Obama's Iowa Victory Fits Democratic Trend
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According to conventional wisdom, front-runners win presidential nominations. Democrats and Republicans who start the race for a presidential nomination with the largest amount of money and the best poll numbers are supposed to be the ones most likely to walk away with victory months later.
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Democrats have carried Iowa each of the past four presidential elections, a victory string matched by just eight other states and the District of Columbia.
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New Hampshire is where Iowa's Democratic caucus victors get ratified and where its Republican winners get stung. Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mike Huckabee headed into the Granite State on Friday as Iowa's presidential champions, one hoping to ride history's trend and the other eager to break it. Neither can expect it to be easy.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Voters in Iowa begin the process of choosing the next U.S. president on Thursday, and a new poll showed Barack Obama leading John Edwards in the Democratic nominating contest -- with Hillary Clinton falling to a potentially disastrous third.
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The Iowa caucuses are typically low-turnout affairs that are notoriously hard to predict, but this year, preelection polls accurately captured the underlying dynamics of both parties' contests. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois appealed to a change-oriented Democratic electorate, and former Arkansas ...
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The campaign of Democrat Barack Obama moved quickly Thursday to dampen any expectations raised by Michelle Obama who said this week that her husband has to win Iowa.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Voters in Iowa begin the process of choosing the next U.S. president on Thursday with two close nominating races, as a new poll showed Barack Obama leading John Edwards among Democrats -- with Hillary Clinton falling to a potentially damaging third.
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DES MOINES, Dec. 31 -- The tense and unpredictable three-way Democratic battle in Iowa got a surprising jolt late Monday when a new poll showed Sen. Barack Obama widening his lead over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former senator John Edwards.
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Obama holds slight lead over Clinton in an electorate polarized along racial lines, polls show.
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Democratic presidential  hopeful Hillary Clinton claimed on Tuesday the momentum is  shifting to her in Iowa, as rival Barack Obama fought back  against her claims that he lacks experience.
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Two rounds into the 2008 presidential race, Democratic voters appear more energized as the party battles to retake the White House from the Republicans in November, pundits said Wednesday.
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A new TIME poll shows the Democratic candidate leading Clinton and Obama in the important caucus state
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Barack Obama closes the gap on Hillary Clinton in the race to become the Democrats' presidential candidate.
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Exit poll projection gives Barack Obama lead over Hillary Clinton
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Barack Obama took the first big step to winning the Democratic nomination on Thursday with a victory in Iowa, while underdog Mike Huckabee capped a stunning political rise to beat Republican rival Mitt Romney.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Democrat Barack Obama surged to a four-point lead over John Edwards in Iowa, with Hillary Clinton fading to third just hours before the first presidential nominating contest, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Thursday.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mike Huckabee capped come-from-behind campaigns with Iowa victories on Thursday to win the first contests of the U.S. presidential nominating race, U.S. media reported.