Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 2008 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses took place on January 3, 2008. The Iowa Republican caucuses are an unofficial primary, with the delegates to the state convention selected proportionally via a straw poll. The Iowa caucuses mark the traditional formal start of the delegate selection process for the 2008 United States presidential ...
Tancredo had already withdrawn from the presidential race two weeks earlier and endorsed Romney, [27] but his name remained in the official list of candidates of the Iowa Republican Party. Some 120,000 Iowa Republicans attended the 2008 caucuses, a new record. About 87,000 attended in 2000; in 2004, George W. Bush ran unopposed. [28]
From January 3 to June 3, 2008, voters of the Republican Party chose their nominee for president in the 2008 United States presidential election. Senator John McCain of Arizona was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 2008 Republican National Convention held from Monday, September 1, through Thursday, September 4, 2008, in Saint Paul ...
The 2008 Iowa Democratic caucuses and 2008 Iowa Republican caucuses took place January 3 at 7 p.m. CT. [33] Candidates spent tens of millions of dollars on local television advertisements [34] and hundreds of paid staff [35] in dozens of field offices. [36] Barack Obama (D) and Mike Huckabee (R) were the eventual winners.
The 2008 Republican primaries were the selection processes by which the Republican Party selected delegates to attend the 2008 Republican National Convention. The series of primaries , caucuses , and state conventions culminated in the National Convention which was held in Saint Paul, Minnesota , September 1–4, 2008, where the delegates voted ...
His campaign also spent 2023 amassing a juggernaut structure in the state that delivered a 30-percentage point win in the Iowa Caucuses in January, the largest margin in the Republican ...
The Des Moines Register and Iowa Public Television were originally to host a Republican debate in Johnston, Iowa, on January 5, 2008. [25] The Iowa Republican Party, undecided on a date for the caucus, finally settled on January 3, two days before the planned debate.
Republican voters in Iowa turned out in record numbers for the GOP caucus, showing strong support for Ted Cruz. Marco Rubio finished a close third despite lagging well behind Donald Trump in the polls. Other candidates, like Jeb Bush, failed to gain traction with voters.