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Five more states ready to chip in delegates to Campaign 2016
[Dhaka Tribune] It’s an odd moment in the 2016 campaign: Not even half the states have voted for the party nominees and no candidate has half the delegates needed to win, yet the sense is spreading that it’s practically game over.This weekend, voters in five states and one territory are taking their turn. They possess the power to make  Hillary Clinton... sometimes described as The Liberatress of Libyaand at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John C. Calhoun... and Donald Trump closer to unstoppable or to give the conventional wisdom about one or both front-runners a shake, News Agency that Dare Not be Named reports. A look at a weekend of politicking anchored by primaries and caucuses, capped by a Democratic debate Sunday night: Where? On Saturday, both parties have contests in Kansas and Louisiana. Republicans in Maine and Kentucky and Democrats in Nebraska also vote. On Sunday, Maine Democrats and Puerto Rico Republicans are up. The campaigning Republican Marco Rubio, in a sign of retrenchment or at least strategic focus, canceled Louisiana and Kentucky events Friday, instead landing in Kansas to unload on Trump at a Topeka airport. The Florida senator did so in stark terms, telling a few hundred supporters Trump "accentuates the most dangerous instincts in humanity." Rubio’s Waterloo will be his home-state primary March 15 and Florida is where he’s campaigning the hardest. Trump staged a late rally in New Orleans followed Saturday morning by one set for Wichita, Kansas. Maine also drew considerable attention, with visits in recent days from Democrat Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... , Trump and his GOP rival Ted Cruz. Iffy impact It’s easier for GOP hopefuls to gain delegates in the weekend round of voting than it was in the Super Tuesday extravaganza. That means it’s harder to have a breakout that changes the nature of the race. Candidates in Kentucky must get just 5% of the statewide vote to get delegates, and in Kansas and Maine the bar is 10%. In Louisiana’s primary, there is no threshold to earn a portion of the delegates. Contrast this with 20% thresholds in some other states. And in coming Republican contests, like Florida and Ohio, all delegates in a state will go to the winner, for the first time in the campaign. Posted by: Fred 2016-03-06 |
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