I agree with you, that for Perry and Gingrich, there is no real excuse. One of the basic questions a good campaign manager should be asking is about the status of each state, to ensure they have the requisite number of signatures, with a reasonable safety margin.
Perry and Gingrich made it. Barely but the have the signatures in. I assume they were collected thru the RPV or a county committee, so most probably ARE legit.
Something about this story sounds fishy...
I’m going to wait and see this confirmed by some other news sources. I’m not going to be shocked if they still have more time to collect signatures.
This story just seems unbelievable.
I’m not really worried about Perry and Gingrich. If they were reasonable in control of their process, they likely have valid signatures. I didn’t collect signatures this time around because I’ve been out of the republican party since 2008, but when I was in the party, we were all very careful.
And they probably won’t check for duplicates — I believe the entire validation is going to take place in one day (tomorrow) because they don’t want to work over Christmas.
And they have no interest in bumping either of these candidates, so why would they look hard. They don’t HAVE to.
Wait...am I not seeing something? Didn’t it say that Perry got over 11,000? So isn’t that over the required 10,000?