McCain leads Romney in tight Fla. race
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John McCain edged ahead of Mitt Romney in the Florida primary Tuesday night, a battle for the biggest delegate prize to date as well as precious campaign momentum heading into next week's competition across more than 20 states.
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Republican Senator John McCain has moved into the national lead for his party's nomination for the presidency, according to a poll released Wednesday on the eve of the first voting.
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Republicans John McCain and Mitt Romney focus on each other in Wednesday's televised presidential debate only hours after Florida voters left no doubt that they are the two viable contenders for their party's nomination.
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Republican Mitt Romney inched into a virtual dead heat with rival John McCain in Michigan hours before voting began in the state's presidential nominating contest, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Tuesday.
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U.S. Republican presidential hopeful  Mitt Romney vowed to press ahead with his campaign for his  party's nomination despite losing several key primary contests  on Tuesday to rivals John McCain and Mike Huckabee.
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Senator John McCain racked up victories in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, but he appears to be locked in a tight battle with Mitt Romney for California.
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PANAMA CITY, Florida  - In a tight battle in Florida, John McCain and Mitt Romney competed to stick each other with the liberal tag, a political death sentence among conservative Republicans whose votes could be decisive in Tuesday's presidential voting.
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John McCain and Mitt Romney clashed in a hard-fought Florida primary on Tuesday, seeking campaign momentum before the race for the Republican presidential nomination turns into a nationwide delegate struggle on Feb. 5.
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Mitt Romney pledged a long fight for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, regardless of 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 - Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain has opened a lead over rival Mitt Romney in the campaign for Michigan's Jan. 15 primary election, according to a poll released today.
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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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Republican  presidential candidate John McCain predicted on Sunday he would  do well in the Florida primary election this month after  winning South Carolina and took a swipe at rival Rudy Giuliani.
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Republican Mitt Romney sought Sunday to lock up the Florida primary by refusing to talk about little else but the economic jitters confronting the nation. His rivals had the same goal in mind, too, as they fanned out across the Sunshine State.
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John McCain and Mitt Romney are trying to take command of the long and antagonistic Republican presidential race, and the sheer size of next Tuesday's delegate haul could finally make that possible.
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Tuesday that Florida's decision to move up its 2008 primary to Jan. 29 was part of a strange national trend that gives voters little time to pick the best candidate for their party.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is leading Arizona Senator John McCain and Texas Representative Ron Paul in the nonbinding Maine Republican presidential caucuses.
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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%.