Posted on 12/22/2011 2:57:55 PM PST by TBBT
Four Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry and Ron Paul -- submitted paper work in time to qualify for Virginia's March 6 primary ballot.
No other GOP contender will be on the Virginia ballot. Rep. Michele Bachmann, former Sen. Rick Santorum and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman did not submit signatures with Virginia's State Board of Elections by today's 5 p.m. deadline.
Those who submitted the required signatures must clear another hurdle. The Republican Party of Virginia has until Tuesday to certify which candidates qualify.
Romney was the first Republican presidential candidate to file his petitions. His Virginia campaign chairman, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, delivered them on Tuesday. President Barack Obama's re-election campaign filed earlier this month.
The State Board of Elections will turn over the petitions to the respective political parties for validating. Republican will begin the process Friday morning and have sought volunteers to help with the process.
Candidates must submit the signatures of at least 10,000 registered voters, with 400 from each of the 11 Congressional districts.
Romney submitted 16,026 signatures; Paul 14,361; Perry 11,911 and Gingrich 11,050.
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This stinks :-(
Not good news for ROMNEY, either.
Sorry, but if they can’t be bothered or trusted enough to submit their paperwork on time they certainly can’t be trusted to POTUS.
We need to start calling him "minnie 0bama" to distance him from the stigma of being of the Moron persuasion that the name Romney has brought him.
Then we can have a second tier 0bama as POTUS if 0bama loses.
There is a strong possibility these 3 wont get past New Hampshire.
On the plus side, this should be good for Gingrich or Perry.
They may not have been able to get 10,000 signatures.
So basically the field is dowm to 4? Isnt this pretty much the end of the road for them?
So we should all rally around only the people who have large war chests and can afford to pay people to collect signatures for POTUS?
We should rally around the candidates who can get the job done on time and correctly.
“Sorry, but if they cant be bothered or trusted enough to submit their paperwork on time they certainly cant be trusted to POTUS.”
While I support Santorum and Bachmann, I agree with this. Failure to submit paperwork on time shows disinterest in actually winning or just bad management in general. Since there’s no way to win if you don’t even compete, I’ll go with the idea that these people are running to get a VP slot or cabinet position rather than to actually win the presidency.
I guess that means I’ll be putting my hopes in a strong Perry showing in the upcoming primaries. Hopefully I’ll have more to pick from than Gingrich or Romney by the time the Colorado’s turn comes around.
I guess that rules Newt out as well since he failed to get on the ballot in Missour, and would have failed getting on the ballot in Ohio had OH not moved it’s primary to June.
“Sorry, but if they cant be bothered or trusted enough to submit their paperwork on time they certainly cant be trusted to POTUS.”
Nope.
As a practical matter, all 3 will probably have withdrawn before the VA primary. That frees up Mark Levin, doesn’t it, unless he wants to write in Santorum or Bachmann.
I support Bachmann, but you make a VERY good point here.
Newt did make the original deadline for the Ohio ballot. That deadline gets pushed up once the law about the changed date goes into effect, but he made the original deadline.
Newt did not sign on for the “non-binding” Missouri primary. AFAIK he will participate in the “binding” caucus vote which comes later.
http://www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2012-republican-primary-schedule/
“Missouri will hold a primary on February 7th, 2012, which will not count for delegates toward the 2012 GOP convention. The Missouri Republican Party will hold a caucus on March 17th, 2012, which will determine the delegates sent to the 2012 GOP convention”
If one candidate does not get a majority of delegates by end of the primaries, would it be possible for two of the candidates to “combine” their delegates to get over 50% and then join up as President and Vice-President?
It looks like we will have 11 primaries with propotional allocation but then starting on Tuesday, March 6th they become winner-take-all including Virginia. So it’ll be less likely at that point for a 3-way race to remain, but a 2-way is possible.
It’s very difficult and expensive to get 10,000 qualified signatures on a petition.
I had hoped that Rick Santorum would be on the ballot here in Virginia. Oh well.
I wonder how the heck that happened?
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