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FACTBOX: Key dates in the presidential campaign

Wed Jun 4, 2008 1:07pm EDT

(Reuters) - Below is a calendar of the major events in the 2008 U.S. presidential election campaign.

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Arizona Sen. John McCain is the presumptive Republican nominee. Illinois Sen. Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday night.

JUNE

* June 20: Candidates' May fundraising details to be released.

AUGUST

* August 25-28: Democratic National Convention in Denver

SEPTEMBER

* September 1-4: Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota

* September 26: Presidential debate in Oxford, Mississippi.

OCTOBER

* October 2: Vice presidential debate in St. Louis, Missouri.

* October 7: Presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee.

* October 15: Presidential debate in Hempstead, New York

NOVEMBER

* November 4: Election Day

(To read more about the U.S. political campaign, visit Reuters "Tales from the Trail: 2008" online at blogs.reuters.com/trail08/)

(Writing by Jeff Mason and Paul Grant, Washington Editorial Reference Unit),
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