6 Republicans and 6 Democrats will be on Virginia's primary ballots

1070 WINA NewsRadio ^ | December 15, 2008 | Staff

[Josh Painter]

Virginia's Democratic primary voters will find six names on their ballots, including U.S. Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, Barack Obama of Illinois, and Joe Biden of Delaware. The other Democratic contenders in Virginia will include Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, and Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich.

The six Republicans who will appear on the February 12th GOP ballot include Arizona Senator John McCain, Former Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee, Former Governors Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and Texas Congressman Ron Paul.

U.S. Senator Chris Dodd (D-Connecticut) will not be a ballot choice in Virginia. The same holds true for Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-California) Representative Tom Tancredo (R-Colorado), and GOP hopeful Alan Keyes.

The order in which the candidates are listed will be determined later this week.

[magritte]

I believe from my reading they Thompson collected enough signatures, but a large amount of them turned out not to be registered voters, invalidating them for this purpose.

Perhaps it's more of a poorly organized effort by the Thompson campaign than people from Delaware's view of Thompson...

[EDINVA]

I’d never vote for McCain, but I would never mock or laugh at a volunteer. Every year I hand out GOP lit at our local polling place and take that kind of abuse and worse from Dem voters. It’s really inappropriate and I hope you think about that in the future.

[SoConPubbie]

Save yourself the trouble; just punch the ticket for Obama or Hillary. You’d accomplish the same thing with less effort.

You know, I wish people would stop with this nonsense.

And I say this as an avid NON-Paul supporter. I will never vote for him.

If someone feels that the choices available to vote for are untenable, they have a right and a responsibility to vote for the person who they feel will responsibly represent them and their values.

To do otherwise means to abandon your principles.

[SoConPubbie]

So Freds campaign could muster up the dedication to get him on this ballot, but Delaware was too tough? (He only got 281 out of the necessary 500 signatures).

Sounds like a good, dedicated, organized campaign to me!

Another snarky comment from a Rudy supporter!

Color me surprised!

In fact, it would seem you are rather obsessive about Fred reviewing your posting history.

If it is a Fred article or issue, you have nothing nice to say.

[deport]

I believe from my reading they Thompson collected enough signatures, but a large amount of them turned out not to be registered voters, invalidating them for this purpose.

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Lot of hoopla about the filing and this indicates that additional time maybe forthcoming..... I've not checked the DE official state stie.

Republicans who did file 500 signatures, or who are certified for matching funds, are Giuliani, Huckabee, McCain, Paul, Romney, Tancredo, and Thompson. Fred Thompson filed his signatures 5 minutes before the deadline. If any petition is found to be insufficient, Delaware gives the candidates time to get more signatures.

[Redmen4ever]

According to the Associated Press, this is the number of signatures filed by each Republican: Giuliani 17,041; Huckabee 19,329; McCain 15,024; Paul 21,142; Romney 15,443; Thompson 15,549.

AP lists the candidates alphebetically. By signature count it would be: Paul, Huckabee, Giuliani, Thompson, Romney and McCain.

[BobS]

Ron Paul is going to need that money. To stuff in his bloody rear end.

[Redmen4ever]

Thompson may yet get on the primary ballot in Delaware. Here’s a snippet from a news item I came across: “Fred Thompson filed his signatures 5 minutes before the deadline. If any petition is found to be insufficient, Delaware gives the candidates time to get more signatures.”

[lesser_satan]

I don't know enough about Huckabee yet

That's easily remedied: just go to The REAL Mike Huckabee to find out everything you need to know.

[larry hagedon]

I am a Duncan Hunter fan myself but I have been very dissapointed in his campaign performance.

I know he has my email address as I sent him a contribution last month. I fully expected him to use email to keep me up to date, campaign stops, speaches, heck even pleas for more money.

Nuthin.

Dead silence.

Folks email is as good as free, why would any political campaigner in 2007 not use it?

[AppyPappy]

If Paul runs against Hillary and Republican, he will hurt Hillary more from an anti-war aspect

[kAcknor]

Thanks. Good info to know.

[kAcknor]

he will hurt Hillary more from an anti-war aspect

That is EXACTLY the attitude that worries me most. More so because it has the ring of truth behind it. In the end it's simply an excuse for him to run, and it's better that he does not.

I don't much care if 20% of the votes he gets are anti-war liberals. The other 80% will be anti-war and strict constitutional conservatives and libertarians who would otherwise vote Republican.

[codercpc]

get back to me when Rudy, Mitt, McCain, or even Huck for that matter FAILS to get on a state ballot!

BTW... I have also noticed your "snarky" comments on Romney and Huck threads. What's good for the goose.....

[codercpc]

Thanks for the follow up.

[flintsilver7]

Hopefully, there is some difference. If nothing else, this election is critical with respect to the Supreme Court. While it’s likely the Republican candidate will be a big-government moderate, it’s a certainty the Democrat candidate will be a huge-government socialist. You’re almost guaranteed to get a Ginsburg clone with one of the liberals, while I HOPE you would get something better with whoever the Republican would nominate.

[flintsilver7]

And I wish people would stop with this nonsense about principles. Look past the immediate consequences. Idealists vote on principle and often end up, in effect, voting for their opposition. Nader voters didn’t see eye to eye with Bush, but their “principled” support of Nader in 2000 made damn sure Bush got into office. The same thing holds for the majority of Perot voters in 1992.

I generally dislike the two-party system, but we all need to face that that’s what we have. We’ll know by Election Day which two candidates have a chance at winning. You can vote for a third-party candidate, but you’re only hurting whichever of the two candidates you more closely align with. That’s a sad fact. You can say that’s “abandoning your principles” but it’s being practical.

[seekthetruth]

“Time for conservatives to unite for Fred Thompson!”

By the time Virginia’s primary comes around, I believe Fred will do quite well. Virginia is an open primary state, and I know some Democrats who are going to vote for Fred! :)

[esarlls3]

I am a Duncan Hunter fan myself but I have been very dissapointed in his campaign performance.

Same here. Perhaps the early lead in money by the big campaigns bought up all of the worthwhile consultants. I don't know. I just know he has not been able to organize a campaign to get his message out. I don't see him bringing anything as a VP candidate, either. Why would someone pick a running mate who can't organize a campaign or win his state?

Our best hope for Duncan seems to be a cabinet position.

That narrows my list down to Fred and Mitt.

[marsh_of_mists]

I disagree. Not voting principles is what ends up getting you Rudy vs. Hillary in ‘08. And I think some of Republicans actually would be worse than Hillary because they’ll lead the GOP even farther astray. Pres Hillary might at least encourage the GOP to rediscover its conservative roots.