Romney-Gingrich Iowa Ground Campaigns Intensify in Last Days
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After a yearlong contest marked by the rise and fall of a series of candidates, the Republican presidential contenders competing in Iowa will flood corn fields and college towns with bus tours, television ads and phone calls in the final week of the U.S.’s first primary-election campaign.
The rush to reach voters on the ground marks a departure for a field largely unified by its attempts to campaign from a distance. Rather than reaching voters at town halls and pizza parlors across rural Iowa, the candidates have gotten their messages out through more than a dozen televised debates, nationally broadcast media interviews, and a multimillion-dollar ad war.