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| x Mitt Romney presidential campaign, 2008 |
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Mitt Romney | Republican Party |
Mitt Romney was a Republican Party primary candidate in the 2008 United States presidential election. On January 3, 2007, two days before he stepped down as governor of Massachusetts, Romney filed to form a presidential exploratory committee with...
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| x Ron Paul presidential campaign, 2008 |
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Ron Paul was a Republican Party primary candidate in the 2008 United States presidential election.
Initial opinion polls during the first three quarters of 2007 showed Ron Paul consistently receiving support from 3% or less of those polled. In the...
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| x Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008 |
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Barack Obama | Democratic Party | Feb 10, 2007 |
On February 10, 2007, Barack Obama, then junior United States Senator from Illinois, announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States in Springfield, Illinois. On June 3, 2008, he secured enough delegates to become the presumptive...
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| x Rudy Giuliani presidential campaign, 2008 |
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Rudy Giuliani’s 2008 presidential campaign began after the establishment of a draft movement in October 2005. In November of the following year, Giuliani formed an exploratory committee and formally announced that he was actively running for the...
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| x Duncan Hunter presidential campaign, 2008 |
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Fourteen-term Congressman and Vietnam War veteran Duncan Hunter of California announced his intentions to run for the 2008 Republican nomination for President of the United States in January 2007. He focused his campaign on the issues of border...
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| x Fred Thompson presidential campaign, 2008 |
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Fred Thompson was a Republican Party primary candidate to represent his party in the 2008 United States presidential election. Thompson has worked as a lawyer, lobbyist, and character actor, and he represented Tennessee as a Republican in the U.S....
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| x Mike Gravel presidential campaign, 2008 |
Mike Gravel, a former United States Senator from Alaska, on April 17, 2006, declared his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2008 election, in a speech to the National Press Club.
His campaign gained an...
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| x John McCain presidential campaign, 2008 |
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John McCain |
John McCain, the senior United States Senator from Arizona, launched his second candidacy for the presidency of the United States in an unsuccessful bid for the 2008 presidential election. His candidacy, in the works for a number of years, was...
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| x Mike Huckabee presidential campaign, 2008 |
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Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas, announced his candidacy for the Republican Party nomination for the 2008 presidential election in the United States on January 28 2007. Huckabee ended his bid for the Republican Nomination, after losing...
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| x John Edwards presidential campaign, 2008 |
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John Edwards is the former United States Senator from North Carolina and was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004. On December 28, 2006, he announced his entry into the 2008 Presidential election in the city of New Orleans near sites...
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| x Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, 2008 |
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New York junior Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton had expressed interest in the 2008 United States presidential election since at least October 2002, drawing media speculation on whether she would become a candidate. No woman has...
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| x George Phillies presidential campaign, 2008 |
George Phillies was born July 23, 1947 in Buffalo, New York, first son of Eustace G. Phillies, M.D. and Clara Phillies. Phillies grew up in Kenmore and Williamsville, New York, finished as salutatorian at the Williamsville Central High School [now...
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| x Bob Barr presidential campaign, 2008 | Bob Barr | Libertarian Party | |||
| x Stephen Colbert presidential campaign, 2008 |
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Stephen Colbert | Oct 16, 2007 |
On October 16, 2007, satirist Stephen Colbert (in the guise of his character) officially announced that he would run for President of the United States. This came after weeks of jokes about being pressured to do so by the public and stating that he...
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