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The 2012 District of Columbia Republican presidential primary was held on April 3, 2012, [6] [7] [8] the same day as the Maryland and Wisconsin Republican primaries.
Since the enactment of the 23rd amendment to the Constitution in 1961, [1] the District of Columbia has participated in 16 presidential elections.The amendment states that it cannot have any more electoral votes than the state with the smallest number of electors. [2]
The 2012 election marked the first time since Franklin D. Roosevelt's last two re-elections in 1940 and 1944 that the Democrats won a majority of the popular vote in two consecutive elections. [152] Obama was also the first president of either party to secure a majority of the popular vote in two elections since Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 ...
The 2012 United States elections took place on November 6, 2012. Democratic President Barack Obama won reelection to a second term and the Democrats gained seats in both chambers of Congress , retaining control of the Senate even though the Republican Party retained control of the House of Representatives .
Super Tuesday 2012 took place March 6, when the most simultaneous state presidential primary elections was held in the United States. This election cycle's edition of Super Tuesday, where 17.1 percent of all delegates was allocated, was considerably smaller than the 2008 edition , where 41.5 percent of all delegates was allocated (twenty-one ...
The District of Columbia Republican Party decided not to allow write-in votes for the primary. [7] The District of Columbia's three superdelegates are Chairman Bob Kabel, Republican National Committeewoman Betsy Werronen, and Republican National Committeeman Tony Parker. [8] Kabel and Werronen both support Mitt Romney. [8] [9]
Super Tuesday 2012 is the name for March 6, 2012, the day on which the largest simultaneous number of state presidential primary elections was held in the United States. It included Republican primaries in seven states and caucuses in three states, totaling 419 delegates (18.2% of the total).
WASHINGTON - Allan Lichtman, the historian who correctly predicted the outcome of 9 out of the 10 most recent presidential elections, has made his guess on who will reclaim the White House this year.