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Epic
12-23-2011, 05:58 PM
Looks like VA will be Ron Paul vs. Romney!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/virginia-politics/post/perry-disqualified-from-va-primary-ballot/2011/12/23/gIQA3BZNEP_blog.html


Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry failed to submit enough valid signatures to qualify for the Virginia primary ballot, state GOP officials said Friday evening.

Perry’s campaign told state election officials it had submitted 11,911 signatures, but a Virginia Republican familiar with the situation said that the Texas governor did not submit the required 10,000.

Earlier Friday, the Republican Party of Virginia certified former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.) to appear in the March ballot.

tsetsefly
12-23-2011, 06:00 PM
where does it say newt also likely didn't get enough signatures....

DonovanJames
12-23-2011, 06:00 PM
Oh thats too good thanks for the quick update!

Aratus
12-23-2011, 06:01 PM
newt had submitted a very low number of sigs.
the waPo staff must be doing cartwheels now.

Epic
12-23-2011, 06:02 PM
Newt submitted even less than Perry, so if Perry is out, Newt likely is too.

Newt's campaign said he filed 11,000. Perry said he filed almost 12000.

LawnWake
12-23-2011, 06:02 PM
Seeing as the other candidates don't even bother to fill out their paperwork, can't we just stop campaigning and spend the left over cash on cookies? I like cookies.

nasaal
12-23-2011, 06:05 PM
Yay, home sweet home.

MRoCkEd
12-23-2011, 06:06 PM
Still waiting to see if Newt gets on...

Tyler_Durden
12-23-2011, 06:08 PM
"Oops."

So in the grand scheme of things, what does it mean?

braane
12-23-2011, 06:10 PM
http://www.facebook.com/VirginiaGOP?sk=wall

Waiting for Newt's results

neverseen
12-23-2011, 06:17 PM
so that means their supporters would have to write them in? What impact does this really have on a primary?

walt
12-23-2011, 06:18 PM
Based on the past indiscrestions of this campaign in 2008 with issues like this and other issues that we might not know about - I would not cheer about this too much.

Ballots should be accessible and we should prefer to win on the issues.

pauliticalfan
12-23-2011, 06:19 PM
"Oops."

So in the grand scheme of things, what does it mean?

Well it depends on if the race is still competitive by then. If Romney already has the nomination locked up by VA, Romney will win it handedly (at least 80%). If the nomination race is still competitive, I think it benefits us because we're the one and only anti-Romney. If by some miracle Romney is knocked out by VA (say he loses IA and NH), then we win the state and pick up a ton of delegates.

ronpaulfollower999
12-23-2011, 06:19 PM
Lol...what a mess.

pinkmandy
12-23-2011, 06:23 PM
"Oops."

So in the grand scheme of things, what does it mean?

In the 2008 primary Romney took just 4% of the vote in Virginia.
Huckabee did well as did the status quo McCain (would be Newt voters). Lots of room for Paul growth in Virginia. Romney was obviously not favored here last time. Between Romney and Paul I think Paul could sweep VA. Lots of conservatives (look at the shaded areas that Huckabee took in '08), lots of homeschoolers. :) No corrupt Newt in the primary in VA would be awesome news for us. Many status quo folks in Northern VA (govt spending gravy train) and on the coast (military spending + welfare spending gravy train). More conservatives everywhere else.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/interactives/campaign08/primaries/va/

For some reason the link isn't showing- I'll break it to see if that works.
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jkr
12-23-2011, 06:24 PM
did ohio get done?

GunnyFreedom
12-23-2011, 06:25 PM
Paul Derangement Syndrome on full display in the Paul thread on that FB group

braane
12-23-2011, 06:29 PM
Paul Derangement Syndrome on full display in the Paul thread on that FB group
10-4

parocks
12-23-2011, 06:30 PM
Seeing as the other candidates don't even bother to fill out their paperwork, can't we just stop campaigning and spend the left over cash on cookies? I like cookies.

http://ronpaulbar.com

MRoCkEd
12-23-2011, 06:31 PM
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P12/VA-R

If I'm reading this correctly, a two-man race means the delegate battle is essentially winner-take-all. Do we have a shot at winning outright, or would it be better to have Newt in there too to prevent anyone from getting 50%?

parocks
12-23-2011, 06:35 PM
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P12/VA-R

If I'm reading this correctly, a two-man race means the delegate battle is essentially winner-take-all. Do we have a shot at winning outright, or would it be better to have Newt in there too to prevent anyone from getting 50%?

