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  Senator Lindsey Graham is bowing out of the 2016 presidential race, he
  told supporters Monday during a conference call, leaving a baker's dozen in the Republican field seeking to succeed President Barack
  Obama.
  
  'I was hoping not to have to make this call,' Graham
  said, according to a person who listened in. 'But I
  think the time has come for me to suspend my campaign.'
  
  Graham complained about being relegated to the so-called 'undercard' debate stage, where he has been limited to crossing swords with other bottom-tier candidates like former Arkansas Gov.
  Mike Huckabee and former New York Gov. George Pataki. 
  
  'I just don't see how we [can] grow the campaign without getting on the main stage,' he
  added, citing a failure to 'get our voice on equal footing with others.'
  
  'This second-tier debate process has been difficult for us.
  I think we've done well in the debates, it's just hard to break through,
  because the buzz doesn't last very long.' 
  
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  SOMETHING IN HIS EYE: A teared-up Lindsey Graham announced Monday that he's dropping out of the White House chase
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  WEEPY: Graham was emotional as he quit the race to be commander-in-chief, saying: 'I've hit a
  wall here.'
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  In an interview with CNN, Graham fought back tears and said: 'I've
  hit a wall here.' 
  
  
  But he predicted that 'the nominee of our party is going to adopt my
  plan when it comes time to articulate how to destroy ISIL.'
  
  And to the Democrats' front-runner, he extended a rare olive
  branch. 
  
  'Hillary, if you get to be president, I'll help you where
  I can,' he said. 'I hope you're not. But if
  you are, I'll be there to help you win a war we can't afford to
  lose.'
  
  In a message delivered to voters on YouTube, he called his sputtering effort 'a problem solver's campaign.
  I have tried to be honest with the American people, look for realistic ways to get
  things done, and inject a little humor along the way.'
  
  The South Carolinian was plagued by low poll numbers but beloved
  by campaign watchers for his blunt style and humorous one-liners.
  
  
  
  'I'm not afraid of a guy riding around on a horse without his shirt on,' Graham quipped about Russian President Vladimir
  Putin during last Tuesday night's undercard debate.
  
  
  'The guy's got a pair of twos and we got a full house and he's
  walking all over Obama.' 
  
  Graham, 60, is walking off the debate stage entirely, joining former Texas Governor
  Rick Perry and current governors Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Bobby
  Jindal of Louisiana on the sidelines.
  
  But he's young enough to make another run at the presidency in the
  future - and could be on vice presidential short-lists, especially if national security continues to be a front-burner issue.
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is leaving the presidential campaign trail
  
  'The centerpiece of my campaign has been securing our nation,'
  he said on YouTube. 'I have offered a detailed plan to
  win a war we cannot afford to lose and to turn back the tide of isolationism that has been rising in the Republican Party.'
  
  'Four months ago at the very first debate, I said that any candidate who did not understand that we need more troops on the ground in Iraq and Syria to defeat ISIL was not ready to be commander-in-chief,' he added. 
  
  'At the time, no one stepped forward to join me. Today,
  most of my fellow candidates have come to recognize this is what's needed to secure our
  homeland."
  
  Graham is a retired Air Force Reserve colonel and was the only military veteran in the presidential contest on either side of the aisle.
  
  He faced unusual questions during his campaign about how the White House would run under his command since he has never married.
  
  He told DailyMail.com in June that he would have a 'rotating' first lady slot if he were elected.
  
  The plainspoken national defense hawk mused about asking his sister Darline to step into the role. He raised her after their parents died while he was a college student and she was 13.
  
  But he never got near the presidency, taking on water from his rivals who called him 'Lindsey Grahamnesty' behind his back, citing his participating in the 2013 'Gang of Eight' Senate strategy to approve an Obama-favored immigration bill.
  
  That legislation, which died in the House of Representatives, would have opened up a pathway to full U.S. citizenship for more than 11 million illegal immigrants living inside the nation's borders. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  REACTIONS: While rival Republican Jeb Bush offered a digital handshake over Twitter, comedian Michael Ian Black quipped that Graham was 'like the well-intentioned substitute teacher in a classroom at juvie'
  
  Ultimately, Graham was done in by the political realities of drowning in his home state's primary polls. 
  
