McCain plea as Romney quits
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John McCain calls on conservatives to rally behind him as Mitt Romney ends his US presidential campaign.
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Talk about cold comfort. Mitt Romney, who dropped out of the Republican presidential race on Thursday, won a straw poll of conservative activists on Saturday, edging out likely nominee John McCain.
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Sen. John McCain challenged other Republican presidential candidates Tuesday to propose their own immigration legislation or stop criticizing the plan he's co-sponsoring.
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Mitt Romney takes GOP presidential rival John McCain to task on taxes and immigration in a new advertising push in New Hampshire as he seeks to fend off the Arizona senator's challenge. Countering, McCain claimed the criticism proves Romney's bid is in trouble.
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He's been good on consumer rights and the environment. But as Sen. John McCain works to solidify his Republican front-runner status, signs emerge that he's abandoning some long-held convictions.
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John McCain's campaign manager and chief strategist are gone from their leadership roles, a major staff shake-up for the struggling Republican presidential candidate who is all but broke and trails in opinion polls.
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With John McCain on vacation and Rudy Giuliani occupied elsewhere in the state, Mitt Romney sought this weekend to close the deal with New Hampshire Republicans who remain undecided about his presidential candidacy.
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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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Republican John McCain's top two aides quit his struggling presidential bid on Tuesday, dealing a sharp blow to the Arizona senator and casting the future of his 2008 campaign in doubt.
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Mitt Romney takes GOP presidential rival John McCain to task on spending and immigration in a new advertising push in New Hampshire as he seeks to fend off the Arizona senator's challenge.
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John McCain's top communications aides resigned Monday, the latest staff departures to hit the Republican's campaign as he struggles to rebound from financial and political woes.
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Struggling Republican presidential  contender John McCain suffered another wave of staff  resignations on Monday, including his national press team and  aides in the early voting states of Iowa and South Carolina.
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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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Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who dropped out of the Republican presidential race last week, is to endorse front-runner John McCain, CNN and MSNBC television said Thursday.
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John McCain hoped to seal the deal. Mitt Romney wanted to stay alive.
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Once a loser here, Republican Sen. John McCain desperately wants to avoid the same fate in this Southern state's primary &#151; a shellacking that marked the beginning of the end of his first presidential campaign.
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John McCain accused Mitt Romney of wanting to set a timetable to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, drawing immediate protest from his Republican presidential rival who said: "That's simply wrong and it's dishonest, and he should apologize."