Hillary Clinton appeared to squeak past insurgent rival Sen. Bernie Sanders in Iowa's presidential nominating vote, according to results Tuesday, redeeming a crushing loss here in 2008 but revealing the shortcomings of a candidate who once seemed invincible.
Results from Iowa's Democratic Party, announcing 100 percent of the precincts counted, gave Clinton a whisker-thin margin: 49.8 percent to Sanders's 49.6 percent - setting up what is likely to become a prolonged contest for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The outcome from Monday's caucuses was a relief for Clinton loyalists confronted in recent weeks with the wrenching possibility that Clinton's second-chance candidacy, like her first, might falter out of the gate and never recover.
Sanders claimed a kind of victory nonetheless, since he so far exceeded expectations.
En route to New Hampshire, he said he was in the race for “the long haul.”