Now that the two major party nominees have officially accumulated the requisite number of delegates to secure their party’s nomination, I’d like to look forward. How do we improve the nominating process to give us better candidates in the future. Realizing that many reading this do believe that Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton are great […]
Despite the previous Associated Press reports that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton had already officially surpassed the minimum delegate thresholds needed to secure their party nominations, tonight it became official. As the final votes are tallied in California, New Jersey, Montana, New Mexico and the Dakotas, the two celebrity candidates have locked up the delegates […]
Well, it’s been 10 days, time for the grieving process to end. 10 days ago, Donald Trump crushed his opponents in the primary vote in Indiana and within 24 hours his two remaining opponents suspended their campaigns, essentially crowning the billionaire businessman as the presumptive presidential nominee of the Republican party. What Trump accomplished is […]
In case you missed it on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after getting thumped in Tuesday’s five northeast primaries by Donald Trump, Texas Senator Ted Cruz took back the news cycle by making an announcement only surprising in it’s timing: he named former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina as his Vice-Presidential candidate if he earns the […]
In what was highly predictable, Donald Trump won each won all five Atlantic state Republican primaries tonight (Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut and Rhode Island). In the meantime, Hillary Clinton won the biggest Democratic prizes of Pennsylvania and Maryland plus Connecticut and Delaware. Bernie Sanders won just one state, tiny Rhode Island. While Trump still has […]
Even as he is poised to claim his biggest victory yet in Tuesday’s New York primary, Donald Trump is back on the warpath, this time against the Republican National Committee and what he has described as a “rigged” and “corrupt” nomination process. What particularly piqued Trump’s ire is the state of Colorado, which did not […]
After a furious four-week period in which voters in 30 states cast ballots for either the Democratic or Republican presidential nomination, we are now in a period of calm. For the Republicans, there is only one nominating contest in the next 21 days, the Wisconsin primary next Tuesday, April 5th and possibility of a contested […]
Tomorrow the citizens of two more states (Utah and Arizona) will cast ballots for one of the five remaining presidential candidates, with the Democrats also caucusing in Idaho. The Democratic race is functionally over. Even if Bernie Sanders wins every remaining state, Hillary Clinton will still be the nominee, short of a major development in […]
Tomorrow, the voters in five big, important states will state their preferences and have the potential to significantly alter the trajectory of the presidential derby. Those states, most of which will be swing states in the general election, are Florida, Ohio, Illinois, North Carolina and Missouri. Some are calling tomorrow Super Tuesday 2; I’m calling […]
From the very beginning of the 2016 race for the Republican nomination for President of the United States, I was touting the virtues of Ohio Governor John Kasich. I felt that the popular governor of a critical swing state who also had extensive experience in Congress on budget and national security issues had the perfect […]