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Article: News Analysis: Implications of first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses
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- January 4, 2008
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News Analysis: Implications of first-in-the-nation Iowa
caucusesBy Yang Qingchuan
DES MOINES, the United States, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- In a
dramaticway, two leading candidates posing as "Washington outsiders"
are declared winners of the Iowa caucuses for both major political
parties, according to preliminary results of the first battle of the
2008 presidential race held here Thursday night.
Senator Barack Obama and former Arkansas governor Mike
Huckabeehave emerged as the victors in Iowa Thursday, winning the
heavily contested presidential caucuses. The results show that the
strategy of Obama and Huckabee in Iowa worked very well.
In a too-close-to-call contest like the Iowa caucues, voter ...