MA is among a dozen states to hold primaries and caucuses on Super Tuesday.
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The bay state has 42 of the republican delegates and 91 democrat with 25 additional superdelegates.
Both Democratic presidential candidates are holding rallies in Massachusetts Monday, while Ohio Governor John Kasich is the lone Republican hopeful visiting the commonwealth the day before Super Tuesday.
Those unenrolled however are open to either party.
“The Democratic Party here in MA is neutral until we have a nominee, but that being said we are really excited to see our activists and elected officials across the state really energized and engaged with Senator [Bernie] Sanders’ and Secretary Clinton’s campaigns”, Beaudry said.
A Suffolk University Republican primary poll released Saturday showed real estate mogul Donald Trump leading with 43 percent of the vote to Florida Sen.
That would easily exceed the 500,000 who cast GOP ballots in 2008 and the 370,000 in 2012.
“I think it’s obvious to everyone that the nature and tenor of the Republican contest, both here in MA and throughout the country, is very different from nearly any Republican event we’ve seen in recent times”, said Galvin.
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No more absentee balloting after noon Monday. And though the Mass. GOP picked up several thousand voters from the Democrats, it lost even more in the same period, when 5,911 Republicans left to be unenrolled. Registered Republicans, Democrats and Green-Rainbow party members must vote on their party’s ballot. Just under 35 percent are registered Democrats and fewer than 12 percent are enrolled in the GOP. It’s impossible to know whether those voters intend to support frontrunner Donald Trump – or if they’re actually planning to cast an anti-Trump vote. Ted Cruz at 9 percent and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 4 percent.