  South Carolina is among the first three states where nominating delegates are chosen, and he was averaging less than 2 per cent support there despite being the state's senior senator.
  
  His final debate performance was full of the zingers that provided much of the rationale for tuning in to the early debate broadcasts that featured only the longest of long shots.
  
  Last week he defended the National Security Agency's widely panned phone surveillance programs, which involve massive data dumps that intelligence analysts can sift through for information about suspected terrorists' links to accomplices and sympathizers.
  
  
  'This is why I own a flip phone,' Graham said. 'You don't have to worry about all of this stuff.'  
  
  He also hammered Donald Trump for advocating a ban on non-American Muslims entering the United States, saying it would be a propaganda victory for ISIS.
  
  The terror army, he said, 'would be dancing in the street - they just don't believe in dancing.'
  
  But he defended on Monday his enthusiasm for taking the high road in his squabbles with The Donald.
  
  'I never went down the demagoguery trail," he said during his conference call.
  'I didn't get into this campaign to run other people down.'
  
  
  THE 2016 FIELD: WHO'S IN AND WHO'S OUT 
  
  A whopping 16 people from America's two major political parties are candidates in the 2016 presidential
  election.
  
  The field includes two women, an African-American and two Latinos.
  All but one in that group - Hillary Clinton - are Republicans.
  
  
  At 13 candidates, the GOP field has already lost two current governors, one former governor and
  a sitting senator, but is but still deeper than ever.
  
  
  A much smaller group of three Democrats includes a former secretary of state, a
  former governor and a current senator.
  
  REPUBLICANS IN THE RACE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Jeb Bush       Former Florida governor
  
  Age on Election Day: 63
  
  Religion: Catholic
  
  Base: Moderates                
  
  Résumé: Former Florida governor and secretary of state.
  Former co-chair of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy.
  
  
  Education: B.A. University of Texas at Austin.
  
  Family: Married to Columba Bush (1974), with three adult
  children. Noelle Bush has made news with her struggle with drug addiction, and related arrests.
  George P. Bush was elected Texas land commissioner in 2014.
  Jeb's father George H.W. Bush was the 41st President
  of the United States, and his brother George W. Bush was number 43.
  
  
  Claim to fame: Jeb was an immensely popular governor
  with strong economic and jobs credentials. He is also one of just two GOP candidates who is fluent in Spanish.
  
  
  Achilles heel: Bush has angered conservatives with his permissive positions on illegal immigration (saying
  some border-crossing is 'an act of love) and common-core education standards.
  His last name could also be a liability with voters who fear establishing a family dynasty in the White House.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chris Christie        New Jersey governor
  
  Age on Election Day: 54
  
  Religion: Catholic
  
  Base: Establishment-minded conservatives
  
  Résumé: Governor of New Jersey. Former U.S. Attorney for
  the District of New Jersey. Former Morris County freeholder and lobbyist.
  
  
  Governor of New Jersey. Former U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey.
  Former Morris County freeholder. Former statehouse
  lobbyist.
  
  Education: B.A. University of Delaware, Newark, J.D. Seton Hall University.
  
  
  
  Family: Married to Mary Pat Foster (1986) with four children.
  
  Claim to fame: Pugnacious and unapologetic, Christie once
  told a heckler to 'sit down and shut up' and brings a brash style to everything he does.
  That includes the post-9/11 criminal prosecutions of terror suspects that made his reputation as a hard-charger.
  
  
  Achilles heel: Christie is often accused of embracing an ego-driven and needlessly abrasive style.
  His administration continues to operate under a 'Bridgegate' cloud: At least two aides have been indicted in an alleged
  scheme to shut down lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge as political retribution for a mayor who refused to endorse the governor's re-election.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Carly Fiorina         Former tech CEO
  
  Age on Election Day: 62
  
  Religion:      Episcopalian 
  
  Base: Conservatives
  
  Résumé: Former CEO of Hewett-Packard. Former group president of Lucent Technologies.
  Former U.S. Senate candidate in California.
  
