Trump. He announced his campaign by insulting 17% of the US population. He called hispanics rapists and criminals, and wants to build a wall between the US and Mexico. That is what this psychopath built his campaign on. This is reason enough to not vote Trump. But there’s more! He retweets white supremacists, wants to ban all Muslims from entering the US, and has a terrible, awful spray tan. Trump also has no political experience, and when asked about his plans, he provides no detail. His responses are often just, “It’ll happen, don’t worry.” In our nation, we’ve had a black president and many white presidents. Hopefully we never have an orange president (The spray tan really is AWFUL) with terrible ideas like Trump.

Trump, Rubio, and Cruz locked in Polls in Oklahoma!

(with 2% votes in)

Originally, Trump was 13% in front of the second Marco Rubio.  Mr.Rubio had 21%. Cruz was close behind with 18%. Carson and Kasich had a combined 15%, and there was 12.9% undecided.  Trump has been leading, with 33.6%. Cruz is behind with 27.7%. Rubio is behind with 24.6%.  Carson and Kasich have a combined 10.7%

Democrats also have a tight race. Clinton had 40% with Sanders trailing by 9%. Undecided had taken a lot with 29%. As the results are coming in, Clinton is the frontrunner with more than half the percent of the votes. She has 50.2%. Sanders is behind with 44%.

Colorado overall plays a very minor part in the election process. On the night of Super Tuesday, Hillary Clinton is predicted to win the Colorado Democratic Caucuses. There are 66 delegates available this year, so it will play a minor part in becoming president for a candidate.  But, those 66 delegates could be life or death for a losing candidate. As it stands, Hillary Clinton has raised $2,142,095, and Bernie Sanders has raised $672,999. The odds look like they are in Clinton’s favor, so maybe Colorado will be chanting, “Fighting for us!” at the end of the night.

According to FiveThiryEight, Trump has a 52% chance of winning the Arkansas primary. Cruz has a 30% chance and Rubio has an 18% chance. Although Clinton has a 97% chance of winning the Arkansas primary, Sanders runs strong in Arkansas too. Clinton used to live in Arkansas and was first lady there, but Sanders supporters weren’t very hard to find. The Arkansas primary can go either way. Either side can swing one way or the other…

In Massachusetts, the vote is heating up.  47% of the vote so far for the republicans have gone to Donald Trump, compared to only 16% of the vote going to the person in second place, Marco Rubio.  For the Democrats, Hillary Clinton has 55% while Bernie Sanders has a much smaller 38%.  In the exit polls, 66% of the people who want people to “tell it as it is” voted for Donald Trump.  On the Democratic side, 67% of youths in this state vote for Bernie Sanders, while 63% of the women over fifty vote for Clinton.  Back in the 2008 election, Hillary Clinton had the same winning and losing demographics, and she won Massachusetts, so it seems that history might repeat itself with this election.   Something interesting is that 20,000 people from the Democratic party left and went to the Republican party.  Many of these same people voted for Donald Trump, so many people are suspicious that they may have only voted for Trump so that he would lose the General Election.  This seems like a very easy victory for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

The people in Texas rather have there president be an outsider than have experience. 45% want there president to be an outsider and 42% want them to have experience.

For the Republican side the New Hampshire polls were not the outcome.  In the polls it showed Marco Rubio in second place but he ended up with 5th place.  John Kaisich and Jeb Bush both surged ahead in New Hampshire getting second and third.  Even though they did not get anywhere close to Donald Trump they will go home feeling like winners.  Ben Carson is in second to last place for the people that are remaining.  Carson is only ahead of Gilmore who has 0.1%.  Carson is not looking good right now.  After a win in Iowa Ted Cruz gets 4th place in New Hampshire.

On the Democratic side Bernie Sanders dominated Hillary Clinton.  Since Sanders was the governor of Vermont he was loved by Vermont and neighboring states.  It was clear from the beginning that Sanders would win Iowa.  Sanders is in good shape to take the nomination for the Democrats.

The Iowa Democratic Caucuses are  a little different from the Republican Caucuses, and from primary voting. In the Democratic Caucuses,  you first  go to a certain corner of the room to show support for the person you want to win the Caucus. In the first round at Jordan Creek Elementary, Hillary Clinton received 117 votes, and Sanders received 84. That was  a difference of 33. There were also 14 undecided.

After, there is a 30 minute convincing period, where you try to get the undecided to come to your side. You can also try to get people from other candidates to come over to the side you support.

In round two, Clinton received, 130, and Sanders received 85. The difference was then 45.

Finally, the amount of delegates is decided by a large math problem that is set up like this: the number of supporters times the amount of delegates of that location(Which is found by population) divided by the amount of people there, which was 214. In total, Clinton received 4 delegates, and Sanders received 3.

The delegates join together and they officially vote.  They decide the real winners of the Caucus.

The day before the Iowa caucuses a few kids from KidUnity went to Bernie Sanders headquarters. We made many phone calls to convince the people of Iowa to “Feel the Bern”.  Many of the people we called were already voting for Bernie Sanders, but there were some people that we were able to persuade. When we arrived, we spoke to one of the many Bernie Sanders supporters.  He said, “Bernie Sanders was the only good candidate to become president for this country.”