Still, there's a question how much money really matters in early states like Iowa.
In these two early states, majority of independent voters have voted for Democrats.
Ms. TAYLOR: Well, he put a lot of effort into these early states.
In the early states, it's still true that anyone can run for president.
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As the early states came and went, the candidates tried to align themselves with the late former two-term Republican President Ronald Reagan.
Instead, Florida Democrats are being penalized by the National Party and the early states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina.
Though the early states were ordered to do so by their courts, more recent gains came through legislatures, as in New York.
Lesser known candidates with smaller war chests find a level playing field in the early states and an equal opportunity to earn support.
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Iowa and New Hampshire and the early states - Nevada, South Carolina - they even become even more important because there's a bandwagon effect.
And in these early states, the question of can you win the White House is one that's always on the minds of the activists.
What hasn't changed is that the early states in the nominating process serve a national purpose by reducing the presidential race to a human scale.
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Giuliani managed to turn pretty much any issue into a matter of national security, but his strategy of ignoring the early states to concentrate on Florida flopped.
John Edwards, who has not won any of the early states -- are pouring their energy and money into Super Tuesday, the biggest single-day showdown of the race.
And I think, you know, New Hampshire voters take their job as one of the early states so seriously, and I think David's just right that you don't want to squander that.
Bachmann spokeswoman Alice Stewart said the campaign is "working hard to get delegates in each of the early states, " but her advisers have made clear from the outset of the campaign that her hopes of winning the nomination rest on winning Iowa.
"Basically, the strategy was to make a big shows in the early states, and many polls showed him ahead in Iowa, where he came in second in the 2004 contest, hoping that the momentum created by those, at least a victory, at least one, possibly more states would give him momentum, going into the big states in February, " Schneider said.
He largely skipped the early voting states to put all his energy into Florida.
Not even newspaper endorsements in early primary states can save Gingrich from his own record.
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He hasn't yet run any TV ads, while Romney has run thousands, mainly in their early voting states.
All of the excitement around Barack Obama, and him pulling up in the polls in some early primary states.
The film will have a limited release showing in only 50 to 100 key theaters in early voting states.
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Jindal, the chair of the Republican Governors Association, says he's yet to schedule any more public appearances in early voting states.
The early primary states of California and Florida are also rich with Hispanic voters, whom the Richardson campaign is sure to woo.
Before Kirchick's report, Paul outpolled Giuliani threefold in the early primary states.
So the national party picked Nevada with it's ethnically diverse population and strong labor movement to join the exclusive group of early voting states.
"There is no question we will have the necessary funds to compete and win in the early primary states, " says McCain spokesman Matt David.
Giuliani has largely skipped the early voting states and devoted his resources to Florida and the delegate-rich "Super Tuesday" states that hold primaries February 5.
The speech honoring Reagan, who remains revered within the party, capped a month that took Paul to the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire.
His master plan for winning the election is unfolding much as he hoped to establish a stranglehold on the early primary states while gradually raising his national profile.
It takes time to build strong local campaign organizations in early primary states like New Hampshire, where many voters expect to be courted personally by the candidates.
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