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Wednesday, February 03, 2016

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Monday nights caucus losers brought about a few changes. On the Democratic side, Martin O'Malley dropped out of the race leaving Hillary and Bernie to duke it out the rest of the way. On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee called it quits. Rand Paul just announced that he is suspending his bid. With the New Hampshire primaries next Tuesday, I expect there to be more winnowing one week from today.

The Republicans have Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, John Kasich, Carly Fiorina, Rick Santorum and Jim Gilmore left. I'm not sure why Fiorina, Santorum and Gilmore are still in the race. What are their campaign people telling them?  Take a look at Fiorina's after party in Iowa.

No candidate. No people. Wow.

And, honestly, what are Bush, Kasich and Christie hoping for? I know they are sticking around for some sort of lift in New Hampshire but they need to face the facts. This is now a three horse race. 


Aw, snap!



1 comment:

blk said...

Santorum's people are apparently telling him to get out of the race:

http://www.vox.com/2016/2/3/10906752/rick-santorum-presidential-campaign

The others are still in because of vanity, stubbornness or because they're making a lot of money by pretending to run for president, leeching off the dole from billionaires who want to buy their own personal politicians, or hoping to hang in long enough to get lucrative contracts being commentators for Fox news.