Obama and Huckabee win first 2008 vote
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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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Thursday night's victories for  Republican Mike Huckabee and Democrat Barack Obama in the Iowa  presidential caucuses will bring increased attention to the  candidates' trade proposals as they head off to New Hampshire  for round two of the primary season.
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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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Presidential hopeful Barack Obama won the endorsement Saturday of U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson, a popular moderate in largely Republican Nebraska who said he believes Obama has ability to bridge the partisan divide and to carry Democratic candidates across the country to victory in 2008.
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Senator Barack Obama was lifted to victory by a high turnout. On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee defeated the better funded Mitt Romney.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - One-time unknown Mike Huckabee capped a stunning political rise to defeat Mitt Romney in Iowa on Thursday and win the first contest of the Republican U.S. presidential nominating race.
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Talk about close. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama each got 6,001 votes in Syracuse in the state primary, according to preliminary Board of Elections results.
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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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Barack Obama, an Iowa winner seeking New Hampshire spoils, faced stepped-up criticism Friday from Democratic rivals now doubly determined to block his rise in the 2008 presidential race. Republican Mike Huckabee claimed momentum for a hurried five-day primary campaign.
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Landslide margins among black voters fueled Barack Obama to his win Saturday in South Carolina's Democratic presidential primary, allowing him to overcome the edge that Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards had among whites.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Illinois Senator Barack Obama defeated New York Senator Hillary Clinton in Georgia's primary, networks projected, gaining the first victory on the biggest day of voting in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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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.
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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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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee  won the Louisiana Republican primary on Saturday, notching up  another Southern victory in his bid to become the party's  presidential candidate in the November general election, CNN  projected early Sunday.
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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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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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The first people to cast ballots in New Hampshire favored Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Barack Obama.