Posted on 12/23/2011 3:44:52 PM PST by TBBT
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry failed to submit enough valid signatures to qualify for the Virginia primary ballot, state GOP officials said Friday evening.
Perry’s campaign told state election officials it had submitted 11,911 signatures, but a Virginia Republican familiar with the situation said that the Texas governor did not submit the required 10,000.
Earlier Friday, the Republican Party of Virginia certified former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.) to appear in the March ballot.
Four candidates — Romney, Perry, Paul and former House speaker Newt Gingrich — turned in thousands of signatures by the deadline. State party officials are spending the day certifying the signataries.
They have not examined Gingrich’s signatures yet, but expected to do so by late Friday night.
Candidates had until 5 p.m. to collect 10,000 signatures from across the state, including 400 from each congressional district.
Republican presidential candidates Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum did not submit signatures, according to state GOP officials
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is there anything to suggest Perry will still even be viable come Mar 6th anyway? It’s not looking too good for him right now. He was unlikely to make it as far as VA
Well, there’s a strong anti-Romney vote for whomever is standing at the end.
What an idiotic way to run an election.
true. looks like Paul may end up the benficiary of that now.
I think this will just mean that VA will be ignored and other states focused on
But Obama IS qualified... even without showing proof that he is.
The Texas Primaries have been moved to April thanks to the black robes. We're getting used to the feds telling us what and when to do it. /s
Please stop spreading dishonest Romney spin.
Newt wasn’t “forced out,” he resigned after the Repubs lost a handful of seats in 1998.
The ethics investigations happened years before that and had nothing to do with it. Nancy Pelosi was on the committee. He was reprimanded based on one trumped-up charge and voluntarily agreed to pay 300,000 to cover costs of the investigation. All the charge said was that he taught a college class that promoted Republicans. The IRS then investigated that charge and found Newt not guilty of anything.
The investigation was a political witchhunt. Of course everyone voted to reprimand him because you can never lose by accusing a congressman of corruption with the public, whether it’s true or not.
IMO, the only one that is certain to be in the race come March 6th is Romney, simply because he has gobs of money. Beyond that it all depends on the first 4 or 5 caucuses/primaries.
Also, VA is a winner take all state, so that could be why the also-rans decided not to spend the money here.
Agreed, but it could go otherwise. If Romney loses big in SC and FL that could spell the end. Say Paul wins IA. Romney wins NH. And then Newt wins big in SC and FL. Or say Newt rebounds and wins IA, then upsets Romney in NH, and blows him out in SC and FL.
Although he’s likely to stick around as long as he can. This is his last shot so he really nas nothing to lose.
Or we may get to Mar 6 and there’ll be some new folks in the race. I wouldn’t count that out yet.
That’s bad because Sabato would know.
Va will be a battleground state in 2012 (though more winnable than last time).
The nominee will have to invest a lot here to win and it’s disheartening that only Romney and Paul can presently claim any ‘ground game’ here.
True. but even if they’re not on the ballot, there’s nothing stopping Perry or Newt or whoever from building a ground game in VA for the general.
I think the ‘winner take all’ has been eliminated, which is why there’s been talk that the nominee won’t be known till April or May (unless there’s major drop outs earlier, leaving only one person standing).
i think VA is wta if someone exceeds 50%. Otherwise proprtional.
If it had been off only a couple dozen or even couple hundred or so, that’s when/how the RVP may have ‘turned a blind eye.’
RPV also invited me via the email list to go to Richmond for this count, but never was I or any registered voters in my household asked by a single campaign to sign a petition.
You have to wonder if the really active pols’ attention was turned to resolving the State Senate majority issue? This situation really depresses me. (almost as much as some of the speculation going on in this thread)
pflr
Kilgore lost a Governorship Election vs Tim Kaine a few years ago. He is mostly finished in VA and is back to his old job of being a party hack. Decided he didn’t need to fill out a gun rights survey from the VCDL and that may have been the difference.
Newt is on the ballot in Virginia and now working on Illinois
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