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Gingrich, Perry fail to get on Virginia ballot
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Author:  Elmarnieh [ Sat Dec 24, 2011 2:32 pm ]
Post subject:  Gingrich, Perry fail to get on Virginia ballot
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011 ... -campaign/
Author:  Rynar [ Sat Dec 24, 2011 2:58 pm ]
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Bachman, Santorum, and the rest of the herd didn't even submit signatures. This leaves Mitt Romney and Ron Paul as the only candidates on the ballot.
Author:  Arathain Kelvar [ Tue Dec 27, 2011 12:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Gingrich, Perry fail to get on Virginia ballot
Sounds like VA's requirements are screwed up, if only 2 of the candidates can get in.

Oh well, that can only be good for Paul.
Author:  Stathol [ Tue Dec 27, 2011 1:52 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Gingrich, Perry fail to get on Virginia ballot
Arathain Kelvar wrote:
Sounds like VA's requirements are screwed up, if only 2 of the candidates can get in.

did =/= can

This strikes me as being a major failing of the rejected candidates' campaigns, not of the VA requirements. I mean, that's really more or less the point of having these requirements in the first place. The signature requirements are as much about whether or not you can run a competent campaign as they are about demonstrating sufficient voter support (if not moreso).

The Gingrich campaign in particular fumbled this one badly. Everyone knew that VA had a strict hurdle, but he deliberately went into it with only about 10-15% more signatures than the bare minimum to qualify. That's either incompetent or lazy campaign management. I'm going to guess the former. His campaign manager's response to all this was that they would "wage an aggressive write-in campaign", apparently unaware of the fact that Virginia doesn't permit that for presidential primaries. If you're going to manage a presidential campaign, these are the sorts of things that you ought to know about. I don't think he did his due diligence.
Author:  Arathain Kelvar [ Tue Dec 27, 2011 2:59 pm ]
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I'll buy that. Still, I'm increasingly... annoyed... by the higher and higher hurdles that candidates must clear to get on ballots. All it takes to clear them? More money. We're heading in the wrong direction.
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