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All 1,781 precincts have now reported their Democratic caucus results:
1. Senator Barack Obama (940 votes) : 37.58%
2. Senator John Edwards (744 votes) : 29.75%
3. Senator Hillary Clinton (737 votes) : 29.47%
4. Governor Bill Richardson (53 votes) : 2.11%
5. Senator Joe Biden (23 votes) : 0.93%
6. Senator Chris Dodd (1 vote) : 0.02%
Uncommitted (3 votes) : 0.14%
The results at the top are quite close to the 2004 results: Kerry at 38 percent and Edwards at 32 percent. That, however, was a presidential race with four top-tier candidates, with the support for Dean (18 percent) and Gephardt (11 percent) summing to equal the 29 percent received by Clinton in her third place finish tonight.