2016 Presidential Race

I was debating on what to write my post about for everything in the news recently has already been covered. I saw an article about a 2014 gubernatorial election in NY between Chris Christie and Sen. Barbara Buono.1 The article was commenting on how Christie was going to be releasing his first ad of the campaign and mention his opponent Buono has not yet done an ad. Still not knowing what to write about I went to CNN.com to see what they had for topics and I ended up finding an article called 2016 Poll: Hillary Clinton lapping potential Democratic field. The article was about how in a recent poll asking democratic and democratic leaning voters who they would support in  2016 Hillary Clinton was the top choice followed by Joe Biden. Hillary had 63% of support towards 12%for Biden. This got me thinking on this blog being about the 2016 Presdential Race.2 I know that last November saw the end of the 2012 election but with the 2014 midterm election making an apperance the 2016 election would not be far behind.
 In working on the exercises for this class I found a list of potential presidental candidates for both parties for 2016 through www.2016election.com. If you click on the power Ranking it gives you a list of potential candidates for each party.3 Also on the website are pages for Presidential Odds, one for each party. that also has candidate choices listed but by vegas odds. So going with the Power Ranking we have:

Republicans Potential Candidates
1. Paul Ryan
2. Scott Walker
3. Chri Christie
4. Marco Rubio
5. Jeb Busch
6. Bob McDonnell
7. Kelly Ayotte
8. Rand Paul
9. Rick Santorum
10. John Boehner
11. Colin Powell (lised as a dark horse on www.2016election.com)

Democrats Potential Candidates
1. Hillary Clinton
2. Joe Biden
3. Andrew Cuomo
4. Martin O'Malley
5. Mark Warner
6. Evan Bayh
7. Elizabeth Warren
8. Rahm Emanuel
9. Julian Castro
10.Cory Booker
11. Tim Kaine (lised as a dark horse on www.2016election.com)

Looking at this list I see alot of names I haven't heard off such as Cory Booker, Evan Bayh, Bob McDonnell, and John Boehner. One name I thought would make it but didn't would be Sarah Palin. Also some names I found surprising was Kelly Ayotte and Jeb Busch. I think the two best potential races would be Biden against Ryan or Clinton against Ayotte. Even Rubio verse Clinton matchup would be exciting to see.  In all honestly I would love to see a female nominee in the general election and even win the presidency. How exciting would 2016 election be with both parties having a female nominee.  With that said, in closing I welcome your thoughts on names you found were left out, potential matchups you might want to see, or just any thoughts on this topic.

Bibliography

3. Parkhouse, Nate. "2016 Presidential Power Rankings." 2016 Election. January 31, 2013. Accessed April 30, 2013. http://www.2016election.com/2016-presidential-power-rankings/.

 

2. Steinhauser, Paul. "2016 Poll: Hillary Clinton Lapping Potential Democratic Field." CNN (blog), April 30, 2013. Accessed April 30, 2013. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/30/2016-poll-hillary-clinton-lapping-potential-democratic-field/.

 

1. Walshe, Shushannah. "Chris Christie Launches First Ad Wednesday." ABC News (blog), April 30, 2013. Accessed April 30, 2013. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/04/chris-christie-launches-first-ad-wednesday/.