  Education: B.A. Stanford University. UCLA School of Law (did not finish).
  M.B.A. University of Maryland. M.Sci. Massachusetts Institute
  of Technology.
  
  Family: Married to Frank Fiorina (1985), with one adult step-daughter and another who is
  deceased. She has two step-grandchildren. Divorced from Todd Bartlem (1977-1984).
  
  
  Claim to fame: Fiorina was the first woman to lead a Fortune 20
  company, something that could provide ammunition against the Democratic Party's drive to make Hillary Clinton the first female president.
  She is also the only woman in the 2016 GOP field, making her the one
  Republican who can't be accused of sexism.
  
  Achilles heel: Fiorina's unceremonious firing by HP's board has led to questions about
  her management and leadership styles. And her only political experience has been a
  failed Senate bid in 2010 against Barbara Boxer.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Mike Huckabee     Former Arkansas governor
  
  Age on Election Day: 61
  
  Religion: Southern Baptist 
  
  Base: Evangelicals
  
  Résumé: Former governor and lieutenant governor of Arkansas.
  Former Fox News Channel host. Ordained minister and author.
  
  
  
  Education: B.A. Ouachita Baptist University. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (did not finish). 
  
  Family: Married to Janet Huckabee (1974), with three
  adult children. Mrs. Huckabee is a survivor of spinal
  cancer.
  
  Claim to fame: 'Huck' is a political veteran and has run for president before, winning the Iowa Caucuses in 2008 and finishing second for the GOP nomination behind John McCain. He's known as an affable
  Christian and succeeded in building a huge following on his weekend television program, in which he
  frequently sat in on the electric bass with country
  & western groups and other 'wholesome' musical entertainers.
  
  
  Achilles heel: Huckabee may have a problem with female voters.
  He complained in 2014 about Obamacare's mandatory contraception coverage, saying Democrats want women to 'believe that
  they are helpless without Uncle Sugar.' He earned more
  scorn for hawking herbal supplements in early-2015 infomercials as a diabetes cure, something he has yet to disavow despite disagreement from
  medical experts.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  George Pataki      Former New York governor 
  
  Age on Election Day: 71 
  
  Religion: Catholic
  
  Base: Centrists
  
  Résumé: Former governor of New York. Former New York state senator and state assemblyman. Former mayor of Peekskill, NY.
  
  
  
  Education: B.A. Yale University. J.D. Columbia Law School.
  
  
  
  Family: Married to Libby Rowland (1973), with four adult children.
  
  Claim to fame: Pataki was just the third Republican governor in New York's history, winning an improbable
  victory over three-term incumbent Mario Cuomo in 1994.
  He was known for being a rare tax-cutter in Albany and was also the sitting
  governor when the 9/11 terror attacks rocked
  New York CIty in 2001.
  
  Achilles heel: While Pataki's liberal-leaning social agenda plays well in the
  Empire State, it won't win him any fans among the GOP's
  conservative base. He supports abortion rights and gay rights, and has advocated strongly in favor of
  government intervention to stop global warming, which right-wingers believe is overblown as a global threat.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Marco Rubio         Florida senator
  
  Age on Election Day: 45
  
  Religion:          Catholic
  
  Base: Conservatives
  
  Résumé: US senator, former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, former city
  commissioner of West Miami
  
  Education: B.A. University of Florida. J.D.
  University of Miami School of Law.
  
  Family: Married to Jeanette Dousdebes (1998), with two sons and
  two daughters. Jeanette is a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader
  who posed for the squad's first swimsuit calendar. 
  
  Claim to fame: Rubio's personal story as the son of
  Cuban emigres is a powerful narrative, and helped him win his Senate seat in 2010 against a well-funded governor whom he initially trailed by 20 points.
  
  
  Achilles heel: Rubio was part of a bipartisan 'gang of eight' senators who crafted
  an Obama-approved immigration reform bill in 2013 which never became law - a move that
  angered conservative Republicans. And he was criticized in 2011
  for publicly telling a version of his parents' flight from Cuba that
  turned out to appear embellished.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Donald Trump     Real estate developer
  
  
  Age on Election Day: 70
  
  Religion:     Presbyterian 
  
  
  Base: Conservatives   
  
  Résumé: Chairman of The Trump Organization. Fixture on the Forbes 400 list of the world's richest people.
  Star of 'Celebrity Apprentice.'
  
