Newt Gingrich doesn't qualify for NH primary?

[jbuttell]

http://www.rightspeak.net/2011/12/newt-gingrich-doesnt-qualify-for.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&m=1

Saw this on twitter - any idea if this could be true or what it really means?

[Karsten]

Good news for us!

[Fermli]

false thread title.

Here's the article that explains the NH story. (http://www.wmur.com/r/29902314/detail.html) It's not important.

[freefromchains]

Yeah, this is a false thread title indeed.

He is qualified. He doesn't have a full list of delegates for NH, which doesn't matter as it is proportional there. His list was sloppy and unprofessional, nonetheless it doesn't change the fact he is on the New Hampshire ballot.

[69360]

I believe at worst he can get 27 delegates max out of 40 since that's all he registered. So probably wont be an issue.

[RDM]

By Elizabeth Williamson

If New Hampshire presidential primary filings were homework assignments, Republican candidate Newt Gingrich—the race’s self-proclaimed academic and visionary–would get an incomplete, and an F for presentation.

Newt Gingrich speaks at the First Coast Tea Party town hall meeting in Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 17, 2011. (Reuters/Daron Dean)

The rules of the New Hampshire primary stipulate that candidates pay a $1,000 filing fee and provide a list of 40 people willing to serve as their delegates to the Republican National Convention—that’s 20 delegates and 20 alternates. That’s not New Hampshire’s rules, that’s the Republican Party’s, says Assistant Secretary of State Karen Ladd, who adds that since delegates are awarded proportionate to the number of votes, 20 wouldn’t be necessary unless a candidate swept the entire state, winning 100%.

Either way, it’s not a disqualifier but perhaps an indication of a campaign’s level of organization, according to a New Hampshire Journal story pointing out the shortfalls by Mr. Gingrich.

But still, two weeks after the Nov. 18 deadline, Mr. Gingrich has on file a list of 14 delegates and 13 alternates to the National Convention. And sloppy! The Gingrich campaign submitted a list that’s scrawled by hand, ambles across the page and is poorly alphabetized, with an extra name beginning with “H” stuffed between two others and indicated by a handwritten arrow, as in duh, someone forgot that the name “Hurst,” comes between “Hellwig” and “Hyatt.”

Look at this mess:
http://i.imgur.com/DUbUN.png
http://i.imgur.com/Wr5b0.png

Of the eight best-known GOP candidates—Messrs. Romney and Gingrich, Ron Paul, Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum and Jon Huntsman—only Mr. Gingrich, Ms.Bachmann, and Mr. Santorum didn’t come up with the full list of 40.

And everybody–except Mr. Gingrich–used a typewriter to complete their forms.

[Keith and stuff]

I believe at worst he can get 27 delegates max out of 40 since that's all he registered. So probably wont be an issue.

I think if you get all of the votes, you only get 12 delegates in NH. NH was punished because it is going early.

[gerryb]

Some good local orator should visit them and give a good speech =)

[Krugerrand]

By Elizabeth Williamson

If New Hampshire presidential primary filings were homework assignments, Republican candidate Newt Gingrich—the race’s self-proclaimed academic and visionary–would get an incomplete, and an F for presentation.

Newt Gingrich speaks at the First Coast Tea Party town hall meeting in Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 17, 2011. (Reuters/Daron Dean)

The rules of the New Hampshire primary stipulate that candidates pay a $1,000 filing fee and provide a list of 40 people willing to serve as their delegates to the Republican National Convention—that’s 20 delegates and 20 alternates. That’s not New Hampshire’s rules, that’s the Republican Party’s, says Assistant Secretary of State Karen Ladd, who adds that since delegates are awarded proportionate to the number of votes, 20 wouldn’t be necessary unless a candidate swept the entire state, winning 100%.

Either way, it’s not a disqualifier but perhaps an indication of a campaign’s level of organization, according to a New Hampshire Journal story pointing out the shortfalls by Mr. Gingrich.

But still, two weeks after the Nov. 18 deadline, Mr. Gingrich has on file a list of 14 delegates and 13 alternates to the National Convention. And sloppy! The Gingrich campaign submitted a list that’s scrawled by hand, ambles across the page and is poorly alphabetized, with an extra name beginning with “H” stuffed between two others and indicated by a handwritten arrow, as in duh, someone forgot that the name “Hurst,” comes between “Hellwig” and “Hyatt.”

Look at this mess:
http://i.imgur.com/DUbUN.png
http://i.imgur.com/Wr5b0.png

Of the eight best-known GOP candidates—Messrs. Romney and Gingrich, Ron Paul, Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum and Jon Huntsman—only Mr. Gingrich, Ms.Bachmann, and Mr. Santorum didn’t come up with the full list of 40.

And everybody–except Mr. Gingrich–used a typewriter to complete their forms.

Dude. ... you have about 18 hours of email reading to get caught up on that AOL account.

[RDM]

Dude. ... you have about 18 hours of email reading to get caught up on that AOL account.

Got no time. Ron Paul comes first.

[LeJimster]

whoever wrote those delegates down can't even write in a straight line. Jeez.

[Tina]

Good indication of what kind of president he would be.