Gilmore pulls out of presidential race
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The crowded field for the Republican nomination for the 2008 U.S. presidential election shrank by one on Saturday when former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore announced he was withdrawing.
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Former senator Fred D. Thompson of Tennessee, whose candidacy fizzled after a summer of expectations, pulled out of the Republican presidential race yesterday after disappointing finishes in all of the primary contests held so far.
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PALM DESERT, California  - Fan favourite John Daly pulled out of the Bob Hope Classic before Saturday's fourth round because of a lingering rib injury.
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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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Bloomberg - Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton's campaign manager stepped down a day after Clinton lost three contests for the Democratic presidential nomination to Barack Obama.
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Democrat John Edwards is exiting the race for the White House, according to US media reports.
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Mitt Romney suspends his bid for the Republican party nomination for the White House.
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U.S. News & World Report - Evan Bayh, the Indiana senator who had been publicly testing the waters for a White House run in 2008 and was seen as leading the pack of moderate challengers to Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, announced this morning that he will not enter the race, surprising even many in his political circle.
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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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A longtime Democratic fundraiser has abandoned Barack Obama's campaign to help rival Hillary Rodham Clinton win the party's presidential nomination.
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The battle for the White House narrowed dramatically on Wednesday as the exit of Rudolph Giuliani and John Edwards left Republican and Democratic front-runners in a pair of two-horse races.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has decided to pull his advertising from South Carolina and Florida, in a sign of trouble for a campaign that badly needs a win.
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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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The dark-horse Republican presidential bid of ex-Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore is over. Gilmore, also a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, posted an announcement on his campaign Web site Saturday that he has ended his bid for the 2008 GOP nomination.
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County Mayor Nancy Workman, facing criminal charges of misspending taxpayer money, announced she was withdrawing from the Nov. 2 election.
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Actor and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson on Tuesday announced that he was dropping his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
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The injured Red Sox hurler backed off from taking the stage to appear with President Bush at two Granite State campaign events yesterday.