  Education: B.Sci. Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  
  Family: Married to Melania Trump (2005). Divorced from Ivana Zelníčková (1977-92) and Marla Maples(1993-99).
  Five grown children. Trump's father Fred Trump amassed a $400 million fortune developing real estate.
  
  
  Claim to fame: Trump's niche in the 2016 campaign stems from his celebrity as a reality-show host and his enormous wealth - more than $10 billion, according to Trump.
  Because he can self-fund an entire presidential
  campaign, he is seen as less beholden to donors than other candidates.
  He has grabbed the attention of reporters and commentators by unapologetically staking out controversial positions and refusing to budge in the face of criticism.
  
  
  
  Achilles heel: Trump is a political neophyte who has
  toyed with running for president and for governor of New York, but shied away from taking the
  plunge until now. His billions also have the potential to alienate large swaths of
  the electorate. And his Republican rivals have labeled him an ego-driven celeb
  and an electoral sideshow because of his all-over-the-map policy history -
  much of which agrees with today's Democrats -
  and his past enthusiasm for anti-Obama 'birtherism.'
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Ben Carson       Retired physician
  
  Age on Election Day: 65
  
  Religion:              Seventh-day Adventist
  
  Base: Evangelicals
  
  Résumé: Famous pediatric neurosurgeon, youngest person to head a major Johns Hopkins Hospital division. Founder of the Carson Scholars
  Fund, which awards scholarships to children of good character.
  
  
  Education: B.A. Yale University. M.D. University of Michigan Medical School.
  
  
  Family: Married to Candy Carson (1975), with three adult
  sons. The Carsons live in Maryland with
  Ben's elderly mother Sonya, who was a seminal influence on his life and development. 
  
  Claim to fame: Carson spoke at a National Prayer Breakfast in 2013, railing against political correctness and
  condemned Obamacare - with President Obama sitting just
  a few feet away.
  
  Achilles heel: Carson is inflexibly conservative, opposing gay marriage and once saying gay attachments
  formed in prison provided evidence that sexual orientation is a choice.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Ted Cruz            Texas senator
  
  Age on Election Day: 45
  
  Religion:         Southern Baptist
  
  Base: Tea partiers
  
  Résumé:U.S. senator. Former Texas solicitor general. Former U.S.
  Supreme Court clerk. Former associate deputy attorney general under President George W.
  
  Bush.
  
  Education: B.A. Princeton University. J.D. Harvard Law School.
  
  
  Family: Married to Heidi Nelson Cruz (2001), with two young daughters.
  His father is a preacher and he has two half-sisters.
  
  
  Claim to fame: Cruz spoke on the Senate floor for more than 21
  hours in September 2013 to protest the inclusion of funding for Obamacare in a federal budget bill.
  (The bill moved forward as written.) He has called for the complete repeal of the medical
  insurance overhaul law, and also for a dismantling of the Internal
  Revenue Service. Cruz is also outspoken about
  border security.
  
  Achilles heel: Cruz's father Rafael, a Texas preacher, is
  a tea party firebrand who has said gay marriage is a government conspiracy and called President Barack Obama a Marxist who should 'go back to Kenya.' Cruz himself also has a reputation as a take-no-prisoners Christian evangelical,
  which might play well in South Carolina but won't
  win him points in the other early primary states and could cost him
  momentum if he should be the GOP's presidential nominee.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Jim Gilmore     Former Virginia governor
  
  Age on Election Day: 67
  
  Religion: United Methodist
  
      Base: Conservatives
  
  Résumé: Former governor and attorney general of Virginia.
  Former chairman of the Republican National Committee. Former
  U.S. Army intelligence agent. President and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation. Board member of the National Rifle Association
  
  Education: B.A. University of Virginia.
  