I haven't heard too many brokered convention scenarios that sound great to me. If I heard brokered convention scenarios that sounded great, that would be different.

braane
12-23-2011, 06:48 PM
LOL. I love the debate going on in there...

"Ron Paul is anti-Israel"...

"No he isn't, here is why"...

"So Ron Paul is anti-Israel"...

Leave it to neocons to never bring facts to a debate.

squirekyle
12-23-2011, 06:50 PM
Focus on delegates, that's all we new to focus on, The Heart of Nashville didn't get 1 district delegate before the deadline. Really unfortunate since Romney is putting all of his focus on this.

harikaried
12-23-2011, 06:54 PM
How do signatures get disqualified during verification? This means at least 16% of Perry's signatures were no good.. ?

FreedomProsperityPeace
12-23-2011, 06:59 PM
did ohio get done?No, but as I understand it, the deadline is being changed there. I think March is supposed to be the new deadline.

eduardo89
12-23-2011, 07:04 PM
No, but as I understand it, the deadline is being changed there. I think March is supposed to be the new deadline.

Correct, the new law should come into effect in January. So far only Romney, perry and Grinch are on the Ohio ballot.

tsai3904
12-23-2011, 07:06 PM
How do signatures get disqualified during verification? This means at least 16% of Perry's signatures were no good.. ?

Signatures have to be from registered voters only and the address they list on the petition form must match with their registered address.

tsai3904
12-23-2011, 07:07 PM
No, but as I understand it, the deadline is being changed there. I think March is supposed to be the new deadline.

The deadline in Ohio got pushed back to December 30, not March.

V3n
12-23-2011, 07:08 PM
LOL! Romney and Paul are going to be the only ones mathematically able to win even before the first vote is cast!

eduardo89
12-23-2011, 07:12 PM
The deadline in Ohio got pushed back to December 30, not March.

Nope, it's going to be in march.


Maloney said that Ohio’s secretary of state, John Husted, encouraged all of the presidential candidates to make the deadline out of precaution, since the March filing deadline doesn’t apply until the new bill takes effect in January 2011.

Aratus
12-23-2011, 07:12 PM
mitch mcconnell is trying to find likely veeps for mitt romney.

only doctor ron paul can change this all. newt is total EGO.

tsai3904
12-23-2011, 07:17 PM
Nope, it's going to be in march.

That information was before the Ohio Governor signed a new law on December 14 moving the primary from June to Mach.

Aratus
12-23-2011, 07:19 PM
we've got until the 30th to get doctor ron paul on ohio's march ballot. i was hoping that he had signed it.

tsai3904
12-23-2011, 07:21 PM
we've got until the 30th to get doctor ron paul on ohio's march ballot. i was hoping that he had signed it.

It seems like the new law that was signed changed it so that signatures are not needed anymore.

http://ohioforronpaul.com/?p=439

RonPaulFanInGA
12-23-2011, 08:25 PM
"It’s three states in which I am on the ballot there. Iowa, New Hampshire and ahh, what’s the third one there, let’s see. Iowa, New Hampshire and ah, the, umm, the third state I will be on, ahhh, the ahhh...oops."

Adam West
12-23-2011, 08:48 PM
Seeing as the other candidates don't even bother to fill out their paperwork, can't we just stop campaigning and spend the left over cash on cookies? I like cookies.

Haha. I like cookies with RAW milk.

sailingaway
12-23-2011, 08:53 PM
Newt submitted even less than Perry, so if Perry is out, Newt likely is too.

Newt's campaign said he filed 11,000. Perry said he filed almost 12000.

But Newt hired some of his people to do it, they might have gone by registration roles. We'll see.

sailingaway
12-23-2011, 08:56 PM
The deadline in Ohio got pushed back to December 30, not March.

Do we know if they need help? Ron is already president of the internet. If we need to get information out, we need to know.

sailingaway
12-23-2011, 08:57 PM
mitch mcconnell is trying to find likely veeps for mitt romney.

only doctor ron paul can change this all. newt is total EGO.

No one would EVER pick Gingrich for VP.

No sane person would vote for him for president.... at least not if they remotely did their homework. Unreliable doesn't begin to touch it.

jcarcinogen
12-23-2011, 09:22 PM
A lot of people bashing Ron on that fb page...

skyorbit
12-23-2011, 09:24 PM
I just posted.