Post your PROMINENT 2016 Endorsements Here

[Free Bird]

Of course, the endorsement maps that go up later show us everything. But what are the races you actually care about, and don't just fill out because you have to?

President:
Rand Paul

Governor:
John Gregg
Jim Justice
Chris Sununu
Steve Bullock
Pat McCrory
Pete Shumlin

Senate:
Russ Feingold
Rob Portman
Pat Toomey
Rand Paul
Ron Wyden
Chuck Grassley
Mike Lee
Patrick Leahy
John Thune
John Hoeven
Lisa Murkowski
Tim Scott
Marlin Stutzman 

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Unfortunately my highly sought-after endorsement can only be gained by a fat cheque signed to me.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Ted Strickland
CCM
Bennet
Roy Cooper
Bullock
Duckworth
Conway
Kirkpatrick
Feingold

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

President:
Undecided. Paul or Huckabee likely. Christie, Walker, and even Rubio or Jindal possible. Let's see how the field shapes up.

Governor:
Hassan (if she runs)
McCrory

Senate:
Feingold
Toomey
Wyden
Murkowski
Scott
Duckworth
Whoever faces Bennet. Literally anyone (Dare I say, Ken Buck inclusive....blech) is better.

The rest will be decided when we have more definitive matchups. Too early to judge though I'm sure Grassley will likely be getting my support. Don't love Portman, but he's better than Strickland if that's what we get.

[ElectionsGuy]

Wisconsin endorsements. This may sound bad but I don't care too much about endorsements for other races.

President:
Rand Paul (R-KY). Gary Johnson (L-NM)

Senate:
Undecided

House:
Paul Ryan (R, WI-1)

State Assembly:
Cody Horlacher (R, AD-33)

italicized = likely endorsements.

[Oak Hills]

Wisconsin endorsements. This may sound bad but I don't care too much about endorsements for other races.

President:
Rand Paul (R-KY). Gary Johnson (L-NM)

Senate:
Undecided

House:
Paul Ryan (R, WI-1)

State Assembly:
Cody Horlacher (R, AD-33)

italicized = likely endorsements.

I don't think there's anything bad about only having an opinion about races you have a vote in, especially this far out.

[Indy Texas]

Roy Cooper (NC-Gov)

[Illuminati Blood Drinker]

President:
Bernie Sanders (will change to Clinton when if she wins the primary)

Governor:
Roy Cooper

Senate:
Ted Strickland
Pat Murphy
Maggie Hassan (if she runs)
Russ Feingold
Tammy Duckworth
Kamala Harris

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

I'm still completely undecided on quite a few races, but here's what I've decided so far:

President - John Kasich (R)
Vice President - Susana Martinez (R)

Governor:

Kentucky(2015): Jack Conway (D)
Louisiana(2015): Jay Dardenne (R)
Mississippi(2015): Phil Bryant (R) (The democratic candidates are literal jokes)
Indiana: Undecided on the democratic primary; not endorsing Pence
Missouri: Chris Koster (D)
Montana: Steve Bullock (D)
Utah: Gary Herbert (R)

Senate:

Alabama: Richard Shelby (R)
Alaska: Lisa Murkowski (R)
Arizona: Undecided on the democratic primary; not endorsing McCain
Colorado: Undecided on the republican primary; not endorsing Bennet
Florida: Patrick Murphy (D)
Idaho: Mike Crapo (R)
Illinois: Mark Kirk (R)
Iowa: Chuck Grassley (R)
Kansas: Jerry Moran (R)
Missouri: Roy Blunt (R)
Nevada: Joe Heck (R)
New Hampshire: Kelly Ayotte (R)
New York: ANYONE BUT SCHUMER
North Carolina: Kay Hagan (D)
North Dakota: John Hoeven (R)
Ohio: Ted Strickland (D)
Oregon: Ron Wyden (D)
Pennsylvania: Joe Sestak (D)
South Carolina: Tim Scott (R)
South Dakota: John Thune (R)
Wisconsin: Russ Feingold (D)

[LeBron]

I'm still completely undecided on quite a few races, but here's what I've decided so far:

President - John Kasich (R)
Vice President - Susana Martinez (R)

Governor:

Kentucky(2015): Jack Conway (D)
Louisiana(2015): Jay Dardenne (R)
Mississippi(2015): Phil Bryant (R) (The democratic candidates are literal jokes)
Indiana: Undecided on the democratic primary; not endorsing Pence
Missouri: Chris Koster (D)
Montana: Steve Bullock (D)
Utah: Gary Herbert (R)

