Candidates making final pushes for Iowa votes
December 30, 2007 Iowa will give some crucial momentum and eliminate the last hopes of others.
On the Democratic side, the race is too close to call with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards virtually tied in the latest polls. The race is so close that on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Clinton seemed to go out of her way to lower expectations.
John Edwards was campaigning non-stop, taking his populist message on the road for 36 straight hours.
"The biggest corporations have record profits but at what price? The price is the destruction of the middle class," Edwards told voters.
Senator Obama seemed to indicate he was worried about Edwards's last minute momentum.
"Part of the problem John would have in the general election is that the issues that he's talking about now are not the issues he talked about four years ago," Obama said.
On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee is in the lead, and he is counting on his evangelical base, which can make up as much as 40 percent of caucus-goers. But, Huckabee's rise in the polls has prompted presidential candidate Mitt Romney to unleash a steady series of attack ads which may have eroded Huckabee's lead.
"Maybe you have another word for it, but in Arkansas, we have only one word for it. We kept it simple. We call it dishonest," said Mike Huckabee.
Romney's ads have gone after Huckabee in Iowa, and he has been airing ads against John McCain in New Hampshire. Romney defended the ads Sunday.
"It's entirely appropriate in the political process to point out differences on important issues, but I don't think you have to make it a personal attack," said Romney.
