But why are these campaigns seemingly in full-swing when we're still more than eight months away from even the first primaries and caucuses that help determine the party nominees?
The education system in many parts of the world has been designed around preselected options that young people are expected to fit in or risk becoming misfits.
The qualifiers Remember that teams don't just show up at the World Cup, they have to fight for their place in each tournament, so qualifying games have to be played.
None of Engelbert's success comes as a shock to her family, which has seen her fly in from Davos, give a speech for her mom's retirement party and then get home in time for her son's baseball tryout.
Prosecutors say that he received hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to award lucrative marketing right to his country's world cup qualified matches to a Florida based company.