McCain Defeats Romney in Fla.
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Hard-fought victory over Mitt Romney makes McCain the clear front-runner in a two-man presidential nomination race.
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Sen. John McCain won the Wisconsin  vote to select a Republican presidential candidate on Tuesday,  moving closer toward locking up the party's nomination after  his leading rivals bowed out of the race, U.S. media projected.
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney  won the Republican presidential nominating contest in Nevada on  Saturday, Fox News projected.
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Florida's presidential primary is the first test of how Republicans John McCain and Mitt Romney might fare in a large and hugely diverse battleground state.
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Sen. John McCain won the Wisconsin vote to select a Republican presidential candidate on Tuesday, moving closer toward locking up the party's nomination after his leading rivals bowed out of the race, U.S. media projected.
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MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 8 -- Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the early Republican front-runner whose campaign imploded last summer, handily won the New Hampshire primary Tuesday, dealing former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney his second loss in the GOP nomination contest.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Mitt Romney ended his presidential campaign today, clearing the way for John McCain to seal the Republican presidential nomination.
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Arizona Sen. John McCain pulled out a win Saturday in South Carolina's Republican presidential primary, edging former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee by 3 percentage points in nearly complete returns and easily outrunning the rest of the GOP field.
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John McCain scored a hard-fought win in Florida's presidential primary on Tuesday, seizing the front-runner's role in a heated Republican race and possibly ending one-time favorite Rudy Giuliani's White House bid.
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the Republican presidential nominating contest in Nevada on Saturday, Fox News projected.
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On GOP side, Huckabee wins Kan. and La. contests, leaving McCain with narrow victory in Wash.
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New Hampshire winner John McCain -- whose 2008 presidential bid seemed doomed just weeks ago by major money and organizational problems -- gloried Tuesday night in defying expectations by topping top rival former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney by a comfortable margin (with 86 percent of precincts counted, 37 percent for McCain, 32 percent for Romney).
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Talk about cold comfort. Mitt Romney, who dropped out of the Republican presidential race on Thursday, won a straw poll of conservative activists on Saturday, edging out likely nominee John McCain.
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Promising to revitalize the distressed automobile industry, Mitt Romney defeated his principal rival, Senator John McCain of Arizona, by winning a clear plurality of Republicans and conservatives.
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Mitt Romney edged ahead of Republican rival John McCain in early vote counting Tuesday, seeking to revive his weakened presidential candidacy with a hard-fought victory in his native state.
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Bloomberg - Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) -- John McCain's win in the South Carolina primary yesterday gives him two major victories in the race for the Republican presidential nomination and strengthens his campaign going into the Jan. 29 Florida primary.
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Republican Mitt Romney claims a win in Michigan's US presidential primary, ahead of rival John McCain.