Elections
Federal, State, and Local Election Antics
Ted Cruz Must Have Pissed Him Off
Take that Lucifer….err, Ted.
Bernie Sanders – The New Face of MasterCard
Hey. You gotta make a buck however you can. Right? Bern? Priceless!!
Bernie’s Storm Troopers
Bernie Sanders brought out the big guns–actually, the AT-AT Walkers (All Terrain Armored Transports) for yesterday’s Primary Contests in order to get every last voter to the polls. But, alas and anon, the “Force” was not with him.
Prayers for the “Acela” Primary – Super Duper Tuesday III
What the ‘effing hell is the Acela Primary, you ask?
In this case, however, five states vote Tuesday — Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland and Rhode Island – with 172 delegates available for
Republicans and 462 for Democrats. Like the SEC Super Tuesday, this day is nicknamed the Acela Primary after the train service that connects these five states: the Amtrak Acela Express train, which runs through cities including Providence, Rhode Island; New Haven, Connecticut; Philadelphia; Wilmington, Delaware; and Baltimore.
The cool thing about the Acela Express train is that it is the only high-speed train that runs in the U.S. It travels from Boston’s South Station to Washington’s Union Station in roughly seven hours, with 14 stops on its path. Other states have discussed the idea, though no other region of the nation has yet constructed a comparable system to Acela in the northeast.
Kasich Trial Balloon Deflates
From the NY Times, “Ted Cruz-John Kasich Alliance Against Donald Trump Quickly Weakens“.
The temporary alliance between Senator Ted Cruz and Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, formed to deny Donald J. Trump the Republican presidential
nomination, was already in danger of fraying to the point of irrelevance on Monday, only hours after it was announced to great fanfare.
The agreement, in which the two candidates agreed to cede forthcoming states to one another — Mr. Kasich would, most crucially, stand down in Indiana’s primary on May 3 to give Mr. Cruz a better chance to defeat Mr. Trump there, while Mr. Cruz would leave Oregon and New Mexico to Mr. Kasich — carried the stench of desperation, but initially it seemed like a breakthrough.
