By Thomas BeaumontIllinois Sen. Barack Obama claimed an historic victory in Iowa's Democratic caucuses Thursday, opening the 2008 presidential nominating campaign by convincingly beating the party's national poll leader, Hillary Clinton, and onetime Iowa favorite John Edwards.Overwhelming record turnout and an influx of first-time caucusgoers helped stamp Obama the party's national frontrunner and the first African American to win the caucuses...."On this January night, at this defining moment in history, you have said what the cynics said we couldn't do," Obama, his voice hoarse but emphatic, told cheering supporters at Hy-Vee Hall in Des Moines."In lines that stretched around schools and churches, in small towns and big cities, you came together as Democrats, Republicans and independents to stand up and say that we are one nation, one people and our time for change has come," he said.

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