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Grab the chips and salsa! Don the jersey of your favorite quarterback! After all the debates, the ads, the calls, the push polls, the charges and countercharges, the first-in-the-nation contest is finally here. It's do or die tonight for candidates on both sides of the aisle. But a win in the Hawkeye State isn't necessarily the key to the White House or even Democratic or Republican Party nomination.
-- Jonathan Capehart
Population: 2.99 million
African American: 2.3%
Asian: 1.4%
Latino: 3.7%
White: 91.5%
Number of electoral votes: 7
Number of counties: 99
Number of candidates who have visited all 99 counties: 2, John Edwards and Bill Richardson.
Number of votes expected to be cast in the caucuses: Depends on the weather (frigid, but no snow predicted), a football game (Virginia Tech vs. Kansas in the Orange Bowl) and college student turnout (campuses won't be open).
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