Among Candidates, a Few Wild Cards Could Reshuffle the Race
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The names of the 2008 front-runners are familiar to any political junkie with a pulse. But what about the slew of lesser-known candidates seeking the nomination in both parties? Sure, they don't have the star power of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) or Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), or the fundraising chops of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) or former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani (R). But several of these lesser lights could make a real impact on next year's nomination fight....
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John McCain, who won the New Hampshire primary in 2000, is in many ways a different candidate running a very different campaign.
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One of the two democratic campaigns will end up with a fresh sense of possibility, the other with a sense of opportunity lost.
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The prospect of another close U.S.  presidential election has focused new attention on the  Electoral College, which actually chooses the winner, but the  renewed calls for change are likely to fail as they have  hundreds of times in the past.
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Forget Republican versus Democrat, conservative versus liberal, hawk versus dove. This year's presidential candidates have all but turned their supercharged race into a choice between Armageddon and survival.
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The Republican field swells to 13 presidential candidates, official and potential.
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Money helped winnow the presidential field. It hasn't determined who each party's nominee will be.
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Democrats may be experiencing a sense of deja vu as they again search for a leader in a crowded field of candidates with no clear favorite to win. A year ago, the hopefuls were vying for president. Now, a new crop is running to lead the Democratic National Committee.
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When it comes to presidential primaries, Democrats and Republicans play by different rules. One party likes to share. The other, not so much.
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A close inspection of candidatesâ wares offers the prospect of a peek into their characters and hoped-for constituencies.
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It seems that this yearâs presidential race is not a debate about the future of our country, but a debate about each candidateâs past.
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Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are aggressively pursuing members of the group that could be tiebreakers at their partyâs convention.
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Barack Obama, who has made his mark in the presidential race with his call for a new brand of politics, isn't quite as singular on the political scene as his campaign would suggest.
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The Democratic candidates are aggressively pursuing members of the group that could serve as tiebreakers at the partyâs convention.
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Super Tuesday may be a de facto national primary, but the outcome might not be as clear Â or as timely Â as results in most November elections.
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The presidential campaign is entering a new phase as the campaign has turned into a possibly lengthy hunt for delegates for the first time in 20 years.
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There have been some big moves recently in the prediction markets that are tracking the presidential campaign.