2016 Campaign Watch

Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s path to the GOP nomination is, to put it mildly, among the most difficult conceived in the modern era of presidential politics. Bloomberg Politics this morning has an article describing what, if any, plausible scenario might wind up pitting Kasich against the Democratic nominee this fall:

Kasich’s Nomination Strategy Is the Highest Wire Act of 2016

John Kasich has fewer delegates than Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who dropped out of the Republican presidential race a month ago. He hasn’t won ...

Conservative policy and political commentator Ramesh Ponnuru has an interesting article at BloombergView.com this morning, offering several observations and pieces of advice for each of the three remaining candidates. Here’s a sample of his comments:

Some Free Advice for Trump, Cruz and Kasich

The Republican nomination race has three more stages to go, and each of the three candidates left in it is concentrating on a different one.

First, the candidates have to win votes in the remaining contests to maximize the number ...

For much of the Democratic nomination fight, the campaign of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced that certain states or dates represented a “firewall,” meaning the point at which she would win in a sufficiently convincing manner that it would erase any and all doubts about her status as the presumptive nominee, and effectively reduce her challenger to little more than an afterthought. Those firewalls have largely failed - even as she won narrowly in her first firewall ...
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