Senate:

Alabama: Richard Shelby (R)
Alaska: Lisa Murkowski (R)
Arizona: Undecided on the democratic primary; not endorsing McCain
Colorado: Undecided on the republican primary; not endorsing Bennet
Florida: Patrick Murphy (D)
Idaho: Mike Crapo (R)
Illinois: Mark Kirk (R)
Iowa: Chuck Grassley (R)
Kansas: Jerry Moran (R)
Missouri: Roy Blunt (R)
Nevada: Joe Heck (R)
New Hampshire: Kelly Ayotte (R)
New York: ANYONE BUT SCHUMER
North Carolina: Kay Hagan (D)
North Dakota: John Hoeven (R)
Ohio: Ted Strickland (D)
Oregon: Ron Wyden (D)
Pennsylvania: Joe Sestak (D)
South Carolina: Tim Scott (R)
South Dakota: John Thune (R)
Wisconsin: Russ Feingold (D)

You have got to be kidding me...

[Mr. Illini]

Duckworth

Well, that was quick. Dropping on Andrea Zopp already?

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Pres:  Paul, Kasich

Sen:
KY- Paul
WA- Wyden
WI- Feingold
UT- Lee

Gov:
IN- Pence
UT- Herbert

House:
Justin Amash
Walter Jones
Scott Rigell

[Miles]

Limiting it to my handful of most enthusiastic endorsements:

NC- Cooper
NV- Cortez Masto
CO- Bennet
FL- Murphy
WI- Feingold
CA- Harris

If we can go further downballot, I'd also add Josh Stein for NC AG.

[Mr. Illini]

As for me as follows. I only listed endorsements for what are expected to be competitive races or primaries, of course. My endorsement of Pat Leahy, Ron Wyden, etc, go unspoken. I also have only included candidates that are announced as running.

President of the United States


United States Senate

Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
Russ Feingold (D-WI)
Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ)
Ted Strickland (D-OH)
Patrick Murphy (D-FL)
Joe Sestak (D-PA)
Kamala Harris (D-CA)
Michael Bennett (D-CO)
Catherine Mastro (D-NV)
Donna Edwards (D-MD)

United States House of Representatives

Brad Schneider (D-IL)
Emily Cain (D-ME)
John Delaney (D-MD)
Brad Ashford (D-NE)

State Governors

Roy Cooper (D-NC)
John Gregg (D-IN)

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

I'm still completely undecided on quite a few races, but here's what I've decided so far:

President - John Kasich (R)
Vice President - Susana Martinez (R)

Governor:

Kentucky(2015): Jack Conway (D)
Louisiana(2015): Jay Dardenne (R)
Mississippi(2015): Phil Bryant (R) (The democratic candidates are literal jokes)
Indiana: Undecided on the democratic primary; not endorsing Pence
Missouri: Chris Koster (D)
Montana: Steve Bullock (D)
Utah: Gary Herbert (R)

Senate:

Alabama: Richard Shelby (R)
Alaska: Lisa Murkowski (R)
Arizona: Undecided on the democratic primary; not endorsing McCain
Colorado: Undecided on the republican primary; not endorsing Bennet
Florida: Patrick Murphy (D)
Idaho: Mike Crapo (R)
Illinois: Mark Kirk (R)
Iowa: Chuck Grassley (R)
Kansas: Jerry Moran (R)
Missouri: Roy Blunt (R)
Nevada: Joe Heck (R)
New Hampshire: Kelly Ayotte (R)
New York: ANYONE BUT SCHUMER
North Carolina: Kay Hagan (D)
North Dakota: John Hoeven (R)
Ohio: Ted Strickland (D)
Oregon: Ron Wyden (D)
Pennsylvania: Joe Sestak (D)
South Carolina: Tim Scott (R)
South Dakota: John Thune (R)
Wisconsin: Russ Feingold (D)

You have got to be kidding me...

Not endorsing Johnson. That one is really a "I can't stand the other candidate endorsement". And for Alabama, I don't endorse joke candidates, which AL democrats always are.

[Maxwell]

I'll just do my state:

President: Rand Paul
Senate: Whoever is opposing Lankford, primary or otherwise
Congress: Jim Bridenstine

[NewYorkExpress]

2015 Elections

Mississippi Attorney General-Jim Hood (D)

2016 Presidential Election

Arizona U.S Senate Ann Kirkpatrick

California-U.S Senate Kamala Harris

Illinois-U.S Senate Senate Tammy Duckworth

Iowa- U.S Senate Chet Culver

Maryland- U.S Senate Donna Edwards

Wisconsin-U.S Senate Russ Feingold


Will add further endorsements as events warrant.

