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Republican presidential hopeful, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, (55), runs in the Seven Hills 5K Road Race, in Somersworth, N.H., Saturday, May 5, 2007. (AP Photo/Jim Cole) (Jim Cole - AP)

The Democratic presidential hopeful also talked up the need for education reform and promoted a forthcoming universal health care plan.

"We intend to force our colleagues in the Senate and House to take vote after vote until we overcome (the president's) veto," Obama told a crowd of about 200 at a middle school. "I'm not going to name names, but there's at least one senator in Iowa who could be helpful."

That was an obvious reference to Grassley. The other Iowa senator is Tom Harkin, a staunch Democrat who opposes the war.

"We all have to work diligently to make sure we get the votes" to force President Bush to accept troop restrictions on new funding legislation for the war, Obama said.

He cut his day in Iowa short because of threatening weather, but also spoke to congregants at Antioch Baptist Church in Waterloo. He moved up his speaking time at the church so he could return to Chicago before a thunderstorm hit the region.

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WASHINGTON (AP) _ Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd is behind in the 2008 presidential polls, behind in the money chase, behind in organizing. Yet he says it is too soon to write him off.

"John Kerry would tell you he was at 4 percent in the poll with three weeks to go, 32 points behind Howard Dean in New Hampshire, and won the nomination," Dodd said. "Bill Clinton was at 2 percent in the polls in October of '91. Polling data at this point doesn't make a lot of difference."

The six-term senator from Connecticut added: "We're running a very aggressive, very strong campaign, and people, I think, believe that this is a time for people with experience here. On-the-job training after six years of the Bush administration _ people want people in this job that know how to do this, how to bring people together."

Dodd was interviewed on "Fox News Sunday."

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WASHINGTON (AP) _ Enthusiasm for potential presidential candidate Fred Thompson shows unease with the current GOP field, the House Republican leader said Sunday.