  Family: Married to Roxane Gatling Gilmore (1977), with two
  adult children. Mrs. GIlmore is a survivor of Hodgkin's lymphoma
  
  Claim to fame: Gilmore presided over Virginia when the 9/11 terrorists struck in 1991, guiding the state through a difficult economic downturn after one of the hijacked airliners crashed
  into the Pentagon. He is nest known in Virginia for eliminating most
  of a much-maligned personal property tax on automobiles,
  working with a Democratic-controlled state legislature to get
  it passed and enacted.
  
  Achilles heel: Gilmore is the only GOP or Democratic candidate for president who has been the chairman of his political party, giving him a rap as
  an 'establishment' candidate. A social-conservative crusader, he
  is loathed by the left for championing the state law that established 24-hour waiting periods for
  abortions. Gilmore also has a reputation as an indecisive campaigner, having dropped out of the 2008
  presidential race in July 2007. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  John Kasich       Ohio governor 
  
  Age on Election Day: 64 
  
  Religion: Anglican
  
  Base: Centrists 
  
  Résumé: Governor of Ohio. Former chairman of the U.S. House Budget Committee.
  Former Ohio congressman. Former Ohio state senator.
  
  
  
  Education: B.A. The Ohio State University.
  
  Family: Married to Karen Waldbillig (1997). Divorced from Mary
  Lee Griffith (1975-1980).
  
  Claim to fame: Kasich was Ohio youngest-ever member of the state legislature at age 25.
  He's known for a compassionate and working-class sensibility that appeals to both
  ends of the political spectrum. In the 1990s when Newt Gingrich led a Republican revolution that took over Congress, Kasich became
  the chairman of the House Budget Committee - a position for a
  wonk's wonk who understands the nuanced intricacies of how government runs.
  
  
  Achilles heel: Some of Kasich's political positions
  rankle conservatives, including his choice to expand Ohio's Medicare system under the Obamacare law, and his support for the much-derided 'Common Core' education standards program. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Rand Paul      Kentucky senator
  
  Age on Election Day: 53
  
  Religion: Presbyterian 
  
  Base: Libertarians 
  
  Résumé: US senator. Board-certified ophthalmologist.
  Former congressional campaign manager for his father Ron Paul.
  
  
  
  Education: Baylor University (did not finish).
  M.D. Duke University School of Medicine.
  
  Family: Married to Kelley Ashby (1990), with three sons.
  His father is a former Texas congressman who ran for president three times but never got close
  to grabbing the brass ring.
  
  Claim to fame: Paul embraces positions that are at odds with most in the GOP, including an anti-interventionist foreign policy,
  reduced military spending, criminal drug sentencing reform for
  African-Americans and strict limits on government electronic surveillance -
  including a clampdown on the National Security Agency.
  
  Achilles heel: Paul's politics are aligned with those of his father, whom mainstream GOPers
  saw as kooky. Both Pauls have advocated for a brand of libertarianism that forces government to stop domestic surveillance programs and limits
  foreign military interventions.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Rick Santorum     Former Penn. senator
  
  
  Age on Election Day: 58
  
  Religion: Catholic
  
  Base: Evangelicals 
  
  Résumé: Former US senator and former member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
  
  Former lobbyist who represented World Wrestling Entertainment.
  
  
  
  Education: B.A. Penn State University. M.B.A.
  University of Pittsburgh. J.D. Penn State University Dickinson School of Law.
  
  
  Family: Married to Karen Santorum (1990), with seven living children. One baby was stillborn in 1996.
  Another, named Isabella, is a special needs child with a genetic disorder.
  
  
  
  Claim to fame: Santorum won the 2012 Republican Iowa Caucuses by a nose.
  
  He won by visiting all of Iowa's 99 states in a pickup truck belonging to his state campaign director, a consultant who now worls for Donald Trump.
  
  
  
  Achilles heel: As a young lobbyist, Santorum persuaded the federal government to exempt pro wrestling from regulations governing the use of anabolic steroids.
  And the stridently conservative politician has attracted strong
  opposition from gay rights groups. One gay columnist held a contest
  to redefine his name, buying the 'santorum.com' domain to advertise the winning entry
  - which is too vulgar to print.
  
