Now that all the hype over Super-Duper-Ultra-Mega-Hyper Tuesday (or something like that), people are now realizing that, with no winner yet decided in either party, there will be more primaries and caucuses to come. But because primaries after early February have rarely mattered recently, few know exactly what the calendar looks like. Without further ado, here is a preview of some of the upcoming primaries...
Democrats
2/9
Louisiana primary: 56 delegates
Nebraska caucus: 16 delegates (8 to be chosen 6/28)
Virgin Islands caucus: 6 delegates with 1/2 vote each
Washington caucus: 78 delegates
2/10
Maine caucus: 24 delegates
2/12
DC primary: 15 delegates (they have 23 unpledged superdelegates)
Maryland primary: 70 delegates
Virginia primary: 83 delegates
Republicans
2/9
Louisiana primary: 20 delegates (24 to be chosen at 2/16 caucus)
Washington caucus: 18 delegates (19 to be chosen at 2/19 primary)
Kansas caucus: 36 delegates
2/12
DC primary: 16 delegates
Maryland primary: 34 delegates
Virginia primary: 63 delegates
2/16
Guam caucus: 6 delegates
Louisiana caucus: 24 delegates (see above)
In any case, however, unless some candidate for either party sweeps nearly all of these elections, they will decide very little and it will be a long, hard race.
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don't forget to mention the super-delegates - take for example, marin county: even though the people overwhelmingly voted for Obama, their representative delegate intends to vote for Clinton.
Yes, super delagates haven't been differentiated on the channels such as CNN. This could affect the actual outcome of the number of delegates a candadate actually gets. The Democratic race is especially interesting to me because if Hilary wins the nomination we could have a closer general election than we thought. Even though most people predict a democratic president next due to Bush's performance, it may not be as easy if Hilary is the Democratic nominee.
I just read an update from the AP that says: "Mitt Romney will either suspend his presidential campaign or withdraw completely from the presidential race." Once he pulls out of the race it'll be interesting to see if he is going to endorse McCain or Huckabee. I'm surprised Huckabee hasn't dropped out yet considering he has less delegates than Romney.
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