could make a difference in the straw poll, there's no doubt about it. This is almost like the old Daley machine, where you tend to buy votes.

It would be actually foolish for me to spend a big chunk of money in a straw poll,

Today, our campaign is really in a rather unique position because the most recent, national poll -- the CNN/Time (magazine) poll -- shows us in second place, finally beginning to emerge as the clear alternative to the front-runner,

I'm going to stay in the race. I really can't believe that any campaign, or should I say any candidate, is going to make a decision to stay in or get out on how they do in a straw poll. And I emphasize the word straw. This is a wonderful, Republican Party fund-raiser for the state of Iowa,

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

[(Fort Wayne - WANE) Under the hot September sun, the former vice president teed off at the 11th annual Quayle Center Classic.] I love it, ... Coming back home, where I began my political career in 1976, and seeing old friends that have been with me since the get-go.