Dodd and Biden drop out of White House race
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Veteran U.S. Sens. Joe Biden  and Chris Dodd dropped out of the race for the 2008 Democratic  presidential nomination on Thursday after placing a distant  fifth and sixth, respectively, in the Iowa caucuses.
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Brownback will drop out of the 2008 presidential campaign on Friday, people close to the Kansas senator said Thursday
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Long-shot Democratic presidential  hopeful Sen. Christopher Dodd was expected to announce his  withdrawal from the White House race after a poor showing in  the Iowa caucuses, sources close to the senator said on  Thursday.
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Longshot Democratic presidential hopeful Tom Vilsack folded his 2008 White House bid Friday, the first victim of a dash for campaign cash by big-name rivals in what will likely be the most expensive US election ever.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Chris Dodd may be trailing in the polls, but he says don't count him out of the race just yet.
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The International Association of Fire Fighters is set to endorse Democrat Chris Dodd for president, turning down better-known contenders in favor of a long-standing Senate ally whose campaign has struggled to gain traction.
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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 much steam.
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Democratic candidate John Edwards abandoned his presidential bid on Wednesday, while among Republicans challenger Mitt Romney vowed to keep up his struggle to overtake newly-crowned front-runner John McCain.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack withdrew from the 2008 presidential race after encountering difficulty in raising campaign donations in competition with Democratic rivals.
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Republican Sam Brownback of  Kansas, a two-term U.S. senator whose presidential campaign  failed to draw money or widespread support from an intended  base of religious conservatives, dropped out of the 2008 White  House race on Friday.
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Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd on Saturday criticized rivals John Edwards and Hillary Rodham Clinton, who were overheard discussing among themselves their hope of limiting the number of Democrats in presidential debates.
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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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Screen star and former Republican senator Fred Thompson Tuesday quit the White House race after fizzling in the early nominating contests.
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Bloomberg - Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut announced that he will seek the 2008 presidential nomination for the Democratic Party.
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Republican Sam Brownback of  Kansas, a two-term conservative U.S. senator whose presidential  campaign failed to draw money or garner much attention, dropped  out of the 2008 White House race on Friday.
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Democrat John Edwards abandoned his  presidential bid on Wednesday and Republican Rudy Giuliani was  expected to do the same, narrowing the field in both parties to  two main candidates ahead of next week's big multi-state  nominating contest.
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Senator John Edwards quits race to become candidate after consistently trailing in third