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Democratic Sen. Barack Obama will curtail his participation in presidential debates, his campaign has announced.

"Unfortunately, we simply cannot run the kind of campaign we want and need to, engaging with voters in the early states and February 5, if our schedule is dictated by dozens of forums and debates,” campaign manager David Plouffe said in a statement.

"Ultimately, the one group left out of the current schedule is the voters, and they are the ones who ask the toughest questions and most deserve to have those questions answered face to face.

"We simply cannot continue to hopscotch from forum to forum and run a campaign true to the bottom-up movement for change that propelled Barack into this race.”

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  Obama will appear in the eight debates he has committed to. So far, he has participated in seven debates and 19 candidate forums.

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