NEWT: Virginia-no votes for Gingrich

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Newt Gingrich did not qualify to get on Virginia’s primary ballot. To make matters worse, state law does not allow write-in votes. Without Virginia primary votes, can Newt capture the GOP nomination?

CNN Article (Quote)

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich failed to collect enough signatures to appear on the Virginia primary ballot, the Republican Party of Virginia announced Saturday morning, leaving the longtime Virginia resident without a place on the state’s ballot and raising questions about his campaign’s organization.

“Voters deserve the right to vote for any top contender, especially leading candidates,” campaign director Michael Krull said in the statement.” * * *

* * *Virginia state law specifically prohibits voters from writing in candidates not on the ballot in primary elections.

Source: Steve Brusk,“Gingrich, Perry fail to qualify for GOP primary ballot in Virginia,” CNN POLITICS

Our Take

Virginia’s primary election could be pivotal. It’s an early primary which usually signals how the South will vote.

So, if Newt is out in Virginia, who’s in, and will the Virginia win propel another GOP candidate forward on the road to winning the GOP Presidential nomination?

Around the Web

• Gingrich attacks Virginia for keeping him off ballot (goerie.com)
• Virginia state law prohibits writing in candidates who are not on the ballot in primary elections – @PoliticalTicker (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com)
• Newt Gingrich Fails To Qualify For Virginia GOP Primary (huffingtonpost.com)
• Gingrich Write-In Campaign Hopes Dashed (politicalwire.com)
• Gingrich Campaign Plans Pointless, Illegal Write-In Campaign In Virginia (outsidethebeltway.com)
• Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry fail to qualify for Virginia primary ballot (100gf.wordpress.com)
• Gingrich camp assails Virginia’s “failed system” (cbsnews.com)
• Gingrich Will Run An ‘Agressive Write-In Campaign’ In Virginia Primaries, Where Write-Ins Are Illegal (thinkprogress.org)
• Gingrich, Perry, Fail to Qualify for Virginia Primary Ballot (inquisitr.com)
• Virginia poll ‘failed’ – Gingrich (bbc.co.uk)
• Newt Gingrich & Rick Perry lose spot in crucial Virginia Primary (bazaardaily.com)

 

GOP PRIMARY: is it all about white male privilege?

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Were the GOP Debates  both “interesting and important?”

Source: THE WASHINGTON POST

At the end of the day, have the Debates been, and will they be, about the players, the losers, the ratings or the visual?

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GOP Debates: The Visual

Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul, the GOP’s all star cast, the “iron men” of GOP politics,  ”Back Together Again!”

Is this the visual America has been waiting to see in the GOP Presidential nomination contest? Will it fire up the GOP electorate?

Has the contest been, and will it reflect the image, a contest for white boys only? Bye, bye Michelle Bachmann and Herman Cain?

Does not the visual say it all?

You decide.

Read More Around the Web

• Mitt Romney: Newt Gingrich Is An ‘Extraordinarily Unreliable Leader In The Conservative World’ (huffingtonpost.com)
• Blame Fox When GOP Loses (newser.com)
• David Axelrod Compares Newt Gingrich To A Monkey (huffingtonpost.com)
• Gingrich Leads, But Likely GOP Primary Voters Have Not Ruled Out Romney – Pew Research Center (policyabcs.wordpress.com)
• Oh my: Ron Paul within one point of Gingrich in Iowa? (hotair.com)
• NBC/WSJ poll: Tough for Romney now, Gingrich later (firstread.msnbc.msn.com)
• Gingrich Clear Frontrunner; Can’t Beat Obama (outsidethebeltway.com)
• O’Donnell: I like Mitt’s flip (politico.com)
• Paul Surges in Iowa (politicalwire.com)
• Paul reacts to positive poll fortunes, nagging questions about electability (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com)
• Ron Paul questions stamina in protracted nomination fight (thehill.com)
• Newt Gingrich still leads the GOP field – but Barack Obama would crush him (guardian.co.uk)
• Ron Paul close to beating Newt Gingrich in Iowa? (100gf.wordpress.com)
• A-Paul-calypse Now: Ron Paul Trails Newt Gingrich By 1 Point In New Iowa Poll (mediaite.com)
• Will Ron Paul Be the Next GOP Frontrunner? (pjmedia.com)
• The State Of The GOP Race: Are We In For A Protracted Primary Season? (npr.org)

Related articles

• Will Ron Paul Be the Next GOP Frontrunner? (pjmedia.com)
• The State Of The GOP Race: Are We In For A Protracted Primary Season? (npr.org)

 

OBAMA: Chris Matthews-thrill is gone: are liberals concerned about President Barack Obama?

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Are liberals [really] concerned about President Barack Obama?

VIDEO Lead

Source: See, “Thrill is Gone,” VIDEO, uploaded in News Videos, Sidebar, in which MSNBC‘s Chris Matthews sounds off!

Issues

Is the “thrill [really] gone?”

Or, is the commentary by Chris Matthews, a high profile MSNBC media personality, intended as a strategic diversion to deflect attention and media coverage away from the coverage of Newt Gingrich and the GOP contest?

Also Reads

• The Thrill Is Gone? Chris Mathews Challenge on the Obama’s Stay in the White House (ireporters.wordpress.com)
• Chris Matthews: Unhappiness in the Boy King’s Castle (constitutionclub.org)
• Why should we vote for an Obama second term, asks … Chris Matthews; Update: “Give us our orders” (hotair.com)
• The Tingle Didn’t Linger: Matthews Turns On Obama? (minx.cc)
• Chris Matthews: Unhappiness in the Boy King’s Castle (mikesright.wordpress.com)
• Chris Matthews: Obama Team Has Too Many ‘Little Kids With Propellers On Their Heads’ (mediaite.com)
• “It is Fine … That Barack Obama is Not a Liberal” (economistsview.typepad.com)