11.   Home of the first party caucuses, and the New Hampshire rules apply.

12.   In the most recent poll of Republicans in Iowa, which holds the first caucuses, he did not register at all.

13.   Iowa is slated to hold the first presidential caucus next year and is considered a major initial test for a candidate.

14.   Iowa hosts the first caucuses, and New Hampshire is home to the first primary.

15.   Iowa would hold the first caucuses, as always, and New Hampshire would hold the first primary, as always.

16.   It has been especially influential in Iowa, which holds the first party caucuses in presidential election years.

17.   It used to be that the first advertisements started showing up about a year before the first caucuses and primaries.

18.   Kerry also is making plans for a January visit to Iowa, which holds the first presidential caucus.

19.   Louisiana will hold the first caucuses, beating out Iowa and New Hampshire.

20.   Nowhere is the newfound muscle, and new tactics, of religious conservatives more apparent than here in Iowa, the state that holds the first presidential caucuses.