[TNF]

President - No idea. Will end up voting for whichever socialist party gets a candidate on the ballot in Illinois, and if none do, I'll probably just not vote or write that person in.

Senate - Probably no one to vote for

House - See President and Senate

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

I'll just do the ones I can actually vote in for now:

For President of the United States
Hillary Rodham Clinton (Democratic)

For U.S. Senator
Baron Hill (Democratic)

For Governor of Indiana
John Gregg (Democratic)

For State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Glenda Ritz (Democratic)<sup>1

1</sup> Assuming she looses the gubernatorial primary.

[VPH]

President
Bernie Sanders

US Senate
FL: Alan Grayson
IL: Tammy Duckworth
IN: Baron Hill
KS: Whoever runs against Moran (Hopefully one of Carl Brewer, Joe Reardon, Dennis McKinney, or Kathleen Sebelius)
MO: Jason Kander
OH: Ted Strickland
WI: Russ Feingold

Governors
MO: Chris Koster
NC: Roy Cooper
KY: Jack Conway
VT: Shap Smith

House of Representatives
CA-16: Jim Costa
CA-21: David Valadao
CA-22: Devin Nunes
CA-52: Scott Peters
KS-01,02,03,04: Whichever Democrat runs
KS-01 (GOP Primary): Alan LaPolice
ME-02: Emily Cain
NC-03 (GOP Primary not general): Walter Jones
NH-01: Carol Shea Porter
OH-13: Tim Ryan
TX-23: Pete Gallego

Kansas State Senate
District 19: Anthony Hensley
District 29: Oletha Faust Goudeau
District 31: Carolyn McGinn

[Boston Bread]

President: Sanders, will endorse Clinton if she wins nomination
Senate: WI: Feingold, OH: Strickland, CA: Harris, NH: Hassan, FL: Murphy
Gov: OR: Brown, WA: Inslee, NC: Cooper
House: not aware of who's running. Every non-blue dog Democrat in a marginal house seat I guess.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

I'm not ready to make a whole lot of endorsements until more candidates announce in each of these contests, so this is what I have for the moment:

Senate
AK: Lisa Murkowski
AZ: John McCain
IL: Mark Kirk
IA: Chuck Grassley
NH: Kelly Ayotte
OH: Rob Portman
PA: Pat Toomey
SC: Tim Scott
SD: John Thune
WI: Ron Johnson

[DavidB.]

President:
Marco Rubio - but I'd be totally happy with Ted Cruz and Scott Walker as well.

Senate, only the ones I really care about:
Alaska: Murkowski (R)
Arizona: McCain (R)
Colorado: Mark Scheffel (R)
Florida: The Republican, not being Rubio because he's going to be president
Hawaii: Anyone but Schatz
Illinois: Mark Kirk (R)
Indiana: Dan Coats (R)
Maryland: Chris Van Hollen (D)
New Hampshire: Kelly Ayotte (R)
Pennsylvania: Pat Toomey (R)
South Carolina: Tim Scott (R)
Utah: Mike Lee (R)
Wisconsin: Ron Johnson (R)

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

President:

Rand Paul, Scott Walker and Ted Cruz are all ranked highly in my book. I'd also enthusiastically support a Bobby Jindal, Mike Huckabee or John Kasich candidacy.

Senate:

CO: Darryl Glenn
NH: Kelly Ayotte
PA: Pat Toomey
SC: Tim Scott
UT: Mike Lee
WI: Ron Johnson

The Senate list is very much an early version.

[free my dawg]

President:
Bernie Sanders

Governor:
Maggie Hassan
Steve Bullock
Troy Jackson, if LePage gets impeached
Glenda Ritz

Senate:
Russ MFing Feingold
Whoever runs against Kelly Ayotte (gun to my head it's Kuster)
Patrick Murphy
Joe Sestak
Jason Kander
Ron Wyden
Ann Kirkpatrick

Congress:
NH-1: Carol Shea-Porter
PA-16: Whoever runs against Joe Pitts
ME-2: Bruce Poliquin, unless Cain loses the primary
NY-4: Anyone but Rice
Can't think of anyone I care about off the top of my head