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Iowa Republicans have their quadrennial straw poll Saturday in Ames, allowing anyone with $25 to express his or her preference for president — five months ahead of the first-in-the-nation caucuses.

Barack Obama is more than six weeks away from assuming the presidency, and the next Iowa caucuses are more than three years away, but a national poll out Friday suggests that former Arkansas Gov. Mike ...

Issues most important to Iowa voters dominated Wednesday's debate between the GOP presidential candidates. The debate was to focus on "issues Iowans say they still want to know more about," moderator ...