Iowa Republicans prepared to cast the first votes of the 2012 presidential contest tonight, marking their choice for a candidate to challenge President Barack Obama in November.

The 2012 Republican presidential race heated up as latecomer Texas Governor Rick Perry formally announced his candidacy and Iowans weighed in for the first time on their expanding field of presidential hopefuls, picking US Representative Michele Bachmann as their top choice for the party’s nomination.

SNOW shovels, big print doorknob hangers and supermarket sandwiches may be the best investments Hillary Clinton will ever make.

Thursday is a critically important date in the 2008 US presidential race, Evan Thomas and Richard Wolffe look at Iowa’s history as a graveyard for front runners and a launching pad for long shots.

REPUBLICAN presidential hopefuls faced off in Iowa on Wednesday three weeks before the State decides on the Republican presidential candidate for the 2008 election.

Barack Obama has edged ahead of national front-runner Hillary Clinton in Iowa’s Democratic nomination race, a poll showed today.

Broward County officials in Florida are questioning how many of the 58,000 absentee ballots they sent out actually reached voters.

DEMOCRATIC presidential candidates opened their sprint to the New Hampshire primary yesterday with newly minted front-runner John Kerry pitching his experience and John Edwards laying claim to electricity in a contest thrown wide open by the leadoff Iowa caucuses.