with filing deadlines later for late primaries in March-April ... must be a few folks wondering why they did not get in now that MITT is in MELTdown.
If Dole dropped out in ‘96, Kemp would have gotten into the late primaries. The example to study in the DEM ‘76 race when Church and Jerry Brown got in late and chased Jimmy Carter around the late primaries, beating up on him. It was not clear that Carter was going to make it.
“... must be a few folks wondering why they did not get in now that MITT is in MELTdown.”
Yeppers.