Is it buyer's remorse time already?
Forget the ads, the weather, and all those back-and-forth attacks -- the Republican caucuses in Iowa will come down to thousands of small pieces of paper.
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad nicely summed up the stakes of the Ames Straw Poll this week during a television appearance.
Republican leaders meeting in Des Moines on Saturday were hoping to close the book on a bitter primary battle for governor that pitted conservative-against-conservative in a struggle for control of the Republican Party.
A record number of Republican and Democratic voters turned out to caucus in Iowa Thursday, as stories poured into CNN about crowded homes, firehouses and schools.
I-Reporter Kathy Barger describes her experience at a caucus in Walnut, Iowa.
Primary chaos
updated: Wed Oct 17 2007 19:11:00
Can't wait for the primaries? Don't worry. As CNN's Tom Foreman reports, states keep moving their dates up.
The Iowa Republican Party will hold its caucus January 3 to beat other states' rush to move up their primaries in the presidential nomination process.