Obama takes VA; Paul and Mitt only Republicans on VA ballot...

[eyer]

10,000 legitimate signatures of registered voters (including 400 from each of Virginia's 11 congressional districts) are required for any candidate to be listed on the ballot for Virginia's March 6, 2012, primary; the deadline for submitting those legitimate signatures was this past Thursday @ 1700...

...President Obama's submitted signatures have been certified and, since he is the only Democrat qualified for the ballot, all Virginia delegate votes at the Democratic National Convention will be cast for him.

Candidates Ron Paul and Mitt Romney will be the only 2 Republican choices on the ballot; Bachmann, Huntsman, and Santorum did not make any effort to collect signatures, while Perry and Gingrich both submitted over 11K but too many of each offering were evidently illegitimate that the 10K threshold was not met - neither Gingrich or Perry will be on the ballot in Virginia's primary...

..both - as anyone else - still have the option of promoting write-in campaigns.

Newt, in character, is attacking Virginia's "failed system" instead of his team's failure...


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...rimary-ballot/2011/12/23/gIQA3BZNEP_blog.html

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap...9dvJIg?docId=4f96307fa5864a8cbe4a84ccd6e86f60

 

[JohnnySavage]

The nomination will be locked up by the time the primaries get to Virginia anyway. None of the votes will count.

 

[Liar]

Easy to ridicule. But is this sort of fail uncommon in the primary seasons?

 

[phrodeau]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/13/politics/virginia-gop-primary-ballot/index.html

"Nothing new was learned here today, as the Virginia ruling merely confirms the suspicions of what many people feel about the viability of Perry, Gingrich, Huntsman, and Santorum," national campaign chairman Jesse Benton said in a statement.

Ouch.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Easy to ridicule. But is this sort of fail uncommon in the primary seasons?

It is, but the primaries aren't for the voters to pick the candidates, they are for the parties to pick their candidates. As such, the state parties make the rules. It's a pretty big gaff for a major candidate to fail to get on the ballot.

 

[NewEnglandGirl]

The nomination will be locked up by the time the primaries get to Virginia anyway. None of the votes will count.

Dunno about that. Virginia is one of the Super Tuesday states. I know I am sure planning on voting, Super Tuesday. Ten states, one day? Yeah, we count.