2016 Campaign Watch

Five states hold primary elections today, and on the Republican side the Northern Mariana Islands territory has already held caucuses as well (the islands are on the other side of the international date line, and so today’s caucuses have already come and gone – businessman Donald Trump won, receiving all nine delegates). This morning the media is filled with expectation-setting and explanations of what the various outcomes might mean. Here is some of what The New York Times will be ...
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Several large states vote tomorrow including two states, Florida and Ohio, that are home to two of the four remaining Republican candidates for president. Both are winner-take-all on the GOP side, raising the stakes significantly from past contests where delegates were divvied up between competing candidates in most cases.

While businessman Donald Trump leads Sen. Marco Rubio in Rubio’s home state of Florida according to recent polling, the race in Ohio is neck-and-neck between Trump and Gov. John Kasich, as CBS ...
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Following a second-place finish in the Nevada caucuses that many thought established him as the leading alternative to frontrunner Donald Trump, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has seen his campaign stumble badly, winning only two contests (Minnesota and Puerto Rico) while coming in behind Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in most of the primaries and caucuses since and even coming in behind Ohio Gov. John Kasich in several states. Over at FiveThirtyEight.com, data guru Nate Silver diagnoses a key shortcoming of the ...
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