| John Kasich, the general election's favorite Republican (and the Republicans' fourth-favorite Republican) is out of the race. Bernie Sanders, the general election's favorite Democrat, needs 437% of the remaining delegates to win the Democratic nomination. Primary elections are weird. Honestly, we're a bit surprised that the progressive left, the conservative right and the moderate right haven't joined forces to call for electoral reform. Maybe we're just all waiting to see how this Jim Gilmore thing works out. | | Finally, John Kasich generates some headlines | | John Kasich shocked the political world yesterday as voters finally heard his name repeated enough times to learn how to pronounce it. "Oh, it rhymes with 'basic,'" the GOP electorate said. "We were saying the last syllable like 'itch' this whole time." What came as slightly less of a shock was the announcement that he would end his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. | | Kasich's campaign of positivity and free hugs generated interest from pollsters but never really caught on with voters, who are the ones who tend to select presidents. So for weeks, possibly months, Kasich's strategy was to win the nomination at a contested Republican convention. His only problem was that he needed a strong showing from Ted Cruz in the late states to deny Trump an outright victory, and to make that contested convention dream a reality -- hence the reason he dropped out after losing a state in which he was deliberately not campaigning. | | Don't blame me, that was just my rabid fan base | | What will be worse than watching two wildly unpopular candidates duke it out for the next six months ? Watching their die-hard supporters go after one another. In an interview yesterday on CNN, Donald Trump said that Hillary Clinton was the original "birther," not him. Claims that Barack Obama actually was born in Kenya and thus ineligible for the presidency came to the forefront in 2008, but FactCheck.org says it was Clinton's supporters, not Clinton herself . And then there was Trump's insistence in March (now probably moot) that his supporters would riot if he were denied the Republican nomination, | | Meanwhile, each candidate's supporters took to Twitter to call for the other candidates to drop out of the race (#DropOutTrump, #DropOutHillary and #DropOutBernie ); as of early Thursday, all three candidates remained in the race anyway. At one point in the not-so-recent past, the task of being a campaign's attack dog was given to the vice presidential nominee, who would wind up playing bad cop so the presidential candidate could look like an above-the-fray nice guy. Apparently, that task now can be outsourced to spambots and meme generators. | | Bad news for residents of Arizona, Florida, Ohio, North Carolina and Pennsylvania | | DVR use and Netflix viewership is expected to skyrocket in key swing states this summer. Strategists in both the Clinton and Trump camps have zeroed in on five states that could hold the keys to the Oval Office , and soon will begin choking the airwaves with campaign ads. Trump's task is to hang on to Arizona and North Carolina, two states that Mitt Romney delivered to the GOP in 2012, and to flip Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. That doesn't mean all 45 other states are out of the woods on political advertising; 11 other states -- Oregon, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Virginia, New Hampshire and Georgia -- also are considered swing states in the 2016 general election. Check out 270towin.com's Battleground States map and create your own dream/doomsday scenarios. | | More from the campaign trail | | • | Hillary to coal miners: My solemn vow on national TV to put you out of work was taken out of context (USA TODAY) | | • | Ted Cruz didn't endorse Hillary Clinton yesterday. But hey, the year is still young (USA TODAY OnPolitics) | | • | On the other hand, Hillary has no shortage of anti-Trump comments from former rivals (USA TODAY OnPolitics) | | • | Chris Christie's thousand-yard stare would be a bad look for a VP, say New Jersey voters (Asbury Park Press) | | • | If Trump wants to play the woman card for his VP pick, there's always Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (USA TODAY OnPolitics) | | • | Pro golfers would pay good money not to see Hillary in the Oval Office (For the Win) | | | The odds of navigating a contested convention are approximately 3,720 to 1 | | Yesterday was Star Wars Day, and the @johnkasich Twitter account released this Star Wars-themed video positioning Kasich as the GOP's only hope ... posted just moments before rumors emerged that the candidate was dropping out of the race. Hey, some digital media intern worked really hard on this, and it wasn't like they were just going to let it go to waste. | |
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