Iowa Caucus

A poll of Republican caucusgoers in Iowa showed Fred Thompson trailing only former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, vaulting the former Tennessee senator ahead of former Iowa leaders Rudy Giuliani and John McCain. Romney remained in front with support from 23 percent of likely GOP caucusgoers in the telephone survey conducted Friday through Sunday by Strategic Vision […]

A survey conducted by a Republican polling firm in Iowa found that a slim majority of Iowa GOP activists would be less likely to caucus for Rudy Giuliani or John McCain in light of the candidates’ decisions to bypass the state party’s straw poll in August. The poll was conducted by Eagle Media Group, a firm […]

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani is staging a show of force in Iowa beginning this week, sending senior political staff to the leadoff caucus state to work on building the former New York mayor’s organization. For the next two weeks, Giuliani campaign manager Mike DuHaime, national political director Mark Campbell, other top political advisers and each […]

Quote of the day: You know what? If we have to, we ll hold the caucuses next Tuesday. Johnson County supervisor and Democratic activist Terence Neuzil, vowing to keep Iowa s first-in-the nation status no matter how early other states hold their primaries.

Dusky Terry is the latest in a series of aides to former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack’s presidential campaign to sign up with Hillary Clinton, the Democrat’s campaign announced today. Terry, 31, was the caucus director for Vilsack’s short-lived presidential campaign after working in Vilsack’s administration, first as a policy adviser and subsequently policy director. He also ran […]

Two new surveys of likely Iowa caucusgoers show Democrat John Edwards and Republican Mitt Romney leading their respective party’s for the 2008 presidential caucuses. The polls, touchtone responses to automatically dialed telephone numbers, were conducted by Public Policy Polling of Raleigh, N.C. The Democrat survey showed Edwards, a former U.S. senator from North Carolina, with support from […]