Obama, Huckabee win first 2008 vote
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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.
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Bloomberg - Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee was declared the winner of the Iowa's first-in-the- nation Republican presidential nominating caucus.
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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.
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Illinois Sen. Barack Obama easily defeated New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the three Democratic presidential voting events held in three states Saturday -- giving him the first bragging rights after the near-draw between the candidates among the 22 states that participated in last week's "Super Tuesday" spree of Democratic primaries and caucuses.
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Mike Huckabee turned out evangelical voters and Barack Obama captured black and young voters as both won Alabama's presidential primaries Tuesday.
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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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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Barack Obama took a big step on Thursday toward becoming the first black U.S. president as his campaign for change caught fire in Iowa and swept him past Hillary Clinton in the opening Democratic nominating contest.
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On GOP side, Huckabee wins Kan. and La. contests, leaving McCain with narrow victory in Wash.
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Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama vied for victory Thursday night in the Iowa caucuses, the first critical test in the race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. Mike Huckabee battled Mitt Romney among Republicans.
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Conservative Republican Mike Huckabee, seeking to repeat the success of another former governor from Hope, Ark., said Sunday he is taking the first step in what he acknowledged is an underdog bid for the White House in 2008.
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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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Presidential candidate John Kerry was a double winner Thursday when two Iowans &#151; both young Democratic Party activists &#151; cast the state's first votes of the 2004 election.
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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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On the eve of the first nominating  contest of the 2008 U.S. presidential race, traders on the  political prediction markets were betting on Thursday on  victories in Iowa by Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and former  Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
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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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Democratic rising-star Barack Obama became the lone African American senator, beating ultra-conservative talk show host Alan Keyes in a landslide in Illinois.
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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.