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		</div><p>Hillary Clinton urged voters in Iowa to start casting ballots on Thursday, more than five weeks before Election Day.</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton&#8217;s 10-city tour of Iowa brought the Democratic presidential nominee back to a state where she eked out a win in the caucuses over Bernie Sanders.</p>
<p>With her focus now on defeating Donald Trump, she was hoping that putting an emphasis on early voting could help her replicate President Barack Obama&#8217;s successful strategy in the battleground state four years ago.</p>
<p>In Des Moines, Mrs Clinton planned a speech focused on childcare challenges faced by middle-class families.</p>
<p>It is a traditionally Democratic issue that Mr Trump has taken on recently, prompted largely by interest from his daughter, Ivanka.</p>
<p>The Republican nominee was holding a rally in New Hampshire on Thursday, a day after Mrs Clinton campaigned there with Mr Sanders in an appeal to young voters.</p>
<p>While Mrs Clinton sought to broaden her appeal to voters still on the fence, Mr Trump was sticking with his strategy of focusing on the loyal base of working-class voters whose enthusiasm has driven his campaign.</p>
<p>Mr Trump has brushed off harsh critiques of his performance in the first presidential debate that have come from supporters and opponents alike.</p>
<p>However, in a nod to the concerns expressed by some Trump allies that he was insufficiently prepared, his campaign and the Republican National Committee released a &#8220;TRUMP Debate Preparation Survey&#8221; ahead of his second showdown with Mrs Clinton.</p>
<p>The survey, a gimmick intended to engage supporters online, asks whether Mr Trump should use the second debate to criticise Mrs Clinton for her policies on terrorism, economics and trade &#8211; questions sure to elicit an enthusiastic &#8220;yes&#8221; from Trump backers.</p>
<p>Absent was any inquiry about whether Mr Trump should bring up former president Bill Clinton&#8217;s infidelities, as he has repeatedly threatened to do.</p>
<p>In another reminder of how far this year&#8217;s presidential campaign has veered into baffling territory, third-party candidate Gary Johnson was being ridiculed after he was unable, in a television appearance, to name a single world leader he admired.</p>
<p>The awkward moment drew immediate comparisons &#8211; including by Mr Johnson himself &#8211; to his &#8220;Aleppo moment&#8221; from earlier in the month when he did not recognise the besieged city in Syria.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m having a brain freeze,&#8221; Mr Johnson said on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Mr Trump was also facing fresh questions on Thursday about business opportunities he explored in the late 1990s in Cuba, apparently in violation of the US embargo on the communist island.</p>
<p>The work was done by a consulting firm called Seven Arrows on behalf Trump Hotels &#038; Casino Resorts Inc, Mr Trump&#8217;s publicly traded casino company, Newsweek reported.</p>
<p>The magazine said Mr Trump reimbursed the consulting firm for 68,000 US dollars of business expenses for its Cuba work &#8211; even though neither Mr Trump nor the firm had sought a federal government waiver that would have allowed them to pursue such activities.</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton&#8217;s focus on early voting reflected the premium that Democrats are placing this year on trying to get their voters to turn out &#8211; if possible, long before November 8.</p>
<p>Although the political map favours Mrs Clinton this year, Democrats are concerned that a lack of enthusiasm will keep their voters from showing up in the same numbers that led to Mr Obama&#8217;s victories in the last two elections.</p>
<p>More than four in 10 Iowa voters cast early ballots in 2012, and Mrs Clinton&#8217;s campaign is hoping that even higher interest in early voting this year will give her a decisive edge.</p>
<p>Early voting &#8211; either by mail or with voting booths that are open before election day &#8211; has been on the rise in the United States.</p>
<p>It is a way to increase voter turnout, especially for Americans who have difficulties making it to the polls on November 8.</p>
<p>Other states have already begun in-person early voting, but Iowa is getting attention because it is the first battleground state to do so.</p>
<p>That means it is among a dozen states that are not reliably Democratic or Republican, so can sway the outcome in the state-by-state presidential vote.</p>
<p>For Mrs Clinton, the early voting strategy is key to any prospects she may have for pulling off victories in states like Arizona and Georgia.</p>
<p>Both states traditionally vote Republican in presidential races, but Democrats hope that the growing Hispanic populations and Mr Trump&#8217;s unpopularity could alter the calculus this year.</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton&#8217;s running mate, Tim Kaine, was hunkered down in North Carolina for three days of preparations ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s vice presidential debate.</p>
<p>He told reporters in Raleigh that he had been studying the first Clinton-Trump debate and practising against a dramatised version of Trump running mate Mike Pence, played in prep sessions by Washington lawyer Bob Barnett.</p>
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