McCain enters 2008 presidential race
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Influential Republican Senator John McCain announced Wednesday he will run for the White House in the 2008 race.
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Dismissing dire  forecasts of his political future, Republican presidential  contender John McCain promised on Saturday to mount a comeback  by taking his campaign directly to voters in the states that  kick off the 2008 race.
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Democrat Barack Obama hopes to rout Hillary Rodham Clinton in presidential primaries in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia while Republican John McCain seeks to put more distance between himself and Mike Huckabee.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- John McCain, poised to wrap up the Republican presidential nomination, has widened his lead over his remaining rivals while Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are statistically tied in their contest, a new Newsweek poll found.
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Republican presidential hopeful John McCain headed Tuesday to New York to raise money on rival Rudy Giuliani's turf and pick up the endorsement of the former New York mayor's longtime nemesis.
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Republican Senator John McCain has moved into the national lead for his party's nomination for the presidency, according to a poll released Wednesday on the eve of the first voting.
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Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain,  once courted by Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry, is  emerging as a major force in the re-election campaign of  President Bush, who vanquished McCain in the 2000 Republican  primary.
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain is making his sixth trip to Iraq this week.
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Republican Fred Thompson says he will make his long-awaited entry into the 2008 presidential race next week.
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Sen. John McCain made it official on  Wednesday that he is seeking the 2008 Republican presidential  nomination and said he plans a formal announcement in April.
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This time a Republican heavyweight not an underdog, John McCain embarks on his second presidential run facing numerous challenges in courting a GOP establishment he once spurned at nearly every turn.
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The race for presidential cash in its infancy, Sen. John McCain on Wednesday collected $1.7 million in his campaign's first few weeks while Republican rival Rudy Giuliani's early take totaled $1.4 million.
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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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John McCain's emergence as the probable Republican presidential nominee is reshaping the Democratic contest, prompting Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama to cast themselves as best-suited to defeat him, and focusing their debate on issues they figure will play specifically to his strengths and weaknesses.
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Starting as early as last June, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was hiring staffers and consultants in New Hampshire and Iowa and building the foundation for his 2008 presidential bid at a time when those in early battleground states typically get a breather from national politics.
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John McCain was striving to end the Republican race on Tuesday, while polls showed Hillary Rodham Clintonâs lead over Barack Obama was narrowing.
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John McCain took pole position in the Republican White House race on Wednesday, securing the endorsement of Rudolph Giuliani with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger poised to follow suit.