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A Primary Season First

by David Kurtz
01.08.08 | 10:28 pm

It’s the first time that four different candidates have won the Democratic and Republican races in Iowa and New Hampshire since the modern era of primaries was ushered in in 1976.

Late Update
: As the esteemed Eric Kleefeld notes, this is not correct. In 1988, Dole, Bush, Gephardt and Dukakis won the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries.

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