   
  
  REPUBLICAN DROPOUTS
  
  Rick Perry, former Texas governor
  
       (withdrew Sept. 11, 2015)
  
  Scott Walker, Wisconsin governor
  
       (withdrew Sept. 21, 2015)
  
  Bobby Jindal, Louisiana governor
  
       (withdrew Nov. 17, 2015)
  
  Lindsey Graham, South Carolina senator
  
       (withdrew Dec. 21, 2015)  
  
   
  
   
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  DEMOCRATS IN THE RACE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Hillary Clinton Former sec. of state
  
  Age on Election Day: 69
  
  Religion: United Methodist 
  
  Base: Liberals 
  
  Résumé:Former secretary of state. Former U.S.
  senator from New York. Former U.S. first lady.
  Former Arkansas first lady. Former law school faculty, University of Arkansas Fayetteville.
  
  
  Education: B.A. Wellesley College. J.D. Yale Law School.
  
  
  
  Family: Married to Bill Clinton (1975), the 42nd President of the United
  States. Their daughter Chelsea is married to investment banker Marc Mezvinsky,
  whose mother was a 1990s one-term Pennsylvania congresswoman.
  
  Claim to fame: Clinton was the first US first lady with a postgraduate
  degree and presaged Obamacare with a failed
  attempt at health care reform in the 1990s.
  
  Achilles heel: A long series of financial and ethical scandals has dogged Clinton,
  including recent allegations that her husband and their family foundation benefited financially from decisions
  she made as secretary of state. Her performance surrounding the 2012 terror attack on a
  State Department facility in Benghazi, Libya, has been catnip for conservative Republicans.
  And her presidential campaign has been marked by an unwillingness to engage journalists, instead meeting with hand-picked groups of voters.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Bernie Sanders*  Vermont senator
  
  Age on Election Day: 75
  
  Religion: Jewish
  
  Base: Far-left progressives
  
  Résumé:U.S. senator. Former U.S. congressman.
  Former mayor of Burlington, VT.
  
  
  Education: B.A. University of Chicago.
  
  Family: Married to Jane O'Meara Sanders (1988),
  a former president of Burlington College. He has one child from a previous relationship and is stepfather to three from Mrs.
  
  Sanders' previous marriage. His brother Larry is a Green Party
  politician in the UK and formerly served on the
  Oxfordshire County Council.
  
  Claim to fame: Sanders is an unusually blunt, and unapologetic pol, happily promoting progressivism without hedging.
  
  He is also the longest-serving 'independent' member of Congress
  - neither Democrat nor Republican.
  
  Achilles heel: Sanders describes himself as a 'democratic socialist.' At a
  time of huge GOP electoral gains, his far-left ideas don't poll well.
  He favors open borders, single-payer universal health insurance, and greater government control over media ownership.
  
  
  * Sanders is running as a Democrat but has no
  party affiliation in the Senate.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Martin O'Malley    Former Maryland governor
  
  Age on Election Day: 53
  
  Religion: Catholic
  
  Base: Centrists 
  
  Résumé:Former Maryland governor. Former city councilor and mayor of Baltimore, MD.
  Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
  
  
  Education: B.A. Catholic University of America.
  J.D. University of Maryland.
  
  Family: Married to Katie Curran (1990) and they have four children. Curran is a district court judge in Baltimore.
  
  Her father is Maryland's attorney general. O'Malley's mother is a
  receptionists in the Capitol Hill office of Democratic
  Sen. Barbara Mikulski.
  
  Claim to fame: O'Malley pushed for laws in Maryland legalizing same-sex marriage and giving illegal immigrants the right to pay reduced tuition rates at public universities.
  But he's best known for playing guitar and sung in a celtic band
  cammed 'O'Malley's March.'
  
  Achilles heel: O'Malley may struggle in the Democratic primary since he
  endorsed Hillary Clinton eight years ago. If he prevails, he will have
  to run far enough to her left to be an easy target for the GOP.
  He showed political weakness when his hand-picked successor lost the 2014 governor's
  race to a Republican. But most troubling is his link with Baltimore, whose 2016
  race riots have made it a nuclear subject for politicians of all
  stripes.
  
  
  
  
  
  DEMOCRATIC DROPOUTS
  
  Jim Webb, former Virginia senator
  
       (withdrew Oct. 20, 2015)
  
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