Huckabee and Giuliani tied in 2008 Republican race
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Mike Huckabee has surged into a virtual tie with front-runner Rudy Giuliani in the national 2008 Republican presidential race two weeks before the first contest, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
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Rasmussen Reports - John McCain has a seven point lead over Mitt Romney in California's Republican Presidential Primary. The first Rasmussen Reports telephone poll of the race shows McCain earning 24% of the vote while Romney attracts 17%. More than ten points behind the leader are Mike Huckabee at 13%, Fred Thompson at 13%, and Rudy Giuliani at 11%.
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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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Mike Huckabee said Tuesday passion for his beliefs Â not his ego Â was the reason he remains in the Republican presidential race despite near-impossible odds. Rival John McCain collected another primary win in Wisconsin and moved closer to the 1,191 delegates needed to clinch the nomination. Huckabee hasn't won a contest since Feb. 9.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Mike Huckabee won the Kansas Republican presidential caucuses, beating John McCain, according to projections by television networks and the Associated Press.
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While Huckabee and Romney work to win the caucus, McCain, Thompson and Giuliani hope their tough talk on war and immigration can ensure a respectable third-place finish
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Louisiana Republicans split over John McCain, the winner of state caucuses, and Mike Huckabee, who narrowly won the state primary. This weekend the rivals will have another chance to snare delegates to the national convention.
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Rasmussen Reports - Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) continues to hold a solid, double-digit, lead in the race for the Republican Presidential nomination. Giuliani attracts support from 32% of Likely Primary Voters, fourteen points more than the number two man in the race, Arizona Senator John McCain. This is the largest lead yet measured for Giuliani. A week ago, he was ahead 27% to 19%.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- John McCain, in position to become the Republican presidential nominee, should choose someone like South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford as his running mate rather than former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, conservative leader David Keene said.
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Mitt Romney pledged a long fight for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, despite finishing second to John McCain in the New Hampshire primary after posting another second-place finish to Mike Huckabee in the Iowa caucuses.
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Bloomberg - July 13 (Bloomberg) -- Rudy Giuliani entered the second half of 2007 with $3 million more in the bank to spend on getting the Republican presidential nomination than former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, according to reports filed today with the U.S. Federal Election Commission.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Former Gov. Mike Huckabee won the Iowa Republican caucus on Thursday, surging past better-known rivals to triumph in the first nominating contest of the 2008 U.S. presidential election, U.S. media reported.
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Republican presidential contenders Rudy Giuliani and John McCain bowed out of a high-profile Iowa straw poll on Wednesday, rendering the decades-old August contest all but meaningless. Their decisions cleared the way for top rival Mitt Romney, who promptly claimed victory in the early test of organizational strength.
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Rasmussen Reports - John McCain and Mike Huckabee are tied for the lead in Alabama's Republican Presidential Primary. McCain and Huckabee each attract 27% support while Mitt Romney is a distant third at 15%. Rudy Giuliani is the choice for 8% while Ron Paul is supported by 3% and 20% are not sure.
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Bloomberg - Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The early Republican presidential race is a tale of voters' divisions over religion, with former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee riding support from evangelical Christians to a dominant Iowa lead, and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney well ahead in more secular New Hampshire.
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It's nothing new for the odds to be stacked against Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. Last year he lagged far behind his competitors in fundraising, national polls didn't even show him on the radar for the majority of 2007, and now he contends it would take a "miracle" to beat Arizona Sen. John McCain for their party's nomination. But Huckabee says he's not one to take the "easy" way out.
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Republican presidential hopefuls Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romeny traded blows over taxes and immigration in a debate Sunday, while New Hampshire polls leader John McCain said he would capture Osama bin-Laden if elected.