Which brings up a worry: What if this topples Kerry? I read on NRO that all the DNC has to do to replace their nominee is have a majority of the 400 some-odd members of the national exec committee vote in a newbie. So we could have a repeat of NJ '02, when a well managed republican campaign is rendered moot by a last minute switcheroo.
what you suggest would fail in this context, even if they did ditch kerry. I think it would result in total democrat non-turnout (even for hillary, who wouldn't take such a sure-loser bet) and 60%+ vote for bush.
They can do it, but they will have to poll to see who would measure up. Nobody else would even crack single digits, so they may as well keep Kerry.
switcheroo, b*tcheroo!!!
Yeah, a "newbie" who is already popular, requires no introduction or major campaign, is understood and hailed as a hero(ine) by the the rat masses... now who could that possibly be?
There are many states for which the deadline for names on the ballot has already passed. Any replacement will not be valid in those states.
Any court battle to change that would be on a state-by-state basis and the USSC would not touch an appeal. Demodogs almost certainly concede the election in most states the deadline has passed. Replacement ain't gonna happen now.
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