Obama and Huckabee win first 2008 vote
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Barack Obama took a big step on Thursday toward becoming the first black U.S. president when his campaign for change caught fire in Iowa and swept him past Hillary Clinton in the opening Democratic nominating contest.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Republican Mike Huckabee defended a Christian-oriented television advertisement used for his presidential campaign on Wednesday as a new poll showed Democrat Barack Obama edging Hillary Clinton in Iowa.
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After spending months  buried near the bottom of a crowded 2008 Republican White House  pack, Mike Huckabee finally sees signs of life for his  bare-bones campaign.
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Mike Huckabee needed incredible turnout from evangelical voters to win Iowa. Hillary Clinton was counting on the women's vote to beat Barack Obama. Huckabee succeeded; Clinton did not. The result? Two new front-runners in the White House race have emerged heading into New Hampshire's primary.
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McCain cements GOP front-runner status with projected wins coast-to-coastDems evenly split between Clinton and ObamaDisappointing night for Romney; Huckabee surprises pundits
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The come-from-behind candidate scores an impressive win over Mitt Romney in the nation's first primary, while the Clinton-Obama race appears tighter than expected
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Mike Huckabee has surged into a virtual tie with front-runner Rudy Giuliani in the national 2008 Republican presidential race two weeks before the first contest, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
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Illinois State Senator Barack Obama, a Democrat, won the US Senate seat of retiring Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald, CNN and MSNBC reported.
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WASHINGTON - Americans cast their ballots Tuesday in the first presidential election since the Sept 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, with Republican incumbent President George W Bush and his Democratic challenger Sen.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Shotgun in hand, rising Republican candidate Mike Huckabee bagged a pheasant on Wednesday as U.S. presidential hopefuls hunted for votes just eight days before the first contest in a wide-open nomination race.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee won the Iowa Republican caucus on Thursday, surging past better-known rivals to triumph in the first nominating contest of the 2008 U.S. presidential election, U.S. media reported.
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&#8226; Sen. Barack Obama sweeps Democratic contests, giving him considerable momentum  &#8226; Sen. Hillary Clinton unfazed, continues to present herself as the most viable candidate  &#8226; Sen. John McCain's camp says former Gov. Mike Huckabee threatens only to chip away at McCain's substantial lead
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Illinois Sen. Barack Obama won the first battle of the Super Tuesday showdown when Democratic Party voters in Indonesia -- where Obama spent four years of his childhood -- picked him over Sen. Hillary Clinton.
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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee  said on Sunday he would take the first step toward a longshot  campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.
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MANCHESTER, New Hampshire  - Fresh from big wins in Iowa, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mike Huckabee said they had momentum as they swept into New Hampshire on Friday to campaign for the next prize in the U.S. presidential race.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Barack Obama took the first step to winning the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday with a victory in Iowa, while Mike Huckabee capped a stunning political rise to beat Republican rival Mitt Romney.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Former Gov. Mike Huckabee won the Iowa Republican caucus on Thursday, surging past better-known rivals to triumph in the first nominating contest of the 2008 U.S. presidential election, U.S. media reported.