Gilmore pulls out of presidential race
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The crowded field for the Republican  nomination for the 2008 U.S. presidential election shrank by  one on Saturday when former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore announced  he was withdrawing.
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The injured Red Sox hurler backed off from taking the stage to appear with President Bush at two Granite State campaign events yesterday.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, the first Democrat who entered the race for president in 2008, today became the first candidate to withdraw. He said he couldn't raise enough money.
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WASHINGTON - An election lawyer for President Bush who also has been advising a veterans group running TV ads against Democrat John Kerry resigned Wednesday from Bush's campaign.   "I cannot begin to express my sadness that my legal representations have become a distraction from the critical issues at hand in this election," Benjamin Ginsberg wrote in a resignation letter to Bush released by the campaign...
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An aide says jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti has withdrawn from the presidential campaign.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton's campaign manager stepped down a day after Clinton lost three contests for the Democratic presidential nomination to Barack Obama.
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Conservative Senator Sam Brownback dropped out of the crowded race for the Republican presidential nomination on Friday, reducing the field to eight candidates.
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Lia Roberts, the former chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Party, has withdrawn from the presidential race in her native Romania.
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Democrat Dennis Kucinich told a newspaper on Thursday he would end his race for the U.S. presidency after registering little voter support in early state contests.
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County Mayor Nancy Workman, facing criminal charges of misspending taxpayer money, announced she was withdrawing from the Nov. 2 election for health reasons.
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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 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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Senator John Edwards quits race to become candidate after consistently trailing in third
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He approached the campaign like a business venture, but discovered that politics is different. Now he's out of the race
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Marion Jones pulled out of this weekend's World Cup in Athletics in Athens and won't race again this season.
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Democrat John Edwards is exiting the presidential race Wednesday, ending a scrappy underdog bid in which he steered his rivals toward progressive ideals
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Mitt Romney, who sought to position himself as the true conservative choice for the Republican nomination, announced Thursday that he had ended his campaign.