OPEKA, Kan. - Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton competed for Democratic convention delegates across three states on Saturday, locked in a marathon struggle for the party's presidential nomination after nationwide contests this week failed to produce a clear front-runner.
In the first contest of the day, NBC News declared former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as the projected winner in the Republican caucuses in Kansas. Huckabee's projected win followed a strong showing in the South earlier in the week, when the Baptist minister won four Southern states and West Virginia in Super Tuesday.
Huckabee vowed earlier in the day, during an appearance at a conference of conservative activists, to continue his shoestring campaign that has appealed to social and religious conservatives.
