The "Who is running?" tea leaves thread (Part 2)

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Fiorina to announce late April/early May.

Will any other failed Senate candidates run, like Linda McMahon or Sharron Angle?

At least they weren't fired for doing such a sh**tty job as CEO that even Forbes criticized them from the left.

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Carson does a radio interview with Alan Colmes in which he says that it's "likely" that he'll set up an exploratory committee "within the next month or so":

http://radio.foxnews.com/2015/02/04/dr-ben-carson-exploratory-committee-for-president-coming-in-a-month/

In the same interview, he expresses skepticism about evolution:

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I suggest that he go to the top of a building and test whether there's any validity to Newton's theory of gravity since it was debunked by Einstein.

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Chafee is the biggest joke candidate in the history of joke candidates. Your average county board member has more gravitas than him. It's remarkable he's ever been elected to anything.

Surely at least one of Carly Fiornia, Donald Trump, or Ben Carson is more of a joke.

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Announcement Schedule:

Christie: June 30
King, Kasich, Webb: Considering how late it is in June, probably early July
Walker: "Week of July 13"
Biden: By Aug. 1
Gilmore: He plans to participate in the Fox 'Forum' in August, so presumably early to mid july so pollsters start including him in time
Ehrlich: No idea. Seems to have lost all interest in running.

Someone actually has no interest in running?  For 2016 that's a rarity...

There was Bolton, but yeah, it's pretty rare.

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That list of Candidates and status you made should be the OP or the one after it. Only update when necessary.

This way we can see if and when Trump, Graham, Kasich, Santorum, Walker, Bolten, Bush, Christie, Jindal, Pataki, Perry, Ehrlich, Gilmore, King,  Snyder, Palin, and Pence make their decisions.

Ok, since I made this post, who has confirmed that they are/n't running?

Bolten and King aren't, and I don't think Synder, Palin, and Pence are either.

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According to HuffPo, Biden is still considering a campaign. A decision looks to now come by September rather than August.

Damn, he's really Biden his time this time. I thought he was doing that a lot for the 2004 election. He declined to run on August 11 that time.

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Just in case this comes true, I had a weird dream last night that Morden posted a source saying Biden will announce on August 11 that he's not running.

Because of this?

For the 2004 election, he was Biden his time too. Although the decision to not run was made a little earlier; August 11.

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Biden might not make any announcement about running before the end of the year:

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/joe-biden-2016-election-announcement-timing-213801

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There are ballot deadlines well before then. Arkansas (admittedly not the most important primary) seems to be the earliest; November 9th.