Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/suspense-builds-in-iowa-as-caucus-goers-weigh-choices Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript As Thursday's Iowa caucuses near and the nation takes its first step toward picking nominees for the 2008 presidential race, GOP and Democratic candidates made a final push to rally support and encourage voter turnout. Judy Woodruff reports from Iowa on the last-minute preparations of candidates and caucus-goers. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JIM LEHRER: Closing the deal in Iowa. Judy Woodruff has our report.SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D), New York: How's your precinct going? PRECINCT CAPTAIN: It's going well. SEN. HILLARY CLINTON: Good. Good. JUDY WOODRUFF: Hillary Clinton greeted some of her Iowa precinct captains this morning in Indianola, giving them a pep talk ahead of tomorrow evening's caucuses. The volunteers will be crucial in helping her get out the vote. SEN. HILLARY CLINTON: We're making history together, and we're going to do it tomorrow night. JUDY WOODRUFF: Clinton made her closing argument to the people of Iowa in a new, two-minute TV ad airing during newscasts throughout the state. SEN. HILLARY CLINTON: If you stand with me for one night, I will stand up for you every day as your president. I'll work my heart out to bring the country we love the new beginning it needs, and I will be ready to start on day one. JUDY WOODRUFF: Meanwhile, rival Barack Obama, buoyed by positive poll numbers, told a crowd in Davenport he's optimistic.SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D), Illinois: You have vindicated my faith. You have exceeded expectations. You have come out in the blistering heat, and you've come out on mornings like this morning. JUDY WOODRUFF: The third Democrat at the top of the polls here is John Edwards. Edwards was in Des Moines last night, rallying steelworkers at a phone bank…FORMER SEN. JOHN EDWARDS (D), Presidential Candidate: Because of what you're doing, every one of you, on Thursday night here in the Iowa, the Iowa caucus-goers are going to stand up, rise up, say, "Enough is enough." JUDY WOODRUFF: … and this morning with voters in Fairfield. JOHN EDWARDS: What I've pledged to you to do is to fight for you with everything I have against these moneyed, entrenched interests, to restore the power in this country back to you, which is where it's supposed to be, and to give you back the real Democratic Party, the White House, and America.