Tommy Thompson abandons GOP ’08 race

WASHINGTON , Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Former Wisconsin Gov. and Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson Sunday dropped out of the race for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination.

Thompson ended his campaign one day after his poor finish in Saturday’s Iowa Straw Poll.

Asked by CNN what caused his poor showing, Thompson said he wasn’t sure.

“There’s no sense in looking back, you know,” he said. “(I) lost.”

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney finished first in the Iowa Straw Poll, followed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.