Timeline (Beau Lives)

July

 * 2nd: Jim Webb formally announces his candidacy for the Presidental Nomination of the Democractic Party.
 * 9th: POD: Beliving his son Beau to have recovered enough, Joe Biden annouces that he will be running for the Presidental Nomination of the Democratic Primary, considered Hillary's only real oppostion at this point in time.
 * 13th: Scott Walker announces his campagin for the Republican primary, joining many others in what has become the largest primary field ever.
 * 21st:John Kasich announces his run for the Republican nomination as well.
 * 30th:Jim Gilmore announces his run for the Republican Nomination as well.

August

 * 3rd: The First presidental fourm is held, featuring 14 republican canidates. Noteable abscences include Donald Trump and Mike Huckabee.
 * 6th: The First Republican Debates are held by Fox News. The Debate was tiered by level of support, with the top ten canidates debating in a seperate debate from 7 other, lesser known canidates. The 10 canidates in the man debate where: Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Chris Christie, and John Kasich. The Seven in the smaller debate where Rick Perry, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, Lindsey Graham, Carly Fiorina, Jim Gilmore, and George Pataki. The undercard debate sees Fiorina's breakout, allowing her to gain more support than seen before. The main event is marked by controversy. Trump spends more time arguing with the moderators than his oppenents, and many consider him rude and over the top. Despite this, Trump is still considered the winner by many. The issues of this debate are healthcare, welfare  reform, NSA Surveillance, Sexism, Illegal Immigration, and the fact that Trump had not ruled out a third party run at this point in time.
 * 11th: Lawrence Lessig begins planning and considering a run for the Democratic Nomination
 * 16th: Andy Martin offically announces a run for the Republican Nominee
 * 22nd:JImmy McMillan announces his candidacy for the Republican Nomination.

September

 * 3rd: Opinion polls conducted by CNN show that Joe Biden is leading the Democratic race, with 31.9% of voters favoring him. Clinton comes in second with 29.4. Sanders comes in third with  15.4%. Unsure, Undecieded, or No prefference voters come in fourth with 13.8. O'Malley comes in fifth with 6.3%. Other gets 3.2%. The margin of error on this poll is +/- 3%, so it is possible that Clinton is leading at this point. The Republican poll featuring the top ten canidates has Donald Trump and Ted Cruz battling for the top spot, with Marco Rubio and Chris Christie duking it out for third place.
 * 6th: Lessig offically announces his candidacy for the Presidental Nomination.
 * 8th: John McAfee announce his candidacy for the "Cyber Party"
 * 11th: Rick Perry drops out of the Republican race. He is the first to do so.
 * 16th:Second Republican Debate in Simi, California. Once again the debate is tiered, with the prime time event feturing 11 canidates: Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee, John Kasich, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Donald Trump, and Scott Walker. The undercard debate featured Bobby Jindal, Lindsey Graham, RIck Santorum, and George Pataki. The main focus of the night was Fiorina's rise to prominence, and her strong performence helped her gain more traction. Rubio also had a strong performence. Trump's performence was again criticized, and many saw Cruz, Kasich, Bush, Walker and Paul's performence's as lackluster and poor. Fiorina is labeled the winner, and gains a substaintal boost in the pools. The Main issues where Immigration, Forgien policy, Women's Health, and Marijuana legalization. Trump and Fiorina exchanged insults and comments about each other's business records, and Trump continued to make petty attacks against Paul.
 * 21st:Following the second debate, Scott Walker suspends his presidental run.
 * 30th:South Carolina ballots are finalized with 15 Republican Canidates and 3 Democratic Canidates.

October

 * 13th:First Democratic Debate. Those in attendence are listed based on their support: Biden, Clinton, Sanders, O'Malley, Chafee, and Webb. Lessig did not qualify. The debate revolves around issues such as Gun Control, Clean Energy, Planned Parenthood, Big Banks, and Income Inequality. While O'Malley had an impressive preformance, he failed to break out. Overall, Biden and Clinton had the most speaking time with the two speaking for around a third of the debate each. Sanders had the next most, getting around an 8th of the speaking time. O'Malley came in fourth, Webb in 5th, and Chafee in sixth. Many news outlets, such as the Washington Post and CNN, label Clinton the winner.
 * 20th:Jim Webb drops out of the race. When asked who he will endorse, he evades the question.
 * 23rd: Chafee drops out of the race. He endorses Joe Biden.
 * 28th: 3rd Republican Debate. The debate was tiered for a third time. The ten Canidates in the main event were Bush, Carson, Christie, Cruz, Fiorina, Huckabee, Kasich, Paul, Rubio, and Trump. The undercard debate fetured four canidates, Graham, Jindal, Santorum, and Pataki. The Moderators of this debate where strongly critizied for asking loaded questions of the canidates. The main issue of this debate was the economy, and the big winners where Cruz, Rubio, and Christie. Trump, Fiorina, and Carson had a favorable, but lackluster performence. Kasich and Bush had a weak showing at this debate.

Novemeber

 * 2nd:Lessig drops out of the race, endorsing Sanders.
 * 4th:Canidate registration for New Hampshire begins. 16 Republicans are registered and 4 Democrats are registered.