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Video: Iowans explain their decision

Video (3min 17sec) Filmmaker Kat Keene Hogue travels to Iowa to ask caucus voters one simple question: "What decided your vote?"
Candidates make last appeal for votes

Outcome of Iowa caucus vote remains difficult to predict, but Mitt Romney is already going after Obama

Republican presidential nomination 2012 27min ago

New Hampshire primary: Mitt Romney favourite as rivals jostle for runner-up

10 Jan 2012: Lingering doubts about frontrunner on display in midnight vote at Dixville Notch where two out of six vote Romney
Jon Huntsman 9hr 10min ago

Jon Huntsman hopes for late surge in moderate New Hampshire

10 Jan 2012: Republican presidential candidate aiming to take advantage of perceived extremism of some of his rivals
Mitt Romney 14hr 13min ago

Mitt Romney's 'firing people' blunder offers gift to rivals on eve of primary

9 Jan 2012: Republican frontrunner's statement that 'I like being able to fire people' likely to be seized on in attack ads
Republican presidential nomination 2012 21hr 57min ago

Newt Gingrich takes revenge on Mitt Romney in bitter Republican debate

9 Jan 2012:
Frontrunner in GOP race to take on Barack Obama comes under attack in New Hampshire
Mitt Romney 1 day ago

New Hampshire primary: predictions and scenarios

8 Jan 2012:
Ewen MacAskill looks at how the US Republican candidates might fare on Tuesday and what the implications are

Newt Gingrich

Pugnacious former Speaker of the House who clashed with Clinton, now attempting a political comeback
Mitt Romney

Once a moderate GOP governor of Massachusetts, recasting himself as conservative business champion
Ron Paul

The 76-year-old congressman's libertarian policies have made him an unlikely rock star of the right
Rick Perry

Mixes rock-ribbed Southern conservatism with 10 years experience as a successful governor of Texas
Michele Bachmann

Flame-throwing social conservative from Minnesota and Tea Party darling who thrives on controversy
Jon Huntsman

Former governor of Utah and Obama's ambassador to China, regarded with suspicion by many in the GOP
Rick Santorum

Renowned as an unbending right-winger, the former senator suffered crushing election defeat in 2006

Iowa caucus results

Our live updating primary and caucus page shows you the full results from Iowa and tells you everything you need to know about the state and its voting history

New Hampshire primary - live: Mitt Romney fends off attacks

Live 9 Jan 2012, 23:41 GMT:
Mitt Romney leads in the New Hampshire GOP primary as Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich attack his record
Mitt Romney battered but not bruised by flurry of attacks in GOP debate

8 Jan 2012, 16:00 GMT:
The second GOP debate in New Hampshire saw Mitt Romney's rivals sharpen their attacks – but not enough to damage him

Making election coverage more useful

Jay Rosen and Amanda Michel: We invite you to help refresh the media's tired templates of campaign coverage to address issues people really care about

Rick Perry's election evolution: versions 1.0 through 4.0

28 Dec 2011, 22:54 GMT:
A handy month-by-month guide to the, er, evolution of the Texas governor from squinty executioner to goofily devout evangelical
BREAKING: Mitt Romney is kind of awkward | Ana Marie Cox
28 Dec 2011, 19:37 GMT

Rick v Rick: Perry earmarks Santorum for attack ad treatment | Paul Harris

29 Dec 2011, 22:42 GMT:
Paul Harris: 'Wink Taxandspend' narrates as Perry goes after Santorum – which means the Pennsylvania senator has truly arrived
Mitt Romney banks on New Hampshire | Paul Harris
22 Nov 2011, 23:38 GMT

Does Mitt Romney have South Carolina wrapped up?

Kyle Leighton: The threat from the conservative bloc has yet to materialise, and the numbers look good. Right now, everything's coming up Romney
Michele Bachmann: end of a presidential dream

Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachman was never able to win over the Republican establishment, and never recovered from her HPV gaffe
Ron Paul: racist newsletter scandal won't go away

Benji Sarlin: Ron Paul has insisted he knew nothing of a racist newsletter published under his name in the 80s and 90s. But he hasn't offered a convincing explanation – and that could hurt him in Iowa

GOP debate: Gingrich tells Romney to 'drop the pious baloney' - video

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich criticises former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in a TV debate in Concord, New Hampshire

The latest news and comment from our team of reporters, writers and editors in the US

suzyji: Canada sees tar sands opponents "jet-setting celebrities" with a "radical ideological agenda". Agree? http://t.co/EgT28Qg0 #eg
about 5 hours, 27 minutes ago
Busfield: MT @ralphDrussoAP In last 9 meetings between Bama & LSU team that led at HT has won 2. Feels like we're going to make it 3-10 @GdnUSsports
about 5 hours, 43 minutes ago
paulxharris: The Obama team must be looking at the way #Gingrich is going to go after #Romney via his time at Bain and taking very detailed notes. #GOP
about 5 hours, 58 minutes ago

Ana Marie Cox

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Gary Younge

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Suzanne Goldenberg

Suzanne Goldenberg is the US environment correspondent of the Guardian and is based in Washington DC. Follow her on Twitter @suzyji
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Oliver Burkeman

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