Word: caucus
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Political analysts said this year has seen the largest media and commercial attention in Iowa and they expect the caucus turnout will be high...
When the returns from the Iowa caucus roll in tonight, Gary Warren Hart--or Hartpence, if you prefer, the 51-year-old ex-Colorado senator--will have beaten Donald Duck handily. But he'll be lagging behind most of the rest of the Seven Dwarfs in the country's first test of political strength...
After what for some has been years of campaigning, the Iowa caucus will narrow the field of candidates by giving media attention and momentum to the winners, while pushing others out of the race...
Though polls show Missouri Rep. Richard Gephardt leading in the Democratic race and Kansas Sen. Bob Dole leading in the Republican party, the estimated 20 percent of caucus voters who are as yet undecided will cast the crucial votes in tonight's caucus...
...estimated 1.6 million voters who will participate in the caucus, attendance will be decisive in the results of the straw poll. A low turnout will help Dukakis, who has maintained fairly constant support, while a large turnout will hurt him, because a surge of enthusiatic voters could come to the polls in support of Gephardt, Murphy said...