[Budge]

Talk about Dims being stupid, yesterday sweetliberty and I saw the same thing on FOX - California will not put President Bush on the ballot! He would than have to be a write-in candidate!

I missed the rest of the story because I was screaming at the TV, or rather the croocked beyond belief, rotten b@st#$%s dimocRAT slime they had on!

Did anyone else catch this, or were those who did see it were screaming too and missed it?

Fractional American, can you help us here, please?

[FairOpinion]

California ( and some other states, there may be 3-4 more) has a deadline, by which they need to know who are the presidential candidates for each party. Unfortunately the Republican Convention will be late, which will put it past that deadline. And of course the CA dims are not about to make an exception.

But, unfortunately, I think this is a screw up by the Republicans, they should have thought of this, before setting the date for the convention.

[RonDog]

Talk about Dims being stupid, yesterday sweetliberty and I saw the same thing on FOX - California will not put President Bush on the ballot! He would than have to be a write-in candidate!

I missed the rest of the story because I was screaming at the TV, or rather the croocked beyond belief, rotten b@st#$%s dimocRAT slime they had on!

Did anyone else catch this, or were those who did see it were screaming too and missed it?

See also:

Bush May Be A Write in on More than one State Ballot
(late Sept. 2 Convention-now California?)
Washington Post ^ | Sunday April 27, 2003 | Brian Faler
Posted on 04/27/2003 4:38 PM PDT by ewing

The biggest question may be California, where election officials plan to begin printing about 15 million ballots almost immediately after the August 26 deadline-and begin mailing absentee ballots Sept. 3

A spokeswoman for the Secretary of State said that she did not know of any effort to move the deadline or how the state might accommodate the Rebulicans.

'Its not clear at this point,' Terri Carbaugh said.

'It certainly poses a dilema.'

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See also, from the Orange County Register:

Wednesday, April 30, 2003

Bush could be left off ballot
The lateness of the GOP's national convention poses a problem for him.

By ANDREW LAMAR
Contra Costa Times

SACRAMENTO – The Republican Party will hold its national convention so late next year that President George W. Bush's name might be left off the California ballot.

If Bush wants to avoid the risk of being a write-in candidate in the nation's most populous state, the Democratic- controlled Legislature must change the law or Republicans must move up their convention, an elections official said.

Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, a Democrat, and his lawyers are examining the problem to see if there are other alternatives, spokeswoman Terri Carbaugh said.

"This is certainly a dilemma," she said. "We are just beginning to look into it."

California's election code requires candidates to be certified 68 days before the vote, making Aug. 26, 2004, the deadline for the Nov. 2, 2004, election, said Bill Wood, Shelley's legal counsel. If a party has not nominated a candidate by then, none is listed on the ballot, he said.

Carbaugh said it's not clear when the nomination occurs. It could be when the candidate, in the primary elections, secures enough delegates to win, or when the party's convention votes for the nominee.

Republicans have scheduled their convention for Aug. 30- Sept. 2, 2004, in New York City. The timing, close to the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, is reportedly a key element of Bush's re-election strategy, which Republicans have said will emphasize national security and efforts to thwart terrorism.

Bush is slated to accept his party's nomination on Sept. 2. The convention, the latest in the party's history, has forced Republicans to push back deadlines in other states.

Republican Party officials said they aren't worried.

"We expect the Republican nominee to be on the ballot in all 50 states," said Jim Dyke, a GOP spokesman.

The Democratic Party will convene in late July 2004.

[countrydummy]

Same thing happened about 2 weeks ago in West Virginia.......course it was all bogus bs.....a headline to get readers attention and/or to try and belittle the President......., course it all backfired as it should have, he is on the ballot!

[Fractional-American]

(I don't know how I missed seeing this comment.) I hadn't seen anything about it on local news or I probably would have posted something about it. That doesn't make sense because obviously there is a big GOP base in California, since most of the governors we've had since I've been alive have been GOP. Obviously Bush would have enough supporters to rank above "write-in" status.

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