Posted on 03/05/2012 1:49:12 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
ROANOKE CO, Va.— Tomorrow is Super Tuesday
Ten states including Virginia will head to the polls to choose a candidate for the Republican nomination.
Virginia's primary has been low key.
Mitt Romney and Ron Paul are the only two candidates on the ballot in Virginia.
Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich failed to qualify because they didn't get enough signatures.
As a result, none of the candidates have made campaign stops in Virginia and have spent very little on political ads.
Ed Lynch is a political science professor at Hollins University. He admits Republican voters aren't energized for the primary.
"We could have had three or four candidates this past weekend talking in downtown Roanoke but they didn't get the petitions signed," said Lynch.
The Roanoke County Registrar is expecting voter turnout to be between 7 & 10%.
"I looked back at primaries that we had before and in '08 at that time we h ad the Democratic and Republican primary and we had 27.6% turnout then," said Judy Stokes.
Stokes believes Tuesday's primary will be so slow, she's stationing fewer workers at the polls.
If you are planning to vote Tuesday, the polls open at 6 A.M. They close at 7 P.M.
Virginia's primary is open to both Democrats and Republicans. All you have to be is a registered voter in Virginia.
In a primary, you can't write in a candidate on the ballot.
I’ll vote for Paul tomorrow and Romney in the General. Just to let the establishment know that we ain’t happy campers.
TC
Only the presidential primary is tomorrow.
If true, it’s probably because so many are voting by absentee ballot.
VA is winner-take-all on the CD delegates (33 up for grabs) and proportional on the at large (13 up for grabs). If Paul wins 60-40 say, he could take 41 delegates to Romney’s 5. Three other delegates are uncommitted super delegates. I’d vote Paul in VA even though I’m a Santorum guy.
May not matter in the end. I’ll bet Paul hands Romney his delegates at the convention after Romney pays Paul’s price for them.
Every Santorum or Newt person I know is voting Paul .... see if we can shake things up a little bit. :-)
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