Sign Here, Please: McCain Short In CD04, May Not Make Indiana Ballot
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain will be here tomorrow, but he might not be on the Indiana ballot in May. Blue Indiana creates and reports this story:
For those of you who have been following the site over the last few days, you are probably well aware that I have been covering the gubernatorial signature battle, as both of our candidates sought to get their 500 signatures in each congressional district, and thus earn a place on the statewide ballot for the May primary. As part of that process, I've been requesting daily updates from the Indiana Election Division, which keeps a rolling tally of the number of signatures that each candidate has collected.
Now, I'm originally from the 4th District, so curiosity led me to check out who had made it (and by how much) in my old stomping ground. To my surprise, I noticed that John McCain -- the presumptive front-runner for the GOP nomination -- was just a little short in a few districts, including my precious 4th, despite the fact that Attorney General Steve Carter had already turned in their petitions. I made a few phone calls, and one by one I found out that the McCain camp had got the job done across the state.
Except in the 4th District.
In the 4th District, they are short.
By my latest count, they turned in 496 signatures for the 4th, and the latest IED report for this morning shows them with only 491.
Lots of big-name Republicans, including the Guv and Attorney General Steve Carter, turned in McCain's petitions as though they were complete. They were not. When caught, they changed their story to say that there are still petitions coming in, which is interesting, since they were due for certification last Tuesday.
Are we really to believe that after nine days, some county clerk is going to find a few stragglers stuck to the back of some absentee ballot applications?
They really dropped the ball on this one. At best, it's sloppiness. At worst, it's incompetence.
Of course, the national chattering class is chewing on this McCain-related story today. Sex sells, baby.
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