Yana Paskova - Photojournalist

U.S. Presidential Campaign Trail 2007-2009: Beginnings - the voters

(L-R) Volunteers for U.S. Presidential Hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and his rival candidate, Hillary Clinton (D-NY) place signs outside the Iowa Brown & Black Presidential Forum in North High School in Des Moines, Iowa, on Dec. 1, 2007. The forum gathered opposing democratic candidates with a month left until the Iowa caucus.
  
Ron Mattson, dresses as a pig to play the part in the Lakeland Pig Festival for pork tasting, as U.S. Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee (R-AR) tours the festival in Lakeland, Florida, on Saturday, January 26, 2008.
   
(L-R) A sign supporting U.S. Presidential hopeful Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) decorates empty audience seats after a "Meet Mike Huckabee" event in Greenville, South Carolina, on Friday, January 18, 2008; and an empty chair sits in front of an American flag after a Huckabee rally in Warren, Michigan, on January 14, 2008.
     
  
An old man adjusts his hat after spending the afternoon at a campaign stop with U.S. Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton (D-NY). The former first lady brought her husband, former President Bill Clinton, as she campaigned in Davenport, Iowa, on July 3, 2007.
   
(L-R) U.S. Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks to a crowd gathered in Chariton, Iowa, on Nov. 08, 2007; and Donald Davis, next to his wife, Alice Davis and a friend, Judy Manning, from Wayne, Iowa, listen to U.S. Presidential hopeful Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) speak at a roundtable discussion with undecided caucus-goers on December 29, 2007, in Washington, Iowa.
   
A crowd gathered at the Festhalle barn at the Amana Colonies in Amana, Iowa, listens to Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) speak on Tuesday, November 6, 2007.
     
  
Gladys Grack from Erie, Pennsylvania, cheers as U.S. Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton (D-NY) speaks at an economy rally at Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, April 01, 2008. The Senator is hoping to woo crucial to her votes in the state before its primary on April 22, 2008.
   
(L-R) A woman puts away her ID after voting in a polling station while U.S. Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee (R-AR) meets with potential supporters in Columbia, South Carolina, on Saturday, January 19, 2008; and a potential supporter of Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney (R-MA) looks through his belongings as Romney campaigns with his family in Forest City, Iowa, on July 21, 2007.
  
Potential supporters of U.S. Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton (D-NY) listen to her speak at an economy rally in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, on Monday, March 31, 2008. The Senator is hoping to woo crucial to her votes in the state before its primary on April 22, 2008.
     
  
(L-R) Actor John Voight peeks out behind the curtains, from which U.S. Presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani (R-NY) is about to enter a rally with him and former FBI director Louis J. Freeh at the Fantasy of Flight museum in Polk City, Florida, on Sunday, January 20, 2008; and an American flag sits folded on a chair backstage as U.S. Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) speaks at the Bluegrass Cafe in Tama, Iowa, on Nov. 19, 2007.
  
A security guard scans the media room after the FOX News Republican debate ends on January 10, 2008, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
  
Monette McLin, 39, a Chicago actress, (center,) cries while watching the inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States in the theater of the DuSable Museum of African-American History in Chicago, Illinois, on his Inauguration Day, Tuesday, January 20, 2009. McLin said of Obama, "That is a very inspirational man. And I need that," as a self-described "struggling" actress.