Posted on 02/03/2012 12:16:22 PM PST by Josh Painter
Rick Santorum is on the verge of being left off the ballot in the the Indiana primary, three sources told BuzzFeed Friday.
The former Pennsylvania senator is more than 30 signatures short of the 500 needed in the 7th Congressional district, which includes Marion County, where Indianapolis is located, a source close to the Santorum campaign said.
The Marion County chief deputy of voter registration on the Democratic side, Scott Carr, confirmed that Santorum had not submitted 500 valid signatures. An Indiana Republican source said Santorum is "a couple dozen" signatures short, but that Newt Gingrich will be on the ballot.
The Indiana Primary won't be held until May 8, and is unlikely to be decisive in any event, but Santorum's shortfall cuts against some of his supporters hopes that he will rise as Newt Gingrich falls to provide a final challenger to Mitt Romney.
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Or is there the possibility that the GOP is starting to use the DEM methods of choosing and electing candidates. Find a bag of votes when you need them, lose a bag if you need to.
but everyone knows he’s angling for the V.P. slot.
I thought it was Bachmann who was angling for VP spot and then it was Perry early on and then it was Cain who was working for Mitt. You guys are so full of crap especially you.
“Kind of like they don’t like Newt much in MO, where he won’t be on the ballot.”
Oh. I thought Newt not being on the ballot was a paperwork snafu.
A campaign might lack the technical ability to figure out which CD a voter is registered in, however a courthouse can do it fairly easily.
If it is just a matter of 500 signatures in each CD, that’s one thing; now yes, the courthouse must determine whether the signatures are valid. Typically they do not check every signature, but take a sample and estimate.
One rub is that some (all?) of the states are using new CD lines. SC elected 2 delegates from each of its 7 new CDs - there are 6 in the current Congress.
I’m sure there is software to geocode addresses (I’m not sure if the campaigns type in ballot signature addresses at the end of the day) although getting the CD lines to check against is a technical challenge, maybe especially so for an underfinanced campaign.
Everything you said plus a more realistic projection. Newt finally runs Santorum out of the race and then is flat out of excuses why he can’t win.
Step away from the KoolAid pitcher. You don't think Gingrich would be blasting victory everywhere if he won in MO? You bet he would. Now, he will probably watch Santorum do just that. He missed the filing deadline and will now suffer the consequences. Hardly a strategy.
Okay, I’ll bite.
You realize that the poor showings for Santorum have nothing to do with his favorability ratings, but many voters have bought into the false notion that this is a two man race and that Gingrich was the perceived superior candidate due to SC and his debate performances (which went out the window with FL voters after the FL debates).
But here’s a better question for you. Assuming Gingrich got the nomination, explain to me in a state where women will make up 53-55% (FL) of the vote and the political make-up will be somethings like R(36) D(35) I(29), given how poorly Gingrich did with women voters along the I-4 Corridor and South Florida, how does he lower that gap AND avoid getting blown out among Independent and Liberal Women. Sure, Santorum got 8% of the female vote, but it had nothing to do with his favorability. If your answer is that he’ll take Rubio or West, I could counter that Santorum could do exactly the same thing and still be in a better position.
And while Santorum has won only one state, it happens to be a state that the GOP hopes to flip in November. Gingrich, meanwhile, has been blown out by double-digits in what will be considered the battleground states for the General Election (NH, IA, FL). Santorum didn’t spend virtually any money in NH and beat Gingrich. Santorum also didn’t spend virtually anything in FL and still managed to get 230,000 votes.
Lastly, polls show that if Gingrich dropped out, virtually all support would go to Santorum. However if Santorum dropped out, it would split between Romney and Gingrich.
yea right surfer, give it up
You used the same argument you used before, get with it.
You have ignored all what was pointed out, from not even winning any counties to losing every where and in between
give it up surfer
WAKE THE HELL UP BECAUSE YOU ARE REALLY STUPID AFTER HE GOES FOR ROMNEY
nah didn’t think so you had not thought of that
argue for him like a cultist then see him endorse Romney
oh and I also told you to show me the polls where those voters go
Is this it, act like a troll under different names now, sad.
I really doubt that Mittens would even consider him as VP? So he is really wasting his time any way you slice it.
