Obama and Huckabee win in Iowa

12.37.47pm UTC (GMT +0000) Fri 4th Jan 2008

Senator Barack Obama

Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee both upset the established political order in the United States winning the Iowan Caucasus

Obama took 37.6% of the vote, Edwards was second with 29.8% and event more amazingly Hilary Clinton was only third on on 29.5%. Bill Richardson came fourth with 2.1%.

Huckabee took 34% of the vote compared to Romney's 25%. Fred Thompson and John McCain were battling it out for third position, Ron Paul came in fifth and Rudy Giuliani was a very distant sixth.

Next Tuesday will see New Hampshire hold it's Primary, it will be very interesting to see what happens there.