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The Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016, will take place in the 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories, as well as among U.S. citizens living all over the world,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/DA-D )〕 prior to the 2016 general election to determine the Democratic Party's nominee for the Presidency of the United States. Incumbent president and 2012 nominee Barack Obama is ineligible for reelection, due to term limits under the Twenty-second Amendment. ==Background== In the weeks following the re-election of incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama in the 2012 election, media speculation regarding potential candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2016 presidential election began to circulate. The speculation centered on the prospects of Hillary Clinton, then Secretary of State, making a second presidential bid in the 2016 election. Clinton had previously served as a U.S. Senator (2001–09) and was the First Lady of the U.S. (1993–2001). A January 2013 ''Washington Post''–ABC News poll indicated that she had high popularity among the American public. This polling data prompted numerous political pundits and observers to anticipate that Clinton would mount a second presidential bid in 2016, entering the race as the early front-runner for the Democratic nomination. Within the party's liberal left wing came calls for a more progressive candidate to challenge what was perceived by many within this segment as the party's "establishment". U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren quickly became a highly touted figure within this movement as well as the object of an ongoing draft movement to run in the primaries, despite her repeated denials of interest in doing so.〔 The MoveOn.org campaign 'Run Warren Run', announced that it would disband on June 8, 2015, and instead focus its efforts toward progressive issues.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/02/elizabeth-warren-run-warren-run_n_7489602.html )〕 The draft campaign's New Hampshire staffer Kurt Ehrenberg has joined Bernie Sanders' team and most of the remaining staffers are expected to do the same.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://time.com/3906635/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren/ )〕 Given the historical tendency for sitting Vice Presidents to seek the presidency in election cycles in which the incumbent President is not a candidate, there was also considerable speculation regarding a potential presidential run by incumbent Vice President Joe Biden, who had previously campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination in the election cycles of 1988 and 2008. This speculation was further fueled by Biden's own expressions of interest in a possible run in 2016.〔 Independent U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders is running as a presidential candidate for the Democratic nomination.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/26/bernie-sanders-launches-presidential-campaign )〕 He officially announced his run for candidacy on April 30, 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/us/politics/bernie-sanders-campaign-for-president.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=1 )〕 Bernie Sanders is seen as the biggest rival to Hillary Clinton, backed up by a strong grassroots campaign.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/us/politics/challenging-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-gains-momentum-in-iowa.html )〕 In November 2014 Jim Webb, a former U.S. Senator who had once served as the U.S. Secretary of the Navy during the Reagan administration, announced the formation of an exploratory committee in preparation for a possible run for the Democratic presidential nomination. This made Webb the first major potential candidate to take a formal action toward seeking the party's 2016 nomination.〔 Martin O'Malley, former Governor of Maryland as well as a former Mayor of Baltimore, made formal steps toward a campaign for the party's nomination in January 2015 with the hiring and retaining of personnel who had served the previous year as political operatives in Iowa – the first presidential nominating state in the primary elections cycle – as staff for his political action committee (PAC). O'Malley had started the "O’ Say Can You See" PAC in 2012 which had, prior to 2015, functioned primarily as fundraising vehicles for various Democratic candidates around as well for two 2014 ballot measures in Maryland. With the 2015 staffing moves, the PAC ostensibly became a vehicle for O'Malley – who had for several months openly contemplated a presidential bid – to lay the groundwork for a potential campaign for the party's presidential nomination. In August 2015, Lawrence Lessig unexpectedly announced his intention to enter the race, promising to run if his exploratory committee raised $1 million by Labor Day. After accomplishing this, Lessig announced his formal entrance into race. Lessig has described his candidacy as a referendum on campaign finance reform and electoral reform legislation. His campaign is unique for clearly prioritizing a single issue: restoring democracy via The Citizen Equality Act, a proposal that couples campaign finance reform with other laws aimed at curbing gerrymandering and ensuring voting access.〔Lessig, Lawrence (October 17, 2015) ("Larry Lessig: I’m All In" ), ''The Atlantic''.〕 As of September 2015, the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire have been seen as contested between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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