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Obama sweeps to Iowa victory

Hillary Clinton finishes third

AP, Concord
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. Neither can expect it to be easy.
Obama is neck and neck in New Hampshire polls with Hillary Rodham Clinton. who finished third in Iowa but has the resources to confront him head on. Will Obama, like Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004, use his Iowa victory to catapult himself to victory in New Hampshire? Or will Hillary Clinton manufacture a turnaround like her husband did in 1992 and be the new Comeback Kid?
Huckabee faces even bigger questions. He has hardly cam-paigned in New Hampshire where a Republican contest is already in a dead heat between Mitt Romney and John McCain. He enters the state with little money and little time to mount an adequate come-from-behind surge
Iowa's results tightened the Democratic field Sens Joe Biden and Christopher Dodd dropped out shortly after the outcome was clear Thursday night. John Edwards mounted an energetic, populist campaign only to see himself repeat his 2004 second place finish in Iowa. He vowed to continue, but he trails Obama and Hillary Clinton in polls and in money
For Republicans, Huckabee's victory served to keep their contest wide open. He beat Romney by nearly 9 percentage points, a setback for the former Massachusetts governor who now faces a reinvigorated McCain. Fred Thompson was looking beyond New Hampshire to South Carolina. And Rudy* Giuliani, fading in New Hampshire, was counting on Florida and big state contests on Feb. 5.
An unpredictable factor could be Republican Ron Paul, an anti-war congressman with libertarian views whose legions of volunteers have fanned out across New Hampshire waving placards and knocking on doors in support of their dark horse candidate. Paul has raised a surprising amount of money, further complicating the political calculations in the state.
In their victory speeches, Obama and Huckabee struck similar cords and distinguished themselves from their respective fields portraying themselves as unifiers and change agents who didn't view the world in simply Republican and Democratic hues.
"You said the time has come to move beyond the bitterness and pettiness and anger that's consumed Washington," Obama told his raucous supporters, "lb end the political strategy that's been all about division, and instead make it about addition. To build a coalition for change that stretches through red states and blue states. Because that's how we ll win in November, and that's how we'll finally meet the challenges that we face as a nation.'
Huckabee, sounding some of the same economic populist themes that Democrats had often heard from Edwards, said Americans were eager for change.
"But what they want is a change that starts with a challenge to those of us who were given this sacred trust of office so that we recognise that what our challenge is to bring this country back together, to make Americans, once again, more proud to be Americans than just to be Democrats or Republicans," he said. "To be more concerned about being going up instead of just going to the left or to the right."
Money, a defining measure of candidate strength throughout 2007. turned out to be not so determinative in Iowa. Romney, a multimillionaire who pumped more than $17 million of his own money into the campaign by September, spent about $7 million on ads in Iowa to Huckabee's $1.4 million.