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While insiders spent time recently thinking about what has made Obama’s campaign successful, most talk of the McCain campaign more was about its missteps than its successes.

CARROLL — With rich Catholic and Democratic traditions, but growing social conservative and evangelical demographics, Carroll County, the economic hub of west-central Iowa, can be considered something of a bellwether for the Hawkeye State in today’s election.
As of last Friday, Carroll County had 14,969 registered voters: 5,310 Democrats, 3,155 Republicans, 6,499 no party voters, and [...]

Palin told those gathered from the tri-state area of Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin that for too long special needs children in America have been “set apart and maybe have felt excluded.”

A new robocall in Iowa and several battleground states from the campaign of Republican presidential nominee John McCain uses a quote from Democrat Barack Obama’s former rival for his party’s nomination, Sen. Hillary Clinton.
In the recording, Clinton praises McCain and criticizes Obama on the subject of experience. The former first lady was quoted when she [...]

NBC Political Director Chuck Todd said the Republican Party of Iowa was in disarray, which could be summed up by the “lack of a challenge they’ve given to the usually vulnerable Tom Harkin.”

As if mirroring the anticipated record turnout for this year’s general election, over 56,000 middle and high school students from 445 classrooms across the state participated in this year’s mock election – 5,000 more students than in 2004.
The Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama won the election with 32,552 votes (58 percent of the total vote), [...]

As Palin, the GOP vice presidential candidate, addressed a crowd estimated at 10,000 at Hy-Vee Hall a week ago, Keeley Sinnard was standing behind the Alaska governor — seeing the event in the same way Palin did.

Democrat Barack Obama has widened his lead over Republican John McCain in Iowa according to the latest Des Moines Register Iowa Poll.
Obama, an Illinois senator, was the choice of 54 percent of likely voters, while McCain, an Arizona senator, was the choice of 37 percent.
The poll of 814 likely voters, taken Tuesday through Friday by [...]

Returning to where it all began for his presidential campaign, Democrat Barack Obama urged a crowd of 25,000 in Des Moines today to keep working for the last four days of the campaign to take back the White House.

ANALYSIS: With only days left before voters head to the polls to choose the next president, both major-party candidates are still spending time and money in Iowa, but the state was much more hotly contested four years ago.