 On September 1, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama joined Senator Edwards to stop campaigning in Michigan and Florida, two states that haf bucked their party's nomination schedule.On January 3, 2008, in the Iowa Caucuses, the first contest of the nomination process, Edwards placed second with 29.75 percent of the vote to Obama (37.58 percent), with Clinton coming in third with 29.47 percent of the vote.On January 8, Edwards placed a distant third in the New Hampshire Democratic primary with just less than 17% (48,818 votes).