Kucinich abandons White House bid
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Democrat Dennis Kucinich is abandoning his second, long-shot bid for the White House as he faces a tough fight to hold onto his other job Â U.S. congressman.
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Russian opposition figure and former chess star Garry Kasparov abandons plans to run for the presidency.
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Democrat Dennis Kucinich told a newspaper on Thursday he would end his race for the U.S. presidency after registering little voter support in the early state contests.
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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 candidate Mitt Romney  dropped out of the U.S. presidential race on Thursday, a  decision that makes Sen. John McCain the all-but-certain  nominee of his party.
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Former New York Mayor  Rudy Giuliani ended his White House campaign on Wednesday and  endorsed Arizona Sen. John McCain's Republican presidential  bid.
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Longshot presidential hope Tom Vilsack Friday abandoned the 2008 White House race, becoming the first Democratic victim of the fight for campaign cash by frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
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A spokesman for the Idaho Republican said the senator has all but abandoned the notion of trying to finish his term.
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Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio says he plans to seek the presidency again.
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Democrat Tom Vilsack, the former  governor of Iowa, plans to drop his longshot 2008 bid for the  White House, campaign and party sources said on Friday.
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Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich on Tuesday asked his supporters to make rival Barack Obama their second choice if he doesn't meet a cutoff point for voting in Iowa's caucuses.
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Rudolph Giuliani and John McCain, two top candidates for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, on Wednesday opted out of the first key test of the race, the Iowa straw poll.
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With a call for Ã¢ÂÂsanityÃ¢ÂÂ and a plea to end the war in Iraq, Democratic Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio announced Tuesday he was taking another swing at the White House after a failed bid for his partyÃ¢ÂÂs nod in 2004.
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Former senator John Edwards pulled out of the White House race on Wednesday, leaving the fight for the Democratic nomination to bitter rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
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Mitt Romney is today expected to withdraw from the Republican race for president
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Former Tenn. senator, whose candidacy fizzled after a summer of expectations, withdraws.
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He approached the campaign like a business venture, but discovered that politics is different. Now he's out of the race