McCain takes lead but Romney vows to fight on
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John McCain, savoring his status as Republican presidential front-runner, moved into national campaign mode on Wednesday expecting to win the backing of defeated rival Rudy Giuliani ahead of next week's "Super Tuesday" showdown, but Mitt Romney vowed to fight on.
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Mitt Romney takes GOP presidential rival John McCain to task on taxes and immigration in a new advertising push in New Hampshire as he seeks to fend off the Arizona senator's challenge.
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Senator John McCain is fighting for the backing of foes in the Republican Party's conservative base, now that rival Mitt Romney has quit the race, clearing McCain's path to the presidential nomination.
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Despite the odds, Mitt Romney is committed to barreling ahead in his bid for the nomination, said his son Tagg.
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John McCain has emerged as the man to beat for the Republican nomination.
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John McCain has vaulted from long shot to the front-runner to win the Republican nomination for U.S. president. The reason? Voter confidence he can beat the eventual Democratic candidate in November's election, according to interviews with some of his supporters.
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Mitt Romney and John McCain traded attacks in a state that could produce a Republican front-runner before a virtual national primary next week.
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Mitt Romney takes GOP presidential rival John McCain to task on spending and immigration in a new advertising push in New Hampshire as he seeks to fend off the Arizona senator's challenge.
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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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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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Arizona Sen. John McCain won the  California Republican primary on Tuesday, defeating main rival  Mitt Romney in the biggest contest of the day and boosting his  front-running bid for the party's U.S. presidential nomination,  NBC projected.
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Republican Sen. John McCain won a big victory in the Republican delegate race over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on Super Tuesday, extending his lead by capturing nearly all the delegates in California.
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John McCain won his home state's GOP primary Tuesday, beating Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee by overcoming anger from conservatives who oppose his stance on illegal immigration. Hillary Rodham Clinton won on the Democratic side.
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney pledged to fight all the way to the Republican nominating convention this summer if necessary, despite being overpowered by John McCain in Super Tuesday contests.
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Republican Mitt Romney, his family and supporters vowed to carry his campaign into the vote-rich Super Tuesday contests next week after narrowly losing Florida's primary to rival John McCain.
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Republican rivals Mitt Romney and John McCain both promised to revive recession-ravaged Michigan and the auto industry Monday as they campaigned in a presidential primary neither can afford to lose. "I will not rest until Michigan is back," said Romney, a native son who jabbed at his rival for saying many jobs among the thousands lost will never return.
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John McCain's hold on the Republican nomination  tightens with former rival's backing