Her campaign signaled this week that Bachmann intends to dial back her efforts in the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire, putting even greater pressure on the candidate to perform well in the leadoff caucus state.
While Sharpton was a colorful and eloquent figure on the campaign trail -- often standing out at party debates -- he failed to win a state primary or caucus.
While senators are in Washington, their days are scheduled in fifteen-minute intervals: staff meetings, interviews, visits from lobbyists and home-state groups, caucus lunches, committee hearings, briefing books, floor votes, fund-raisers.
When is your state's caucus or primary?
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Add that resume to his geographic advantage (he is the only candidate from the West, and Nevada is conveniently an early caucus state next year) and his Hispanic heritage (his mother is Mexican), and one can see Richardson increasing in stature as a candidate.
Miller has the official backing of more than 100 state and local elected officials and the unofficial backing of his party's caucus in the state Legislature.
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Republican state officials moved the caucus from March to January to try to attract national attention and make their caucus matter.
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He brought credentials as a former chairman of the state's Legislative Black Caucus and a member of the Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association to the Senate race.
Gore, campaigning in Michigan, a state with a March 11 Democratic Caucus, said that Bradley is a Johnny-come-lately on school reform.
What percentage of the people in your state typically participate in a primary or caucus?
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Latinos make up about a quarter of the state's population and 14 percent of caucus participants, those polls found.
And an increasingly assertive Hispanic caucus, in an increasingly Democratic state, also seems sure to demand better schools and health care for the people it represents, who currently lag far behind the Anglos on any social indicator you care to name.
"The Iowa caucus results have convinced growing numbers of Granite State voters that Obama can really go all the way, " CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said.
Caucus lunches work members on both sides into a state of pep-rally fervor.
All eyes are on Iowa as the presidential candidates spend Wednesday crisscrossing the state, in a last-minute effort to win over caucus goers before the first-in-the-nation caucuses Thursday.
The number of Latino Republicans in the state legislature has risen from one to four, and the Republican caucus in the Assembly has elected a Latino, Robert Pacheco, as its new leader.
Mr Gingrich's victory means that three different candidates have won the first three nominating state-by-state contests - Mr Santorum narrowly beat Mr Romney in the Iowa caucus, while Mr Romney claimed the New Hampshire primary.
Obama was leading Clinton in the caucus vote 56 percent to 44 percent with 38 percent of the state counted, party officials said.
Seidemann argued that was too much since their activities, according to the court, included attending a convention that officials described as a "political caucus, " and opposing legislative efforts to charge out-of-state tuition to illegal immigrants.
He plans to caucus for Obama but will be spending his holidays at home, out of state.
Now the Democrats are front-loading the system even more: In 2004 both the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary will be held in January, with other state contests coming fast and furious in early February.
Now the Demo-crats are front-loading the system even more: In 2004 both the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary will be held in January, with other state contests coming fast and furious in early February.
Political experts, however, say it will be hard for McCain to gather strength under the caucus system, in which voters convene in 2, 100 precinct meetings across the state to signal their preferences.
She gave her own televised tea-party response to Mr. Obama's 2011 State of the Union address, a moment that crystallized her distinctness from others in the Republican House caucus but also opened her to jokes on late-night TV.
Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA), who is a member of the GOP Doctors Caucus with Burgess and also is amenable to the idea of per-person caps, echoed the state issue.
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