Gingrich Ballot Failure Highlights Challenge to Campaign<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNewt Gingrich's failure to get on the ballot in the critical state of Virginia is a bad signal to his supporters.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
His campaign failed to get 10,000 approved signatures to put him on the ballot there, so he won't be. Which, given it's his "adopted" state, and he was leading in the polls there, and it has a nice batch of delegates for the picking … means it's a huge organizational failure here, and one that … Continue reading “Virginia is for lovers, but not, apparently, for Newt”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24875,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/26\/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed-fulminate-and-then-do-something-illegal.html","url_meta":{"origin":24815,"position":0},"title":"If at first you don't succeed, fulminate and then do something illegal!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Dec-11 12:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"That seems to be Newt's strategy in Virginia, where his campaign failed to get 10K legit signatures for him to run (in his \"home\" state). 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Maybe Ron Paul, strictly from a libertarian standpoint (though I think he'd still have some serious policy disagreements with him), but certainly not Newt.That Newt likes SF is no more meaningful than if he professed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25825,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/30\/the-newt-mitt-show.html","url_meta":{"origin":24815,"position":3},"title":"The Newt & Mitt Show","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 30-Jan-12 11:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"Pretty much. #ddtb","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25764,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/26\/doles-revenge.html","url_meta":{"origin":24815,"position":4},"title":"Dole's Revenge","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 26-Jan-12 6:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Bob Dole issues a statement (through the Romney campaign) claiming that Newt's antics during his tenure as House Speaker torpedoed his own '96 presidential aspirations. 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