Posted on 12/06/2011 7:32:04 PM PST by Fred
Newt Gingrich is surging in the presidential polls, but his campaign organization has not caught up - making it possible he’ll miss Wednesday’s deadline to file enough signatures to even appear on Ohio’s primary ballot.
Mr. Gingrich, the former House speaker whose once-moribund presidential campaign has been resurrected in the polls in recent weeks, already missed the deadline for Missouri’s ballot. With several other state deadlines looming this month, his campaign is showing growing pains as it strives to meet them.
“We are going to give it our damnedest. We are going to do everything in our capacity to meet this deadline,” Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammand said of the Ohio deadline. “As far as the next deadline, we’re on pace for everything else.”
Gingrich backers said the campaign could mount a write-in effort in Ohio if need be. But missing that state’s 4 p.m. Wednesday deadline would be the latest embarrassment for Mr. Gingrich’s organization.
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And some people think this guy should run the government? He’s going to overturn Obamacare???? Dream on.
Get the army of gingbots, gingbats and gingnuts to help this guy out.
He would be on file had he not spent a month going on cruises and losing campaign staff.
And he’s going to miss 4 or 5 more states from what I hear. Leave it to this unfocused clown to lose the election because he was late getting his papers in. Unreal.
Clearly, his goal is to split the Tea Party vote and hand over victory to Mittens. Best to desert him and support Bachmann.
Once again the Leftists will have useful idiots on the GOP side to help destroy yet another GOP candidate.
The media must seriously laugh their a$$es off at the GOP.
I’m waiting to see which candidates make it on the ballot here in Virginia. I think the deadline for petitions was tomorrow.
I’ll say this — I’ve only seen (and signed) a petition for Herman Cain, although I was told Romney was circulating petitions.
I signed up to the campaigns for Gingrich, Perry, and Santorum, just so I could send them e-mails asking them to get me petitions to sign and/or circulate.
NONE of those campaigns got back to me, and I sent Gingrich 3 e-mails, because they DID start sending me spam three-four times a day, so I thought they might care.
LOL
Yes. Clearly this is proof that Newt won’t overturn Obamacare.
Your powers of deduction are simply amazing! /s
There is a very good chance that Newt won't overturn Obamacare because of this incompetance. Know why? Because he won't be the GOP nominee.
He already missed the Missouri deadline for filing, didn't get all the delegates a candidate could get in New Hampshire and now he is cruising to lose Ohio's delegates. Exactly how many states do you think a candidate can skip before he becomes mathematically unviable? I'm thinking it is not much past three.
How many states is your guy leading in?
You sure gripe desperately and daily about Newt, considering your claim that he can’t win the nomination.
Don’t worry. I’ll keep you posted on the vote tallies.
Don't bother. I can count up to the number of delegates he will get on two hands and half a foot at the rate he is going.
From the article:
“Ohio requires submitting signatures of between 50 and 150 Republicans in each of the state’s 16 congressional districts.”
So at most that’s 2400 signatures. If he can’t put that together in time it’ll be tragic but comical too. A very doable number, if you have the determination and discipline to do it right.
I have a client whom I helped get on the ballot in the Chicago area, and she was so disciplined on the ground. She had an excess of signatures, and they were all top-notch quality. Her troops verified voter registration, went door to door, didn’t do Wal-Mart junk signatures. And she was so ready for the predictable ballot objections she just creamed the effort to block her. I did help. There were some tricky legal issues with her name and her residency. But it always goes better when you’ve got a great client.
I hate to say how this contrasts with what I’m seeing from the Gingrich people. So far. I understand they’re stretched, so I assume they’re doing their best under the circumstances. Still, there will be consequences for a lack of preparation, as with anything else in life.
The Missouri primary is a straw vote. No delegates will be selected.
The delegates will be selected via a caucus several weeks after the primary.
Newt can win by going write-in. Such is the power of his ideas.
Missouri is meaningless, and expensive. The CAUCUS is where the delegates are.
It's up to Congress to overturn Obamacare, should the Supreme Court decline the honor. All Newt need do is sign it, in the event the repeal passes with less than two thirds. Actually, in that event, he'd probably sign it redundantly, just for the photo op.
Some aver that not only Gingrich, but Cain were unprepared for their early success.
How is Perry doing?
He can also abate it partially right off the bat by granting a fifty state waiver — even Romney has promised to do this, and it’s one of the few things Romney has not waffled about. Congress is still needed to roll back the bureaucracy it created, of course.
Foy are we bucked..
Remember when the best and brightest ran of office?
Me neither. The best and brightest are smart enough to know not to run.
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