Warner bows out of White House bid

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

Fifteen months before the first vote is cast in a presidential primary, the departure of the centrist Democrat and former Virginia governor alters the dynamics of a race still taking shape. The line-up for 2008, however, remains largely the same – Clinton and about a dozen others.