Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Battleground Super Tuesday: American Samoa

Perhaps the oddest twist of every primary season is when we have primaries and caucuses in American territories. American Samoa is an American territory. It can vote in the primaries. It has no general election vote. I'm not advocating for the territories to have a Presidential vote, per se, but it does seem odd that they only get a say in the nominations.

Democrats
Hillary won here in 2008, and there's no reason to expect much change. The only question is whether she can beat her 57-42 margin in the territory, or not.

Republicans
Believe it or not, they hold this on a totally separate day, March 22nd. Weird.

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