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Mark Warner‘s decision to bow out of the early presidential race leaves a field still crowded with Democrats competing to be the most attractive alternative to front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton .

"It‘s good for Hillary. Anytime a serious contender drops out that helps the front-runner," said Steve Elmendorf, the deputy campaign manager for Democrat John Kerry ‘s 2004 presidential campaign. "Warner would have been, perhaps, the strongest, or certainly one of the strongest candidates, to become the anti-Hillary. This also will help somebody who‘s looking at that role."

"I respect his decision. It‘s such an intensely personal decision," Clinton said in Syracuse, N.Y., during a campaign appearance for her 2006 Senate re-election race. "He‘s been a tremendous public servant, and I hope we haven‘t seen the last of him in Democratic politics and on the national scene."

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