three are about tied," Ehrhardt says. For Santorum to win the Iowa caucuses or ...
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