Candidates Urge Voter Turnout in Iowa

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By LIZ SIDOTI
Associated Press
January 2, 2008

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Uplifting appeals largely replaced stinging insults Tuesday as Democratic and Republican candidates did the only thing left to do in Iowa races that are too close to call -- encourage supporters to vote for them.

''The polls look good, but understand this -- the polls are not enough. The only thing that counts is whether or not you show up to caucus,'' Democrat Barack Obama told a fired-up crowd of young and old packed into a high school gymnasium.

Amid murmurs of ''Amen!'' at a pizza parlor in Sergeant Bluff, Republican Mike Huckabee urged hundreds: ''Don't go alone. Take people with you. Fill up your car. Rent a van. Hijack your church's bus, whatever you've got to do to get people to the caucus who are going to vote for me.''

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