TITLE

Party Time

PUB. DATE

December 2007

SOURCE

Weekly Reader News - Senior;12/14/2007, Vol. 86 Issue 14, p4

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article reports that citizens of Iowa will choose their candidates for the 2008 presidential election in a caucus scheduled on January 3, 2008. Members of the two main political parties, Republicans and Democrats, will gather to decide which candidates they would like to run in the national election. After the caucus in Iowa, more than 20 states will hold their elections on February 5.

ACCESSION #

27748890

Tags: CAUCUS;  PRIMARIES;  POLITICAL conventions;  PRESIDENTS -- United States -- Election

 

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