USA: Republicans in Iowa cast votes for their preferred presidential candidate, the start of an eight month long campaign to select the nominee who will take on Barack Obama in the November election

Record ID: 346451

  • Title: USA: Republicans in Iowa cast votes for their preferred presidential candidate, the start of an eight month long campaign to select the nominee who will take on Barack Obama in the November election
  • Date: 4th January 2012
  • Summary: CLIVE, IOWA, UNITED STATES (JANUARY 03, 2012) (REUTERS) ***CONTAINS SOME FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** IOWA RESIDENTS REGISTERING TO VOTE IN THE IOWA CAUCUS PEOPLE ON QUEUE TO REGISTER IOWA RESIDENTS REGISTERING TO VOTE PEOPLE HOLDING SIGNS SUPPORTING THEIR CANDIDATE WIDESHOT VOTERS SEATED AND LISTENING TO SPEECHES BY SURROGATE SPEAKERS OF THE CANDIDATES (SOUNDBITE) (English)
  • Embargoed: 19th January 2012 12:00
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  • Location: Usa, Usa
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA3REBWTSZHUOJWTBZF3FTP9YCH
  • Story Text: Iowa Republicans cast the first votes of the 2012 White House campaign on Tuesday (January 03, 2012), with Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul in a high-stakes battle to win the party's kick-off nominating contest.
    Voters gathered in schools, libraries and other public spots across the state to render judgment in the frequently shifting Republican race to pick a challenger to President Barack Obama in the November 6 election.
    At one well-attended voting precinct in suburban Des Moines, the 7 Flags Events Center, a group of 637 people cast their ballots. Mitt Romney emerged as the favorite in that particular precinct with 239 votes across the two voting districts within the West Des Moines jurisdiction. Rick Santorum received 133 votes and Ron Paul had 105 votes. Rounding the field, Newt Gingrich had 72 votes, Rick Perry had 67, and Michelle Bachmann had 18 votes. Jon Huntsman, who did not campaign in Iowa, received two votes, and one voter expressed no preference.
    Perry dropped by the precinct center in Clive, Iowa to shake some hands and campaign for a few 11th hour votes.
    "This election is not about me; it's about you. It's about our children. It's about our grandchildren. And it's about having a President of the United States who respects the constitution of this country, who understands that we must pass a balanced budget amendment to the United States constitution and do it as soon as we can," he said.
    The statewide results of the Iowa Caucus were still to be tabulated and announced by the state Republican party later in the evening.
    The event is the culmination of months of campaigning in Iowa, and starts a frenzied schedule that will include six debates in January and three more state contests -- on January10 in New Hampshire, January 21 in South Carolina and January 31 in Florida.
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