11.   Last month, he visited Iowa, site of presidential caucuses less than two years from now, to raise money for a GOP congressman.

12.   Louisiana Republican Party leaders plan to authorize a presidential caucus early next year that would be held ahead of the traditional opening volleys in Iowa and New Hampshire.

13.   No presidential candidate has fared well in the first-in-the-country presidential caucuses of Iowa without supporting the tax break.

14.   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.

15.   Some Iowa Republicans visited Austin last week to beg our Gov. George W. Bush to enter their presidential caucuses next February.

16.   Take those Republican presidential caucuses held in Iowa the other day.

17.   The Clinton economic summit is officially nonpolitical, but a similar event was recently conducted in Iowa, site of the first presidential caucuses.

18.   When it comes to the Iowa Republican presidential caucuses, Steve Forbes may have spent the most money, and Bob Dole may have corralled the most elected officials.

19.   But Gore was in Iowa, site of the presidential caucuses less than two weeks hence.

20.   Candidates in both parties have put in place aggressive campaign organizations ahead of the first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses here early next year.