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...Iowa is famous both for winnowing both parties' fields - and for nudging dark horses into the top tier. The contest has lifted, for the moment at least, former Arkansas governor Huckabee into the top ranks of the Republican race, as voters warmed to his downhome delivery and easy sense of humor. Iowa could also deliver a better-than-expected evening for Arizona Senator John McCain, who was given up nearly for dead a few months ago yet is now poised - but not guaranteed - to come in third in the GOP contest, behind Romney and Huckabee. (In another sign that...
...hear Mike Huckabee tell it on the trail, tonight's Iowa caucus is about so much more than just his own political future. It is a contest that will determine whether or not the American dream continues to flourish and whether or not money still controls the system. "If America can elect me as President, then it means the dreams of this country can still come true for anybody," he told an overflow crowd, this afternoon, at his final campaign stop here...
...comes in second, however, he risks being sidelined in the Republican contest by the coming fight between Romney and John McCain in New Hampshire on January 8, which will likely carry over to the Michigan primary on January 15. A second place finish for Huckabee also raises the unflattering specter of another evangelical minister, Pat Robertson, who placed a surprise second in the Iowa Republican caucus in 1988, only to have his presidential campaign peter out soon after...
...noon event, Huckabee attempted to put the contest in some perspective. "We don't have to finish first here for us to feel like we have been successful," he told reporters. "But if we finish first here, I think we have exceeded everyone's expectations, and we have certainly exceeded all of the sort of conventional wisdom standards of what it's supposed to look like if you have been outspent...
...wins scramble the presidential contest in both parties. On the Democratic side, Obama now becomes the frontrunner going into New Hampshire. Clinton's loss raises the stakes for her in the Granite State, where she holds a slim lead in the polls. And the results throw a dark shadow over the campaign of Edwards, who has never had the strength in New England that he had on the prairie...