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...Bush is, most emphatically, not a "head" guy. "But it's a head decision to hew close to his legacy," says Ayers. "All you have to do is look at the approval rating of the President among Iowa Republicans" - it stands at a remarkably high 64% - "and, well, an analyst looking at how to climb back into first could make that decision pretty quick...
...polls are too tight right now to predict who will win Iowa. But be sure that come tomorrow night, all three speeches will be written. And how they're delivered may tell the tale come New Hampshire...
...Breaking all previous records, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards have spent tens of millions of dollars in Iowa, hiring hundreds of paid staffers and today offering rides and babysitting, even snow shovels, to get out the vote. Yet it remains anyone's guess who will come out on top when the votes are counted later this evening...
...Republican side, where turnout is in general expected to be lighter and the field more spread out, every vote will count. Huckabee has courted evangelical voters, home schoolers and right to lifers since entering the race a year ago. Romney has made a more traditional appeal to Iowa's economic and social conservatives, and is expected to organize as many as 7,000 members of the Mormon Church who are expected to attend the caucuses. The entire GOP field has tussled over immmigration and how to combat it in a state where the issue tops GOP voters list of concerns...
...Iowa is famous both for winnowing both parties' fields - and for nudging dark horses into the top tier. The contest has lifted, for the moment at least, former Arkansas governor Huckabee into the top ranks of the Republican race, as voters warmed to his downhome delivery and easy sense of humor. Iowa could also deliver a better-than-expected evening for Arizona Senator John McCain, who was given up nearly for dead a few months ago yet is now poised - but not guaranteed - to come in third in the GOP contest, behind Romney and Huckabee. (In another sign that...