Is not making Virginia fatal to a campaign?
Is not making Virginia fatal to a campaign?
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No. This is, afterall, the Primary, not the GE.
Failing to make the ballot on one state is almost, but not entirely, meaningless.
FOr me it is, since I’m in Virginia. Why would I support a candidate I can’t even vote for?
Or more importantly, why would I support a candidate who couldn’t be bothered to collect signatures.
Yes, there are a lot of signatures needed, but it’s not hard. We have republican committees in every county. All you have to do is send your petitions to each committee, and ask for help. You’ll get half your signatures just passing the petitions around the committees, and then they can collect the rest.
If you were paying attention, Virginia had an actual ELECTION in November. All you needed to do was ask the republican committees to pass your petitions to the people they had handing out sample ballots. A couple hundred actual voters at each precinct — and you’ve got your numbers.
Funny thing is, I bet Cain had enough signatures. He had his petitions at the polling places. But he dropped out, so I presume they decided not to file.
I don’t think Santorum and Bachmann were even trying. I wrote to both campaign more than once asking them if they wanted help, and to offer the signatures of my three voting age family members. Neither responded, although Santorum put me on his mailing list.
I call on Santorum and Bachmann to drop out, and let their supporters move to real candidates who are actually RUNNING for the nomination, as evidenced by doing the mundane task of QUALIFYING FOR THE BALLOT.
Meanwhile, my job is a lot easier now. Gingrich or Perry. Perry or Gingrich.
Maybe I’ll wait until tuesday, and see if they both qualify — although I agree with Sabato. Virginia law puts the decision absolutely in the hands of the RPV, and they can use any standard they want. That’s why Romney is already “qualified”, they decided if you submit 15,000 signatures they won’t even count them.
And if McDonald is supporting Gingrich or Perry, he won’t let them get bumped. Heck, assuming both Gingrich and Perry have supporters on the RPV (I will note they have BOTH headlined RPV events, Perry months ago and Gingrich yesterday), I think they’ll watch out for their candidate.
But if you want to be “helped” onto the ballot, you first have to actually submit signatures. Bachmann, Santorum, Fail. Sorry. You are out of here, please resign so we can get a real conservative to win in Iowa?
Since the GOP decided to emulate the idiotic system the democrats use by allocating delegates proportional to votes, every primary state is important now, if the race is close. It isn't winner take all anymore. I wonder if the dumbasses decided to start using 'super delegates' too!
So terribly STUPID! One is supposed to LEARN from the mistakes of OTHERS. Not follow them!