Iowa first step to next president
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Voters in Iowa begin the process of choosing the next president on Thursday, with Democrats Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards in a frantic scramble for the top spot in the campaign's first nominating contest.
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Republican Mike Huckabee wins in Iowa's caucuses, with Barack Obama tipped to take the Democratic race.
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Sen. Hillary Clinton placed  third in the Iowa Democratic caucus on Thursday, a big setback  for the one-time national front-runner in the first nominating  contest of the 2008 U.S. presidential election, CNN reported.
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Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton will make her closing argument to Iowa voters Wednesday evening during a televised message in which she tells them to "take the first step" toward changing the direction of the country by voting for her at the caucuses.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, the first Democrat who entered the race for president in 2008, today became the first candidate to withdraw. He said he couldn't raise enough money.
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Rasmussen Reports - All year, Iowa has been a must-win state for Barack Obama and John Edwards. Now, with just two-and-a-half weeks to go until voters finally get a say in Election 2008, Iowa is becoming more and more important to Hillary Clinton. As we noted last week and the week before, the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination is getting closer and closer.
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THE RACE: The presidential race for Democrats, Republicans in Iowa
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The race for the White House moved to New Hampshire on Friday marked by a clear call for change delivered by voters in Iowa's caucuses who backed newcomers Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee.
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Mike Huckabee is reported the Republican winner in Iowa's caucuses, the start of the 2008 US presidential race.
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Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., said Sunday he is taking the first official step toward a run for president in 2008, setting up a committee that allows him to raise money and gauge support.
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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.
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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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The arcane rules governing Thursday's Iowa Democratic caucuses will test even the most organized campaign, but mastery of the process could launch a candidate on a path to the White House.
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Some questions and answers about the Iowa caucuses:
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Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani is planning his first campaign trip to Iowa next month, a sign that he is considering competing in the early voting state where social conservatives dominate the GOP caucuses.
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Democrats Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards fought for first Thursday in Iowa's presidential caucuses, a multimillion-dollar exercise in grass-roots democracy and the initial, critical test in the campaign for the party's 2008 nomination. Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee vied for the Republican victory.
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It's more than half a year &#151; and a few snowstorms &#151; until the first votes in Iowa, yet Democratic presidential hopefuls have already captured some of the delegates critical to winning the nomination.