NBC Nightly News (Western) - Obama wins Iowa - 2008-01-03

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[0:07] The Iowa caucuses are over and we have

[0:11] two winners. NBC News projecting Barack

[0:15] Obama, a big victory on the Democratic

[0:18] side. And Mike Huckabe for the

[0:20] Republicans turning away a millionaire.

[0:23] Both men changing this race nationwide

[0:27] starting tonight here in Iowa.

[0:33] This is NBC Nightly News with Brian

[0:36] Williams.

[0:39] >> Good evening from De Moine. And if the

[0:42] voters message from the Iowa caucuses is

[0:46] to be taken literally, take everything

[0:48] you know about presumed front runners in

[0:51] the race for president 2008 and place

[0:55] it, at least for now, off to the side.

[0:58] Because Iowa, as it has in the past, has

[1:01] changed the course of American politics

[1:03] in ways we're just now coming to grips

[1:06] with. On the Democratic side, NBC News

[1:09] is projecting that when all the caucus

[1:11] goers preferences are counted up and

[1:13] tallied. Barack Obama of Illinois has

[1:17] turned away the woman everyone was

[1:19] calling the presumed front runner in the

[1:21] Democratic party, Senator Hillary

[1:23] Clinton, and pulled off a victory here

[1:26] in Iowa at the Iowa caucuses, which he

[1:29] will now take to New Hampshire and

[1:31] points south and west. On the Republican

[1:34] side, Mike Huckabe, the minister from

[1:38] Arkansas, the man who uh flew west to do

[1:42] Jay Leno's first Tonight Show back after

[1:45] the writer strike last night, flew back

[1:47] here to Iowa, has pulled off a stunner

[1:50] of a victory for his part, turning away

[1:53] not only the millionaire former

[1:55] Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, but

[1:58] a slew of Republican contenders. We have

[2:02] a whole new story here tonight. We have

[2:04] a subplot line that turnou