UNITED
STATES PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION,2016
The United
States presidential election of 2016, scheduled for Tuesday, November
8, 2016, will be the 58thquadrennial U.S. presidential
election. Voters will select presidential
electors who in turn will elect a
new president andvice president through the Electoral College. The term limit established in the Twenty-second
Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents
the incumbent President, Barack
Obama, from being elected to a third
term.
The series
of presidential primary
elections and caucuses is
taking place between February 1 and June 2016, staggered among the 50 states,
the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. This nominating process is also
an indirect election, where voters cast ballots for a slate of delegates to a
political party's nominating
convention, who then in turn elect their
party's presidential nominee.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton, who also served in the U.S. Senate and
was the 42nd First Lady of the
United States, became the first Democrat to
announce a major candidacy for the presidency, which she did on April 12, 2015,
via a video message. While Nationwide
opinion polls in 2015 indicated that Clinton
is the front-runner for
the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, she faces challenges from Vermont Senator Bernie
Sanders. Sanders became the second
candidate when he made a formal announcement on April 30 that he was running
for the Democratic nomination. September 2015 polling numbers indicated a
narrowing gap between Clinton and Sanders. Former Governor of Maryland Martin
O'Malley was the third candidate to
enter the race, which he did on May 30, 2015. Lincoln
Chafee, former Independent Governor and
Republican Senator of Rhode
Island, announced his candidacy on June 3,
2015. Former Virginia Senator Jim
Webb announced his candidacy on
July 2, 2015. Harvard law professor Lawrence
Lessig announced his candidacy on
September 6, 2015. On October 20, Jim Webb announced his withdrawal from
the Democratic primaries, and is exploring a potential Independent
run. Former U.S.
Senator from Delaware and incumbent Vice President Joe
Biden opted not to run on October
21, ending months of speculation, stating "While I will not be a
candidate, I will not be silent." Lincoln Chafee withdrew on October
23, stating that he hoped for "an end to the endless wars and the
beginning of a new era for the United States and humanity. Lawrence Lessig
withdrew on November 2, after failing to qualify for the second
officially-sanctioned DNC debate after adoption of a rule change negated polls
which before might have necessitated his inclusion in said debate. Hillary
Clinton won the Iowa Democratic
Caucusby less than one percent. On
February 1, 2016, Martin O'Malley withdrew from the presidential race. Bernie
Sanders won the New Hampshire Primary with sixty percent of the vote, opposed
to Clinton's thirty-eight percent. In Nevada, Hillary Clinton won with
fifty-three percent of the vote while Bernie Sanders had forty-seven percent of
the vote.
Republican Party
United
States Senator Ted Cruz from Texas became the first major candidate to announce a campaign
in the 2016 election, which he did on March 23, 2015. KentuckySenator Rand
Paul became the next candidate to
announce on April 7, 2015. Marco
Rubio, Senator of Florida, became the next candidate, announcing on April
13. Both neurosurgeon Ben
Carson and businesswoman Carly
Fiorina announced their candidacies on
May 4, 2015. Mike Huckabee,
former Governor of Arkansas and 2008presidential
candidate, announced his candidacy the next
day. 2012 presidential
candidate and former Senator from Pennsylvania, Rick
Santorum, announced his campaign on May
27. George Pataki,
a former New York Governor,
was the next to announce, doing so on May 28, 2015. Lindsey
Graham, Senator from South
Carolina, announced he was running on June
1. Former Governor of Texas, Rick
Perry, who also ran in 2012, announced he was running again on June 4. Former
Governor of Florida, Jeb
Bush, joined the race on June
15. Real estate developer and reality TV host, Donald
Trump, announced he was running on June
16. Bobby Jindal,
outgoing Governor ofLouisiana,
announced his campaign on June 24. Governor Chris
Christie of New
Jersey announced he was running on
June 30. Governor of Wisconsin Scott
Walkerannounced his candidacy on July
13. Ohio Governor John
Kasich announced his run on July
21. Former Virginia Governor Jim
Gilmore was the most recent Republican
candidate to announce his candidacy, which he did on July 30, 2015. On
September 11, 2015, Rick Perry withdrew from the race. Scott Walker withdrew on
September 21. Bobby Jindal withdrew his candidacy on November 17. Lindsey
Graham withdrew from the race on December 21. George Pataki withdrew from the
race on December 29. Mike Huckabee withdrew on February 1. Rick Santorum and
Rand Paul both dropped out February 3. Ted Cruz won the Iowa Caucus. Donald Trump won the New Hampshire primaries. Chris
Christie and Carly Fiorina both withdrew from the race on February 10, after
failing to receive high numbers in the Iowa Caucus and the New Hampshire
Primary. Jim Gilmore withdrew from the race on February 12. Jeb Bush withdrew
from the race on February 20, after having receiving bad numbers in the Iowa
Caucus, New Hampshire and South Carolina Primaries
Green Party
Ballot
Access to 296 Electoral Votes: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado,
Delaware, Washington D.C., Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, South
Carolina, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin
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