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Terri
01-04-2008, 07:19 AM
By DAVID ESPO and MIKE GLOVER
Associated Press
January 4, 2008

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee won the Iowa caucuses last night as the candidates move on to New Hampshire.

On the Democratic side, Obama scored 38 percent of the vote with John Edwards second with 30 and Hillary Clinton third with 29. Obama won 16 delgates with Clinton getting 15 and Edwards 14. Overall, Clinton leads with 175 delegates, including superdelegates, followed by Obama with 75 and Edwards with 46.

For the Republicans, Huckabee won with 34 percent, with 25 percent for Mitt Romney, 13 percent each for Fred Thompson and John McCain, 10 percent for Ron Paul and 3 percent for Rudy Giuliani. Huckabee scored 30 delegates and Romney got 7.

After the caucuses, Democrats Joe Biden and Chris Dodd dropped out of the race.

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