Today is the Nevada caucus and all I can say is….who cares?  It has been a debacle since it began with a little luck this will be the last attempt for them to be relevant…..

The next biggie for the candidates is that ever popular “Super Tuesday”……after the last set of votes each of the major candidates has to spin their butts off to try and keep what support they have now…….so what are they saying?

• Ted Cruz says that his third place finish in South Carolina “effectively tied for second” place with Marco Rubio, who placed second by two-tenths of 1 percentage point over Cruz. He added that “there is now only one strong conservative remaining in this race who can win.”
• Bernie Sanders says his loss to Hillary Clinton in Nevada probably was caused by lower voter turnout. “We will do well when young people, when working-class people come out” to vote. He adds: “We did not do as good a job as I had wanted to bring out a large turnout.”
• RNC Chair Reince Priebus says the party is ready “for anything” at the nominating convention in July, including a brokered convention. “We will be prepared if that happens, but again I don’t think that’s going to be the case.”
• Hillary Clinton says that voters have an “underlying question…is she in it for us or is she in it for herself? That’s a question that people are trying to sort through…I know that I have to make my case.”

That is the candidate’s take on the upcoming set of votes…..who will be the big “winner” in the next vote?

Vital wins for Donald Trump in South Carolina and Hillary Clinton in Nevada have solidified the front-runner status of both candidates—but this election year is far from ordinary and the path to nomination will not be an easy one. Here’s what analysts are looking out for in the days and weeks ahead:

1. The Trump ceiling. After cruising to victory despite having taken on both George W. Bush and Pope Francis, Trump “is seemingly untouchable,” according to USA Today—but as the race heats up, we’ll soon find out whether the long-predicted ceiling to his support actually exists. Politico predicts that he may find it harder to portray himself as the outsider candidate now that Jeb Bush, his favorite establishment “chew toy,” has dropped out.
2. Clinton momentum. Her victory over Bernie Sanders in Nevada was a narrow one, but it was enough to restore the Democratic establishment’s expectation of “a stately march to the nomination for the former first lady,” according to the Globe and Mail. If she wins as expected in South Carolina next week and dominates Super Tuesday, it may be too much for Sanders to bounce back from.

3. Sanders woos minorities. The senator from Vermont “has never in his four-decade political career had to court minority voters,” the Washington Post notes, but he’s going to have to learn fast to have a chance in upcoming contests—including those in Texas, Virginia, and Tennessee—despite promising inroads among Latino voters in Nevada. Sanders aides say they believe his message on economic inequality will appeal to younger voters regardless of race.

• Trouble ahead for Ted Cruz. Cruz, after being labeled a liar by both the Trump and Rubio campaigns, had a worse-than-expected result in South Carolina, which does not bode well for other states with large numbers of conservative Christian voters. The result exposed what “may be a big crack in Cruz’s Southern firewall” and shattered his strategy of riding momentum into Super Tuesday, the National Review notes.
• Sink or swim time for Marco Rubio. Rubio has had some better-than-expected primary results but no wins, which “needs to change soon or else it will become a two-person race,” USA Today notes. With Bush’s exit narrowing the field of establishment candidates, Rubio’s people are about to start “gently cajoling—or elbowing—John Kasich to the exits,” Politico predicts.

Vote for your candidate….but vote for the person that will do the MOST for this country and its people.

If you are voting for your own self-interests then stay home you are doing NOTHING to make this a better country………or stronger….or safer…..