With the official entry of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) into the presidential race on March 23rd of this year,  more than four months ago, I decided to log every official entry into the race with a great deal of accompanying data:

1. The candidate’s complete name and current political or professional title.
2. The date, time (when possible), location and method of announcement.
3. A calculation of the number of days before the GE 2016 that the announcement was made.
4. Links to press coverage of the announcement, including an occasional yet very telling screenshot.
5. Sometimes, a screenshot of his/her campaign logo or a video of the announcement as well.
6. The candidate’s WIKI and also his/her campaign website.
7. Best wishes to each and every candidate with the same sentence.

I have logged all of this data in one blog posting HERE for all to access freely. But it’s a lot to sift through, so I also made a very handy-dandy table of the most important data, which you can see HERE.  If you go to the link, you will see that the table will be expanded to include the date of a campaign exit (the candidates usually call it “suspending” their campaign, be we all know it means that they quit the race) and the exact number of days that that campaign was officially in action.

Here is a screenshot of that table for DCW as well: Continue Reading...