Gilmore drops presidential candidacy
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Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore ended his long-shot campaign for presidency on Saturday, acknowledging he couldn't raise enough money.
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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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Former Sen. John Edwards is quitting the Democratic race for president, two sources inside his campaign told CNN Wednesday. The former senator is expected to make an announcement in New Orleans at 1 p.m.
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Former Virginia governor James S. Gilmore III underwent emergency eye surgery Friday to repair a partially detached  retina, a condition that will force him to suspend campaigning in his long-shot bid for the White House, aides said yesterday.
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Former North Carolina Sen. John  Edwards, who focused his bid for the Democratic nomination on  helping the middle class, will withdraw from the presidential  race in a speech later on Wednesday.
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Former Tenn. senator, whose candidacy fizzled after a summer of expectations, withdraws.
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GOP candidate bows out of nomination race, backs front-runner and longtime friend John McCain.
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The number of candidates challenging the Kremlin's choice for president dwindled Wednesday when the leader of a pro-business party dropped out of the race.
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Marwan Barghouti withdrew his name as a candidate for the Palestinian presidency today after bowing to increasing pressure from Fatah leaders.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Mitt Romney suspended his presidential campaign today, clearing the way for John McCain to seal the Republican presidential nomination.
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Democratic candidate John Edwards abandoned his populist presidential bid on Wednesday, leaving the race to front-runners Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
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The TV star and former Senator ends a run for the Presidency that was scuttled by the candidate's own apparent apathy
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Democratic candidate John Edwards abandoned his presidential bid on Wednesday, while among Republicans challenger Mitt Romney vowed to keep up his struggle to overtake newly-crowned front-runner John McCain.
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Thailand's new interim prime minister said Thursday that the country's candidate to become the next secretary general of the United Nations is dropping his bid for the job.
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Republican Rudy  Giuliani and Democrat John Edwards abandoned their failing U.S.  presidential bids on Wednesday, narrowing the race in both  parties to two main candidates ahead of next week's multi-state  round of voting.
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Senator John Edwards quits race to become candidate after consistently trailing in third
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Rasmussen Reports - This week, Rasmussen Reports dropped Al Gore from our list of contenders in polling on the Democratic Presidential nomination but it had little impact on the overall dynamic of the poll results.