Primary election

Republican candidates could find their carefully arranged schedules completely flipped tomorrow, if Florida decides to move its primary election to January 31 – a month earlier than party leaders expected.

Commentator John Carroll says that regardless of the outcomes of the early primaries, every major presidential candidate has distinguished himself in some dubious way.

54 percent of California voters passed Proposition 14. For more on what this radical measure could mean for the state’s primary calculus, and for politics on the national stage, we’re joined by Bruce Cain, Professor of Political Science at U.C. Berkeley.

Last night, voters decided the party candidates in four closely watched states — Arkansas, California, Nevada, and South Carolina — and seven others. But for many candidates, the election battle is only now beginning.

In an election defined by complaints of partisanship, bruising primaries and the longest of campaigns, how do the rallies of the Republicans and Democrats differ days from the election?