Posted on 08/28/2015 7:24:56 AM PDT by Rufus2007
For at least two days last week, Mobile was the center of the political universe. Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump and his traveling road show descended upon Alabama for an unprecedented political rally at Ladd-Peebles Stadium.
But Trump isn’t the only one in a crowded field of 17 Republican candidates seeking the party’s presidential nomination, making stops in Alabama months before the state’s primary Tuesday, March 1. Six are visiting the Yellowhammer State over a 10-day period this month, including Trump, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Ben Carson, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
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Good sign that candidates are spending time chasing conservative voters in places like Alabama and the other "SEC" states...
Many of the southern states moved their GOP primaries to around March 1.
Previously, as with my state, the GOP primary was held so late in the spring that the nominee was already determined weeks earlier.
The South is in play for the 2016 GOP primary season.
[My state’s primary will be 13 weeks earlier than it was in 2008 and 2012.]
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