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US election 2016: Primaries, caucuses and delegates |
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US presidential hopefuls have been trading barbs for months, but now the people get to have a say on who leads their party. Here's a guide to the long and complex primary process and how to keep track of who's winning. |
The primaries and caucuses are all about winning delegates - party members from a state who pledge to endorse a candidate at the party conventions in July. The more state contests a candidate wins, the more delegates will be pledged to support them at the convention. |
The delegate tracker |
Follow the primaries race with the delegate tracker, provided by the Associated Press (AP) |
The totals include the delegates won per state, as well as so-called "unpledged" or "super delegates". They are generally party leaders or elected officials, though the Democrats include former officials as well. Each super delegate is entitled to one vote at the convention. |
AP conducts surveys of these super delegates, and adds them to a candidate's totals if they indicate their support. In the Democratic race, Hillary Clinton has gained the support of more than 300 super delegates so far. |
Super delegates can - and do - change their minds during the course of the campaign, so the figures may shift as the race unfolds. |
The delegate tracker is updated automatically. There may be a short delay between the delegates being assigned and the totals changing. |
How do you win? |
As President Barack Obama cannot run again, both parties are holding competitive primaries this year. |
The Republican candidate will need 1,237 delegates to win a majority, while the Democratic contender must secure 2,383. |
US election: Iowa caucus results |
US election: New Hampshire primary results |
What's the difference between a primary and a caucus? |
There are several types of primary with different rules and methods used to win delegates. |
"Open" primaries are open to all registered voters in that state, and they can vote for any candidate. A Republican voter can vote in the state's Democratic primary, and vice versa for example. |
In a "closed" primary, only registered voters affiliated with each party in that state can vote. |
In addition, there are also "semi-closed" primaries where voting is closed to registered members of the other party, but open to independents. There are about a half-dozen states that do this, including key early voting New Hampshire. |
Caucuses are a series of meetings in which voters show their support for candidates with an open show of hands. Usually only registered voters, affiliated with that specific party, can take part. |
When do they take place? |
Image caption Presidential candidates cannot afford to ignore the two states which get to go first and second |
The primary calendar lasts right up until June, but the early contests are most interesting as indicators of who will take the eventual crown. |
The race usually reaches a climax on 1 March or 'Super Tuesday', with no less than 13 states holding primaries or caucuses for one or both parties on the same day. |
Both parties hold primaries / caucuses on the same day (unless indicated) |
Candidates seek to build momentum and stay in the race. |
1 Feb: Iowa Caucuses |
9 Feb: New Hampshire Primary |
20 Feb: Nevada Caucuses (Democratic), South Carolina Primary (Republican) |
23 Feb: Nevada Caucuses (Republican) |
27 Feb: South Carolina Primary (Democratic) |
Thirteen states vote on 'Super Tuesday', including six across the South. An opportunity to run the tables, and look like the 'invincible candidate', but the delegate maths can't be decided at this point. |
1 March - 'Super Tuesday': Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia Primaries; Minnesota Caucuses, Alaska & Wyoming Caucuses (Republican), Colorado Caucuses (Democratic) |
5 March: Kansas Caucuses, Louisiana Primary, Kentucky & Maine Caucuses (Republican), Nebraska Caucuses (Democratic) |
6 March: Maine Caucuses (Democratic) |
8 March: Hawaii & Idaho Caucuses (Republican), Idaho Primary (Republican), Michigan & Mississippi Primaries |
Big states with lots of delegates up for grabs, especially where it's winner takes all. Also swing states where electorates are more moderate so there's potential for an establishment candidate to make a comeback. |
26 March: Alaska, Hawaii, Washington Caucuses (Democratic) |
These races may be more important than usual for the Republican race due to number of well-funded candidates this year, who may have the staying power to remain contenders until April. |
1 April: North Dakota Caucuses (Republican) |
5 April: Wisconsin Primary |
9 April: Wyoming Caucuses (Democratic) |
19 April: New York Primary |
26 April: Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island Primaries |
3 May: Indiana Primary |
10 May: West Virginia Primary, Nebraska Primary (Republican) |
17 May: Oregon Primary, Kentucky Primary (Democratic) |
24 May: Washington Primary (Republican) |
7 June: California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota Primaries; North Dakota Caucuses (Democratic) |
14 June: District of Columbia Primary (Democratic) |
18-21 July: Republican National Convention |
25-28 July: Democratic National Convention |
Does the brain really "cause" consciousness? |
Discussion in 'General Philosophy' started by Magical Realist, Dec 8, 2012. |
1. hansda Valued Senior Member |
