Word: iowa
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Meanwhile, former senator John Edwards hoped to repeat his Iowa performance, squeezing past Clinton into second-place. He campaigned relentlessly in the closing days, crisscrossing New Hampshire around the clock, but polls showed him well behind the former First Lady...
...days since his defeat in the Iowa caucuses, Romney has mostly refrained from such confident predictions or prescriptions. Sticking with his newly prominent Olympics metaphor, he's told crowds and correspondents, "We're going to get the gold - or maybe the silver." His early-evening boast could be a sign of renewed confidence, or a sign that the campaign has determined that confidence is what the people want. With Mitt Romney's campaign, it's hard to tell...
...repeat his 2000 New Hampshire victory. But then former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney dominated the final pre-election debate, a feat he followed up with a massive turnout operation that included 100,000 phone calls to prospective voters. Romney's well-funded campaign took a big hit in Iowa on Thursday, when former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee whipped him badly, and a second loss in New Hampshire-where Romney owns a summer home- might finish...
...looking for Huckabee, a Southern Baptist preacher, to do well in Yankee New Hampshire. He spent the days leading up to the primary cooking up photo ops and retooling his Iowa-focused message for a more national audience. Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson continued to underperform their supporters' early hopes, while the libertarian contrarian Ron Paul continued to exert his narrow but intense appeal...
...Democratic race, New Hampshire voters thronged the polls just five days after a record turnout in Iowa. Election officials ferried reams of blank ballots past long lines of waiting voters just to keep up with demand. Much of the credit for the surge had been chalked up to Obamamania - but clearly more factors were at work...