Also this week, the remaining crop of presidential hopefuls square off in New Hampshire in the second
major early contest of the 2016 election cycle.
The Nuffield studies quickly stimulated by - products in works
about earlier contests - Trevor Lloyd on 1880, Alan Russell on 1906, Neal Blewett on the 1910 contests, Alan Thorpe on 1931 and Tom Stannage on 1935.
With the state awarding a high number of delegates to each party, the move would make California's contest more consequential for candidates seeking momentum in
the early contests but would present challenges in purchasing advertisements in the expensive Los Angeles and San Francisco media markets.
The scenario in which someone gets in the race late would have be a Cain - like implosion by Newt after he does well in
the early contests, with Romney discredited by poor showings.
Howard Dean's short - lived juggernaut had galvanized much of the party's progressive base, sapping whatever support Kucinich might have been able to muster in
the early contests.
But the home affairs spokesman is still relatively unknown to many members and could well lose
an early contest to environment spokesman Chris Huhne, who made a name for himself by running against Sir Menzies last time round.
Below it are two healed wounds of
an earlier contest the mosasaur survived.
To check out the connective tissue attaching today's Run for the Roses and
those early contests on the steppes of Eurasia, try this link.