Ohio’s presidential primary officially moved
Ohio Governor John Kasich has now signed a bill moving Ohio’s 2016 presidential primary back one week, from March 8th to March 15th. The change aligns with Republican party rules and means that Ohio can award all of the state’s nominating convention delegates to the first place finisher instead of having to divide the delegates up proportionally. This clearly benefits the winner…possibly the man that signed the bill into law. Kasich is strongly considering a run for the Republican presidential nomination and would be expected to do quite well in voting in his own home state. (jj)
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Ohio’s 2016 presidential primary is set for Tuesday, March 8th. But it looks like that it about to change.
In an effort to make sure that the state holds maximum power in next year’s Republican presidential primary contest, the Ohio Senate on Wednesday voted in favor of moving the date of the Buckeye state’s vote. Under GOP party rules, states that hold their primary elections before March 15th cannot be winner-take-all states…meaning that candidates would have to split the state’s available delegates. (Exceptions to this rule are Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.)
If you’re one of the candidates, that has to make for some tricky choices. You”d better be fairly certain of your chances to come in first in a winner-take-all state before you blow through a chunk of your campaign dough only to come up just short and receive nada for your money and effort.
And so, once the bill receives the signature of possible candidate (isn’t that interesting) John Kasich, the date of the primary will move and join Florida, Missouri and (maybe) Illinois in sending voters to the polls on the Ides of March. Good luck, gentlemen…and Carly Fiorina. (jj)
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