McCain and Clinton win White House battles
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COLUMBIA, South Carolina  - Republican John McCain and Democrat Hillary Clinton won heated presidential nominating battles in South Carolina and Nevada on Saturday, gaining strength in an unpredictable White House race where no candidate has been able to sustain momentum.
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The unpredictable  fight for the White House went national on Wednesday, as  candidates fanned out across the United States and Democrat  Barack Obama bounced back from a surprise loss to Hillary  Clinton to grab a coveted union endorsement.
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Sens. Hillary Clinton and John McCain will carry much-needed momentum from New Hampshire into upcoming contests in the 2008 presidential campaign. Clinton, coming off a third-place finish in Iowa, rebounded to overcome rival Sen. Barack Obama. On the GOP side, McCain claimed victory over Mitt Romney.
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Barack Obama won a clean sweep over rival Hillary Clinton in Saturday's three Democratic presidential nominating contests, as Republican Mike Huckabee gave John McCain a run for his money.
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Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama split the spoils in the Nevada caucuses Saturday night, a race marred by late charges of dirty politics. John McCain and Mike Huckabee dueled for victory in a hard-fought Republican primary in South Carolina.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won New Hampshire's Democratic primary Tuesday night in a startling upset, defeating Sen. Barack Obama and resurrecting her bid for the White House. Sen. John McCain powered past his Republican rivals and back into contention for the GOP nomination.
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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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MANCHESTER, New Hampshire  - Democrat Hillary Clinton, her back against the wall in New Hampshire, battled to keep the state from swinging to rival Barack Obama on Sunday while Republican Mitt Romney lashed out at John McCain.
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John McCain does better than anyone against Hillary Rodham Clinton in the hypothetical one-on-one match-ups.
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Bloomberg - Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The two frontrunners in the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican John McCain, face obstacles in their quest to win the White House, according to a Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll.
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MANCHESTER, New Hampshire  - Hillary Clinton fought to complete a dramatic comeback against Barack Obama on Tuesday, with the two Democrats running neck-and-neck in New Hampshire in a tighter presidential race than predicted by recent U.S. public opinion polls.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton smothered Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain with kindness on Friday, then declared her rivals wrong on the issues and vowed to beat both in her quest for the presidency.
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Wisconsin and Hawaii become the latest battlegrounds in the struggle for the Democratic presidential nominee Tuesday, while Republican Sen. John McCain is looking for victories to finally knock his last remaining major rival out of the race.
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McCain cements GOP front-runner status with projected wins coast-to-coastDems evenly split between Clinton and ObamaDisappointing night for Romney; Huckabee surprises pundits
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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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Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on Saturday clash face-to-face for the first time since he captured the first 2008 White House nominating contest and threw her campaign into turmoil.
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Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton battled to a draw on "Super Tuesday" and John McCain took charge of the Republican race in coast-to-coast presidential nominating battles in 24 U.S. states.