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WASHINGTON (AFP) – Republicans hoping to dethrone President Barack Obama had digit fewer doable standard bearers, after Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels proclaimed Sun that he had definite not to attain a 2012 White House run.

As the clock ticks down ahead of January's pivotal Chiwere caucuses balloting that launches the presidential election flavour in earnest, Daniels arguably has embellish the most significant politico contender to verify a pass on the race.

With his decision, attention today turns to past Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, who was due to formally foretell in Chiwere on weekday that he has definite to throw his hat into the ring.

Also heading up the lessening earth is bourgeois and past Massachusetts controller Mitt Romney, the putative politico front-runner, who has been vying for the 2012 oratory nearly from the time he lost the 2008 nod to US Senator John McCain.

Another directive contender who has yet to formally foretell is Obama's well-regarded but lowercase famous past diplomatist to China, Jon Huntsman.

Huntsman -- like Romney an follower to the Protestant faith denomination, is a past controller from the western land of Utah. He last week embarked on a five-day, 11-city journeying of New Hampshire, America's first-in-the-nation primary state.

"He module discuss the requirement to get our business concern in order and create jobs as substantially as his proven road record of doing meet that as controller of Utah," his spokesman Tim playwright said New last week.

Daniels, a two-time Indiana governor, for weeks has said that he would not separate unless he could persuade his spouse and quaternary grown daughters first.

He told supporters in an overnight email that in the end, he had been unable to do so.

"I module not be a candidate," he said in a statement published in the Indianapolis Star newspaper, writing that a "woman's caucus" of his kinsfolk members had nixed a White House run.

"Simply put, I encounter myself caught between two duties. I fuck my country; I fuck my kinsfolk more," he wrote.

With his announcement, the erst crowded earth of doable politico contenders has today seen three departures in lowercase more than a week, after past river controller Mike Huckabee and actual estate mogul Donald Trump said that they also had definite not to run.

Daniels was thin among those vying for the nation's maximal duty in that in addition to existence the honcho executive of a US state, he also has vast pedagogue experience feat backwards decades.

He served as a semipolitical strategist for President Ronald President and as budget administrator low president martyr W. Bush, and enjoyed the hold of much of the politico establishment.

But Daniels' wife, Cheri, was said to be uncomfortable with a candidacy. She did not move in her husband's 2004 gubernatorial crusade and has kept her public persona to a minimum.

Speculation about her disinclination over a White House separate centralised on the Daniels' kinda unconventional married history.

In 1993, Cheri filed for split after 15 eld of marriage, touched to Calif. and espouse a doctor, leaving Daniels to care for quaternary daughters, ages octad to 14. Then she divorced again, and remarried Daniels in 1997.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, whose own current effort for the politico oratory is off to a stony start, told CBS television's "Face the Nation" that Daniels was digit of a containerful of contenders who had a actual shot at the nomination.

"He would hit been a very alarming competitor and I really thought he would be in the front runners from period digit if he had definite to run."

Daniels prefabricated his declaration digit period after broadcasting talkshow host bandleader Cain, who erst ran the Godfather's Pizza chain, proclaimed he was running.

The 65-year-old individual dweller bourgeois has never held public office, but has excited whatever standpat voters and activists with the populist, libertarian Tea Party movement, having won different distribute enquiry votes of band faithful early this year.

Gingrich was the prototypal earth politico candidate to formally throw his hat into the ring early this month, but stumbled out of the gate.

He outraged conservatives by occupation an unpopular politico plan to improve the government-funded Medicare upbeat insurance for seniors "right-wing ethnic engineering."

Meanwhile Pawlenty, who is lowercase famous right his home state, is seen to be carefully toeing the band distinction modify as he tries to function himself as an outsider who module shake up Washington.

He module tie a thinning earth of proclaimed and undeclared contenders, among them Hunstman and Romney, past Alaska controller Sarah Palin, Minnesota allegoric Michele Bachmann and past Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum.

Also fresh announcing a long-shot White House effort was US lawmaker Daffo Paul, a libertarian with a diminutive but spirited politico following.

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