GOP Santorum's chance at 9 Ohio delegates hampered

Associated Press ^ | 1/12/12

[Happy Valley Dude]

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum won't have a chance to vie for some of Ohio's national convention delegates.

The state's top election official said Wednesday that the former Pennsylvania senator won't appear on the ballot at the district level in three congressional districts in the battleground state. That means nine of Ohio's 66 delegates are off the table for him.

Ohio has a Republican primary system that requires people to vote twice. So while Santorum's name won't appear at the district level, voters could still choose to award him at-large delegates.

The party doles out 48 delegates from the March 6 primary based on how well candidates do in each of Ohio's 16 congressional districts. The other 18 delegates are awarded at large.

Besides Santorum, candidates Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Ron Paul, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney were certified for Ohio's ballot.

[Happy Valley Dude]

One of the jobs of the President is to manage the federal government. If a guy can't even organize a campaign, why would we believe that he can run the federal government? This isn't the first state that Santorum has screwed up in. His campaign has also messed up in VA, IL, TN, and DC.

[org.whodat]

In tennesse you can appoint delegates before or you can have them after, i think it is the same in ohio. So try and get it straight .

[MachIV]

How could we have such a bunch of inept candidates at such a critical mass moment in our nations history?? Makes you wonder if it isn’t by design.

[Flintlock]

RINOS are disgusting. They changed the rules in Va at the last minute—now this kind of BS.
It is NOT NECESSARY to have the Leftmost candidate possible in order to win—quite the contrary.

With RINORomney as candidate—the GOP will likely be finished and go down like the Whigs.

3rd party—anybody else??

[muawiyah]

People cheat ~ and change the rules too late for others to respond.

We know who the cheaters are and who their acolytes are on FR my funny little friend with a Model Number for a name!

[muawiyah]

The Democrat party gets around the worst effects of these rules by MAKING SURE all their candidates get their 1 thousand or 10 thousand or 50 thousand signatures on nominating petitions, or that they've filled out the forms for delegate designation, or..... name the rule, the Democrat's very own Debbie Wasserman Schultz, or any of her predecessors, have done all these things.

Your boy Priebus IS NOT DOING THEM.

One of the purposes of the RNC is to make sure these apparent screw ups do not happen.

I think he needs to resign so we can replace him before more primaries happen. He is destroying the party.

[Pietro]

"Makes you wonder if it isn’t by design."

This is one way the party controls the game.

[Happy Valley Dude]

They changed the rules in Va at the last minute—now this kind of BS.

No last minute rule changes in OH, IL, TN, and DC. Is competency too much to ask from someone seeking the highest office in the land?

[MachIV]

I have no “acolytes” on this forum. I’m a “lone wolf” here. Your comment seems to infer I’m involved in some conspiracy or something. Sorry if I misinterpreted, but I wasn’t sure how to take your comment.

[muawiyah]

Didn’t say you did ~

[Happy Valley Dude]

One of the purposes of the RNC is to make sure these apparent screw ups do not happen.

I think he needs to resign so we can replace him before more primaries happen. He is destroying the party.

It's not the job of the RNC to ensure that each and every campaign is doing their job. Why was he the only campaign to screw up in Ohio?

[TheOldLady]

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[Fresh Wind]

Since the article you posted is short on facts, can you explain what Santorum did or didn’t do to cause this problem? And please don’t resort to insults and mud slinging.

[muawiyah]

One more time, the DEMOCRATS don't have these screwups because their party works for them.

The failure is with the party leadership.

[Happy Valley Dude]

Since the article you posted is short on facts, can you explain what Santorum did or didn’t do to cause this problem? And please don’t resort to insults and mud slinging.

Each campaign is supposed to file slates of delegates and alternative delegates in each congressional district. Santorum's campaign failed to file slates of delegates and alternative delegates in three of Ohio's 16 congressional districts. If there is some kind of sinister conspiracy, it did not effect Gingrich, Romney, Paul, Perry, or Huntsman.

[Fresh Wind]

The failure is with the party leadership.

Even worse, they don't even see it as a failure. It would seem that they have deliberately set the system up to favor well-funded establishment-approved candidates.

[org.whodat]

Ask this man, http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/22/news/la-pn-gingrich-missouri-20111122

[muawiyah]

They actually CAN’T see it as a failure ~ they are blinded by their own vision of class warfare ~ just as badly as the Leftwingtard ideologues who run San Francisco and Berkely.

[Happy Valley Dude]

One more time, the DEMOCRATS don't have these screwups because their party works for them.

Yes they do: Kucinich and Gravel Will Not Appear on Texas Presidential Ballot

[Happy Valley Dude]

Even worse, they don't even see it as a failure. It would seem that they have deliberately set the system up to favor well-funded establishment-approved candidates.

Because Ron Paul is such an "establishment-approved" candidate. If his crazy squad can meet the ballot requirements, why can't Santorum's campaign.