Iowa Caucus
Date: 1/4/2012 Album ID: 1390006
Photos by Associated Press
News photos from around the world, Jan. 4, 2012, including coverage of the Iowa caucus.
Technician Richie Beanan irons the American flag as he prepares the stage for the caucus night rally for Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, in Des Moines, Iowa, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Voters debate during a caucus of precinct 42 near Smithland, Iowa, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Texas Rep. Ron Paul and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum shared the straw poll ballot with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann in a caucus race as jumbled as any in the 40 years since Iowa gained the presidential campaign lead-off position. (AP Photo/Dave Weaver)
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A woman enters a caucus site at Washington Middle School in Dubuque, Iowa, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Telegraph Herald, Jessica Reilly)
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Voters debate during a caucus of precinct 42 near Smithland, Iowa, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Texas Rep. Ron Paul and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum shared the straw poll ballot with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann in a caucus race as jumbled as any in the 40 years since Iowa gained the presidential campaign lead-off position. (AP Photo/Dave Weaver)
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Republican presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, center, looks over Iowa Republican presidential caucus returns with campaign staff in his hotel room Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012, in Johnston, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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Ken Mertas, Chairman of the Menona County Democrats looks up caucus results Tuesday Jan 3, 2012 in Onawa, Iowa.  Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum are running neck and neck in the Iowa caucuses. (AP Photo/Dave Weaver)
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Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, surrounded by his children, embraces his wife Karen as he enters his victory party Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012, in Johnston, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, greets supporters his caucus night rally in Des Moines, Iowa, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is hugged by his wife Ann during a Romney for President Iowa Caucus night rally in Des Moines, Iowa, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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Republican presidential candidate former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks during his caucus night rally in Des Moines, Iowa, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., addresses her supporters at her caucus party at the Marriott in West Des Moines, Iowa, after finishing sixth in the Iowa Caucuses Tuesday night Jan. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/The Des Moines Register, Justin Hayworth)
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Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry gets a hug from a supporter after making remarks on caucus night on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012, in West Des Moines, Iowa.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry gets ready for an interview during a caucus night watch party Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012, in West Des Moines, Iowa.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. embraces her mother, Jean LaFave, after announcing that she will end her campaign for president, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012, in West Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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Carl Groom, of Fancy Farms in Plant City, Fla., sprays his strawberries with water to help protect them from freeze damage Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012.  Temperatures overnight in central Florida dipped into the 20's. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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Michael Len Plumadore is escorted out of  Fort Wayne Allen County Courthouse on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 in Fort Wayne, Ind.  An Indiana magistrate entered a not guilty plea for Plumadore, 39, who is accused of bludgeoning and dismembering Aliahna Maroney-Lemmon.9, on Dec. 22.   According to a probable cause affidavit, Plumadore told police that he repeatedly hit Aliahna in the head with a brick, chopped up her body with a hack saw, stashed her head, hands and feet in the trailer where he lived and dumped her other remains nearby. He was charged Friday with murder, abuse of a corpse and removing a dead body from the scene.  (AP Photo/The Journal-Gazette, Laura J. Gardner)
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Gamal Mubarak, son of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak arrives at a court house in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012. Mubarak is charged with complicity in the killing of more than 800 protesters in the crackdown on a popular uprising that forced him out of office on Feb. 11, 2011. The two sons, Alaa and one-time heir apparent Gamal, face corruption charges in the same case. (AP Photo/Mohammed al-Law)
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Nancy Blanco and her husband Arturo Carreon comforted their two children, Ashley Carreon,12, and  Josey Lynn Carreon,13, after being reunited with them at Dean Porter Park in Brownsville,Texas Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012. The park is across the street from Cummings Middle School. A 15 year-old student was shot and killed by Brownsville police at the school  after he was seen brandishing a weapon inside the school. (AP Photo/The Brownsville Herald, Brad Doherty)
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In this Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 file photo, 15-year-old Sahar Gul, is carried into hospital in Baghlan north of Kabul, Afghanistan. According to officials in northeastern Baghlan province, Gul's in-laws kept her in a basement for six months, ripped her fingernails out, tortured her with hot irons and broke her fingers _ all in an attempt to force her into prostitution. Police freed her last week after her uncle called authorities.  Horrific images of Sahar, bruised and bloodied, captured on video, transfixed Afghanistan and set off a storm of condemnation. President Hamid Karzai set up a commission to investigate, and his health minister visited her bedside at a Kabul hospital. The in-laws have been arrested _ they deny abusing her _ and a warrant has been issued for her husband, who serves in the Afghan army. (AP Photo/Jawed Basharat, File)
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Dagmar Havlova, the widow of Czech President Vaclav Havel, center, is helped from a grave-digger as she puts the urn with the Havel's ashes to the family tomb at the Vinohrady Cemetery in Prague Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012. Vaclav Havel died Dec. 18, 2011 at age 75. (AP Photo/CTK, Roman Vondrous) SLOVAKIA OUT
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