Soul is to explain some physical phenomena for which no physical cause is observed. |
This physical phenomena in question is "decreasing entropy of a living cell". |
There is no physical difference between a living cell and a dead cell. Had there been any physical difference between a living cell and a dead cell, the phenomena of 'decreasing entropy in a living cell' could have been attributed to that physical difference. But no such physical difference is observed. |
So, the logical conclusion to explain the physical phenomena of "decreasing entropy of a living cell" is some non-physical existence. |
Soul is just the name given to this non-physical existence. |
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Yes, I do and agree with your point, but I have never made either of those claims. In fact just the opposite: I have shown that Genuine Free Will, is NOT necessarily in conflict with laws of nature or our current understanding of neural processes: |
Please read full post at: Even if done with care and thought, that will take less than 5 minutes. If you can afford that then take a look at post 10, where I clarify some things than Valich asked about in posts 8 & 9. |
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5. gmilam Valued Senior Member |
A cell is not a closed system, so "decreasing entropy" is not a problem. So there is no need for a "non-physical existence". |
Change "non-physical existence" to "physical process" and we're good to go. |
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7. hansda Valued Senior Member |
I am not denying the physical processes happening in a living cell. I am also not denying the presence of four physical forces in a living cell. |
I am only saying is that there is a fifth force present in the living cell. This fifth force is non-physical but can cause physical effect like 'decreasing entropy'. This fifth force can be named as Life-Force. |
This life-force is present in the living cell within its membrane and makes it alive. |
Absence of this life-force turns the living cell as a dead cell. |
8. hansda Valued Senior Member |
A dead cell is also not a closed system but its entropy increases. |
Be specific about the "physical cause" or "physical process" which is decreasing entropy of a living cell. |
Your request mainly show how little you understand. There is no "entropy decreasing process" but thousands of different living processes that have as the net result the resistance of the natural tendency of entropy to increase. I gave one set of processes in post 498 related to wound healing processes that resist e... |
Your stupid question/ request is like asking for a description of the process than gives 78 years as the average US male life expectancy. That, like homostatus (maintance of low entropy organized state of living beings), is a result OF THOUSANDS OF SEPARATE processes - for example skill in safely driving cars, taki... |
10. Syne Sine qua non Valued Senior Member |
You whole theory is centered around the notion that everything to do with free will is a part of some simulation, and as such is only splitting hairs to say it does not involve illusion. |
No what your directly experience is not an illusion (normally*). - It is the ONLY thing you are completely sure is real. The so called "external world," which as a physics Ph.D. I assume does exist, may only be an invention of the mind** as it is only INFERRED to exist from what is certainly real - the world we dir... |
Also noted it is not just things "related to free will" but everything I experience including "me" (quotes used to clearly refer to my psychological self, not my body) that is part of the parietal Real Time Simulation, RTS. For example that is why the "phantom limb" is experienced as just as real as the still exist... |
** Or as Bishop Berkeley demonstrated with logic that has never been refuted, despite hundreds of wise men trying during the last 300+ years, the "real world" could be the illusionary gift of a "greater spirit" than your own disembodied spirit. I especially like his reasoning as to why the "real world" seems to fol... |
I differ most fundamentally from Berkeley´s POV in that I postulate that real "real world" with its, never violated "physical laws" (no miracles for me thank you) is founded (or INFERRED FROM) the world I know exists with zero possibility of error as I experience it*. I strongly suspect that this world I directly e... |
* This is NOT an assertion that there is complete one-to-one perfect correspondence between the world I know exist by direct experience and the world I infer to exist from that direct experience. With all my training / education getting a Ph.D. in physics, I firmly believe that the inferred world is the factual one... |
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12. Syne Sine qua non Valued Senior Member |
Generally, most of your posts can be considered argumentum verbosium, especially with all of the asterisks that could just as easily be made inline. Here is a hint. If a digression would be so long as to interrupt the thrust of your point then it is probably superfluous (or at least greatly hinders readability and ... |
Any chance you could summarize, without all of the ancillary justifications? You know, just the facts as they pertain to consciousness/free will? Perception does not necessarily pertain, as one perception does not have a one-for-one comparison to all others, aside from hasty generalization. |
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