BTW if Doug Flutie had started the 1999 playoff game against the Titans, he would have had a field day against the Titans D.
Just noticed your handle could not resist. :)
I was talking about intellectual honesty, not campaign strategy. There is a big difference. Your take on the campaign strategy is exactly right, as is my take on Sanctimonium’s consistent lack of intellectual honesty, which, since God Himself called Sanctimonium to run this race, as he said yesterday in NV, is a legitimate topic.
There’s no Kool-Aid pitcher to be found anywhere in my life. What do you have to drink to support a guy who says, God called me to do this? A little more than Kool-Aid.. and you seem to be a gulper...
As a member of the FL forum, I have seen Surfer’s comments, but we are not the same person (that is unless I have some strange schizophrenia that hasn’t been diagnosed correctly yet)
I see you’ve adopted resorting to emotion, typical of liberals to make a point your facts do not support. I see you didn’t contest anything I said about FL, which I know you know is true.
Funny you mention counties. Okay, please show me the Swing/Blue Counties that Newt won in FL that voted for Obama in 2008. I show only (2): Alachua (Home of UF) and Gadsden (largest AA concentration inf FL), both highly unlikely to be carried by the GOP nominee in the Fall. Any of the GOP nominees will easily carry the rest of the counties Gingrich carried. Look at the 08 Florida Election results for the Panhandle: this area really did not like Obama, it’s one of the few places where McCain ran as many as 8 points better than Bush. Unfortunately, the North is not where the population centers are. And like I did mention in my previous post, the reason Santorum has not carried any counties since IA has nothing to do with his favorability ratings. It’s due to voters buying into the notion that this was a two-man race and that Gingrich was perceived the stronger candidate based on debate performances (which has been put into serious doubt since the Florida debates).
Santorum, meanwhile, carried over 15 counties that Obama carried in IA, counties the GOP must win to offset the liberal East IA. These were all counties McCain lost in 2008 and Gingrich barely matched McCain’s percentage in these 08 IA Caucus results.
In the 2008 General Election, Santorum would carry North FL easily. He would also do better in the I-4 corridor and South FL because his support is not burdened down by a gender gap. You still have not mentioned given the current political demographics of FL how Gingrich closes the gender gap sufficiently to carry the state in the fall barring the selection of Rubio/West.
Nice caps. Like all people that use liberal tactics such as referring to people as “stupid”, I challenge you to call into Mark Levin, write Michelle Malkin, or David Limbaugh and repeat what you just told me to them. After they rip you a new one, come back and complain about how much a RINO those people are. /sarc
give it up and I told you the next time there is a meeting or a convention then we can meet and you can tell me how much of a liberal I am alright.
Infact why wait I get around the state a lot so why not tell me what city or town you are in and I’ll let you know when I get into town.
your problem which gave you away was you same words, same talking points etc.
We’ll meet I am sure of that.
Probably would have.
Jeff Fisher was busy trying to run out the clock on the entire second half, doing his best to lose his first playoff game.
Thankfully, Flutie did not start and the Music City Miracle bailed him out!
It sure gets complicated, but it’s a shame if he can’t be in the race over 30 disqualified signatures.
“You realize that the poor showings for Santorum have nothing to do with his favorability ratings, but many voters have bought into the false notion that this is a two man race and that Gingrich was the perceived superior candidate due to SC and his debate performances (which went out the window with FL voters after the FL debates).”
Rick is very much liked. I hear so many callers to radio shows saying how they like him, from small local radio stations to Rush Limbaugh.
As for the debates, Rick did better than Newt, in some of them, particularly the last two, especially when he ripped into Romney about Romneycare.
I feel the same way, but all our little Republican primary voters seem to know is that it is Mitt’s turn, at least that what Dole, McPain, and Karl Rove tell them.
Those people are like cattle repeating what others are telling.
So they can’t be real proud conservatives and deserve to be dhimmyrats
And we know what happens if moderates run against a Dem.
But there’s good news for Santorum, as he has a wealthy backer to help him with tv ads, he raised lots of money while campaigning recently, he has a great chance of winning in Missouri, and he is liked:
“In much of the polling, both nationally and in individual states, Santorum scores well on the “favourability” ratings.”
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