Countdown to November

Staff Reports

Updated March 4, 2016 10:14 PM

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Marcio Jose Sanchez AP

The two presidential front-runners – Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump – will have a very good weekend, polls predict.

A half-dozen primaries and caucuses will be held Saturday and Sunday. The front-runners are the favorites in every contest where polling has been done recently.

A look at those weekend contests:

Kansas

Both parties will hold caucuses Saturday.

In the Democratic contest for 33 delegates, Clinton has a 10 percentage-point lead, according to an average of polls done by Real Clear Politics.

Trump has a 12-point lead in the GOP contest, where 40 delegates are at stake.

Kentucky

Republicans only will caucus Saturday with 45 delegates on the table. Trump has a 13-point lead.

Louisiana

The weekend’s biggest prize is the Bayou State, where Clinton has a 39-point lead for the 51 Democratic delegates.

Trump, meanwhile, has a 19-point lead for the state’s 47 GOP delegates.

Maine, Nebraska

Maine Republicans caucus Saturday, awarding 23 delegates. The only poll done this year showed New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie with a 13-point lead. However, Christie subsequently quit the race and endorsed Trump, who has won every New England state thus far contested. Maine’s governor also has endorsed the billionaire businessman.

Democrats in Nebraska, where no recent polls have been conducted, also caucus Saturday, awarding 25 delegates. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent opposing Clinton, can hope that some of the prairie populism championed by Nebraska-native William Jennings Bryan re-emerges in force.

Maine

Democrats caucus Sunday, awarding 25 delegates in a contest that has seen no recent polling. (Vermont is nearby, and Sanders has done well in New England states.)

Upcoming

Republicans vote in Hawaii and Idaho on Tuesday, awarding 19 and 32 delegates, respectively. There’s been no recent polling in either state.

Voters in both parties go to the polls Tuesday in Michigan, with 147 Democratic delegates and 59 GOP, and Mississippi, with 36 Democratic delegates and 40 GOP. Clinton and Trump hold double-digits leads in both states, according to polls. (In Mississippi, Clinton has a gaudy 44-point lead.)

This story was originally published March 4, 2016 at 9:57 PM with the headline "Countdown to November."