ELECTION 2020

[HairOfTheDog]

Anyway, there's still a long way to go before the Democratic Convention in July.  

Candidates need to have secured 1,991 delegates by then to secure their names on the first ballot.  

Here's where they stand presently.

(HOTD 2/13:  Edited for updated delegate allocation)

If there are still several viable Democratic candidates by Convention time and none has reached 1,991.............that will result in a contested convention.  Hopefully, that won't happen.

The turn out in the Iowa caucus was reportedly about the same as 2016.  But, this week's NH primary broke 2008's turn out record in the state.  Looks like there's high voter enthusiasm.

On the Republican side, President Trump easily won both in Iowa and NH, though his sole competitor Bill Weld did garner 9% in NH.  Between Weld and write-in Republican names, Trump got 83% of the Republican vote in NH.

Refs:
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/10/799979293...dates-have
https://apps.npr.org/liveblogs/20200211-new-hampshire/
https://www.unionleader.com/news/politic...113f3.html