Republican race up for grabs after McCain clinches victory
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Republican race White House blown wide open last by convincing win from John McCain
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Republican John McCain  and Democrat Hillary Clinton won heated presidential nominating  battles in South Carolina and Nevada on Saturday, picking up  strength in an unpredictable White House race where no  candidate has been able to sustain momentum.
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Sen. John McCain won the Wisconsin  vote to select a Republican presidential candidate on Tuesday,  moving closer toward locking up the party's nomination after  his leading rivals bowed out of the race, U.S. media projected.
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Arizona Sen. John McCain pulled out a win Saturday in South Carolina's Republican presidential primary, edging former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee by 3 percentage points in nearly complete returns and easily outrunning the rest of the GOP field.
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McCain cements GOP front-runner status with projected wins coast-to-coastDems evenly split between Clinton and ObamaDisappointing night for Romney; Huckabee surprises pundits
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Rasmussen Reports - Strange as it may seem to many who wrote off John McCain last summer, the Arizona Senator is now the frontrunner the Republican Presidential nomination (a fact that sends chills down the spine of many conservative activists and pundits).
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Super Tuesday positioned Sen. John McCain as the clear Republican front-runner, while a split decision in the Democratic race may eventually help Sen. Barack Obama, according to CNN's political analysts.
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The results in Florida were a decisive turning point in the Republican race, effectively winnowing the field to Senator John McCain and Mitt Romney.
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Savoring a much-needed win in his native Michigan, Mitt Romney promised Wednesday to give John McCain a run for his money in the next contest for the Republican presidential nomination, a four-man, anything-goes scramble in South Carolina.
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John McCain's hold on the Republican nomination  tightens with former rival's backing
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Republican Senator John McCain triumphed in the key 2008 New Hampshire presidential primary Tuesday, with the Democratic battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama too-close-to-call.
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Bloomberg - Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Arizona Senator John McCain last night triumphed in the Florida primary and earned front-runner status in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Arizona Sen. John McCain takes control of the battle for the Republican presidential nomination -- a prospect that seemed almost unthinkable just a few months ago.
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COLUMBIA, South Carolina  - Arizona Sen. John McCain won the South Carolina primary on Saturday, strengthening his claim to the Republican U.S. presidential nomination by beating rivals in a Southern state that traditionally has favored their socially conservative message, U.S. media projected.
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SOUTHFIELD, Michigan  - Mitt Romney scored a breakthrough win over rival John McCain in Michigan on Tuesday, reviving his struggling campaign and scrambling a chaotic Republican presidential race with no clear front-runner.
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Republican presidential hopeful John McCain hopes to gather steam from his New Hampshire victory and begin picking off rivals with wins in Michigan, South Carolina and beyond.
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Mitt Romney defeated his principal rival, Senator John McCain of Arizona, by winning a clear plurality of Republicans and conservatives.