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Congratulations! 49 more primaries to go.

By clock on January 3, 2008.

Final results of the Iowa caucuses:

Senator Barack Obama : 37.58%
Senator John Edwards : 29.75%
Senator Hillary Clinton : 29.47%
Governor Bill Richardson : 2.11%
Senator Joe Biden : 0.93%
Uncommitted : 0.14%
Senator Chris Dodd : 0.02%
Precincts Reporting: 1781 of 1781
(Percentages are State Delegate Equivalents.)

More important numbers:

Total Voter Turnout (approximate): 356,000

Percentage of total vote
24.5% Obama
20.5% Edwards
19.8% Clinton
11.4% Huckabee (R)

Biden and Dodd have quit the race.

Media pundits - catastrophic:

Frameshop: Obama And The 'Balance' Frame
With Obama's Win, What to Expect at Fox News
So Absurd
Chris Matthews' double-standard: makes Obama references like those he criticized from Kerrey
Matthews: '[L]ow 30 percent' result in Iowa for Clinton would mean 'reject[ion] ... by two-thirds' of Iowa Dems
Bennett: Obama isn't *that* kind of black
The Punditry... It Burns...
Its about Change: Edwards 2nd in Iowa and its just getting started
Strange Days

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