Biden to abandon presidential bid
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Delaware Sen. Joe Biden abandoned his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday after a poor showing in the state's caucuses.
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Republican Fred Thompson dropped out as a presidential candidate on Tuesday, ending a short-lived campaign that got off to a late start and never gathered steam.
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton announced on Monday he will step down and give up his bruising fight to convince enough Senate opponents to back him for a post they said he was ill-suited to fill.
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Democrat Tom Vilsack, the former  governor of Iowa, plans to drop his longshot 2008 bid for the  White House, campaign and party sources said on Friday.
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In a stunning decision Wednesday, John Edwards dropped out of the Democratic White House race transforming it into a straight fight between bitter rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Senator Joe Biden, on the day he officially joined the race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, may have diminished his chances by having to apologize for remarks he made about rival Barack Obama.
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Dennis J. Kucinich told a Cleveland newspaper he was quitting the presidential race and would make a formal announcement Friday.
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Mitt Romney will suspend his campaign for the Republican nomination for president, CNN said on Thursday, citing three party sources.
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Republican Rudy  Giuliani and Democrat John Edwards abandoned their failing U.S.  presidential bids on Wednesday, narrowing the race in both  parties to two main candidates ahead of next week's multi-state  round of voting.
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Democrat Tom Vilsack is abandoning his bid for the presidency after struggling against better-known, better-financed rivals
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Republican presidential hopeful Jim Gilmore gave up his bid for the White House Sunday.
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Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, an early entrant in the 2008 presidential race, is dropping his longshot bid for the Democratic Party nomination.
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Democrat Dennis Kucinich told a newspaper on Thursday he would end his race for the U.S. presidency after registering little voter support in early state contests.
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Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, an early entrant in the 2008 presidential race, is dropping his bid for the Democratic Party nomination, according to the Associated Press.
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Democrat Tom Vilsack is abandoning his bid for the presidency after struggling against better-known, better-financed rivals, a senior campaign official told The Associated Press on Friday.
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Six-term Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich has decided to drop his longshot bid for the Democratic presidential nomination after struggling for weeks, mostly without success, to draw media and voter attention.
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Mitt Romney is today expected to withdraw from the Republican race for president