21.   Ethanol -- alcohol distilled from corn and mixed with gasoline -- is a particularly key campaign issue in Iowa, where the first presidential caucuses are held.

22.   Gore also reminded Iowans that Bradley had voted against popular ethanol subsidies and other farm issues important to the states with the first presidential caucuses.

23.   In the United States on Monday, the Iowa presidential caucuses are held.

24.   Legislators are poised to ban lying on the campaign trail in this state that draws herds of candidates long before its presidential caucuses every four years.

25.   New Hampshire and Iowa officials hustled Tuesday to preserve their status as leaders in the lineup of presidential caucuses and primaries.

26.   That was the choice for South Carolina Democrats meeting in presidential caucuses just hours after Bill Bradley quit the race.

27.   They accused Clinton of trying to gain a political advantage by timing his announcement to coincide with the Iowa presidential caucuses.

28.   Vice President Al Gore announced the conservation moves in a conference call with reporters in Iowa, which is holding its presidential nominating caucuses later this month.

29.   The first-in-the-nation presidential caucus, Tuesday in Louisiana, jumped the gun on the traditional electoral kickoff in Iowa, next Monday.