Thompson tries to stay alive in Iowa
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Actor-politician Fred Thompson is making an eleventh-hour push to convince Iowa voters he is the only real conservative in the presidential race, contrasting his ideas and record on immigration and abortion with those of his leading rivals.
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Law and Order star Fred Thompson puts himself forward as Republican candidate to succeed Bush.
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Fred D. Thompson will offer himself as a down-home antidote to Washington politics in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, running a campaign out of Nashville while promising leadership on a conservative agenda that will appeal to his party's base, advisers said yesterday.
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Presidential candidate Fred Thompson said Thursday he's a Republican who has never strayed from his conservative beliefs, a jab meant to highlight differences with chief rivals Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney.
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MIAMI ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ In choosing a tough stand against illegal immigration yesterday for his first major policy rollout, Fred Thompson seized on a pivotal issue that sets him apart from his major rivals for the Republican presidential nomination.
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After spending months testing the waters for a presidential run, Sen. Fred Thompson made his candidacy official Wednesday evening.
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With his Republican rivals jockeying for victory in New Hampshire, presidential hopeful Fred Thompson sought Tuesday to boost his support in this early voting state considered critical to his campaign.
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While Huckabee and Romney work to win the caucus, McCain, Thompson and Giuliani hope their tough talk on war and immigration can ensure a respectable third-place finish
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Former US senator Fred Thompson, a Hollywood actor who has made a career of portraying US presidents and powerful Washington politicos, said Sunday he was considering a real-life presidential bid in 2008.
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Republican presidential contenders welcomed former Sen. Fred Thompson to the race Wednesday night with humor and pointed advice that he will have to fight them for the nomination.
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Republican Fred Thompson will make his candidacy for the White House official next week and tour through the early 2008 voting states, his campaign said on Thursday.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani, a survivor of prostate cancer, tried to allay concerns about his health on Sunday after a hospital stay he attributed to a painful headache.
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Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson on Thursday shrugged off harsh criticism from James Dobson, saying he has friends who likely know the influential Christian leader and they hold him in high regard.
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MADISON, Wis. - Tommy Thompson gave a long-awaited answer Friday to his plans for life after the Bush administration. Thompson, who served as Wisconsin&#39;s governor for 14 years before heading to Washington, DC
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ON THE BUS IN IOWA, Sept. 7 -- On his second full day of official campaigning, Fred Thompson spoke at length about his health and his opinions about Iraq, Social Security, homosexuality and abortion, both in an interview with reporters and at events around the state.
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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- Elderly Americans waiting for a flu shot should be patient -- more is on the way. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson delivered the message Friday afternoon in West Des Moines.
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Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson left a trail of half-empty coffee cups and barely sipped Diet Pepsis on Sunday as he jumped into the kind of person-to-person political campaigning that voters here demand.