primary elections

Since election campaigns start earlier every cycle, why not speculate on who will throw their hat into the ring for the Republicans in 2024. Here's my list. some are serious, some are half-joking. Donald Trump - Socialite turned game show host who lost the 2020 election1 Tom Cotton - Senator...

After hearing for most of the last four years that the GOP was nominating far too radical candidates, it seems the shoe is on the other foot: You know how it is, the Elizabeth Warren wing of the Democratic Party can win in Massachusetts. But Iowa? Err, his record of doing those things? Or...

Article: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/03/not-so-fast-halter-primaries-lincoln/36804/ It's about time someone stood up to the corrupt Lincoln from Arkansas; she joined Nelson and Lieberman as one of the few non-Republicans who opposed the public option. Proof...

Here is a link to the state primaries of 2010. http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G10/events.phtml?format=chronological

There was an exchange over on the Sarah Palin threads that raises an interesting question. The discussion was if the Dems should want Sarah Palin to run or not. Here was the gist of the exchange: As a liberal in heavily conservative Texas, I often vote in the Republican primaries. The reason...

BOth the Dem and GOP primaries are in a dead heat, with recounts almost a certainity. Illinois Politics, it never fails to provide entertainment.....

Well, Hillary agreed to give Obama her delegates. Oh, surprise! Florida and Michigan's delegates' votes will "count" now. count : v not count; be meaningless; be pointless; q.v. moot Now that the other candidate has given up, we can count the FUBARed votes from the states that would...

I'm curious why there seems to be no discussion of this. She's carrying on as if this is some sort of vital civil rights crusade and not just a desperate attempt to claw her way to the nomination. As I see it, she hasn't got a leg to stand on when insisting that the votes count "exactly as...

And the totals so far: Indiana Clinton: 57% Obama: 43% North Carolina Obama: 65% Clinton: 35% So is this thing going to Colorado or what?

...and after all that, I didn't even get to be a delegate to the state convention... So last Saturday, March 29, I and about 1,300 of my fellow citizens in Texas State Senatorial District 25, all tried to get in to the San Antonio Municipal Auditorium at the same time. (There's more than enough...

I was just looking at CNNs politics page and after Mississippi it shows the delegate count at: Obama: 1608 Clinton: 1478 That gives Obama a 130 delegate lead. With the number of remaining delegates dwindling and only 400ish more needed for Obama (compared to 530ish for Clinton) is it even...

Democrats: Texas: Clinton 47% Obama 44% Ohio: Clinton 52% Obama 46% Republicans: Texas: McCain 63% Huckabee 20% Ohio: McCain 70% Huckabee 19%

The media and the Mac supporters have all been exaggerating John McCain's popularity in the recent primaries. If I was to ask you how many more votes did McCain get than Romney, I bet you would say twice as many. But, that wouldn't even be close. Here are vote totals so far... McCain....4.7...

I've just come back from my local voting site, having at the last minute changed my mind and voted for Barack Obama instead of Hillary Clinton. I guess there's only one more thing to say now: Barack Obama for President! :D

Recent polls show that the race in California has tightened up If Obama can prevail in California, the biggest state population-wise and delegate-wise, it would be a major coup. The three most recent polls actually give him a slight edge. Hillary had a very wide lead in the state until recently.

Obama scored a big win in the South Carolina primary. It was not even close. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/south_carolina_primary

As a Brit, I'm a little confused by the whole concept of the Primaries. They seem so very superfluous... Why don't the parties just conduct a mail ballot of party members to pick the preferred candidate? Why is all this money and time and effort spent on traipsing round the country? In essence...

I hate them, never vote in them. I find them to be a pox on democracy. If you want to run for office, then run for office. How is it legal that our tax dollars go to fund primaries for a couple of major politcial parties. The whole system is designed to consolidate the power of those already in...