What happens if O'Donnell drops out of the race?

[Duer 157099]

Does Coons run unopposed?

Does the GOP get to just stick someone else in that slot?

Anyone know?

:shrug:

[davidinalameda]

1. they probably could

if a candidate drops out, the party can fill the spot within a certain amount of time before the election

don't know what the deadline would be though

[movonne]

2. good question .... I would like to know that also..

[bluestateguy]

3. Are any of the Very Serious People talking about that happening?

News to me.

[madmax]

4. Why would she drop out?

She's the new Teabagging Darling. :shrug:

Remember - They're Teabaggers not Teapartiers :evilgrin:

[Duer 157099]

6. Well, she might get an offer she can't refuse

if you know what I mean. I wouldn't put it past the GOP leadership to strongarm her.

[madmax]

14. Ah, sleeps with da fishes. nt ;)

[MattBaggins]

11. The Bill Maher clip of her claiming to have dappled in witchcraft

She is TOOOOOOAAAAAST.

Karl Rove was right. They assuredly have much worse info on her than Maher does. They will oust her to get someone else in before it is too late.

[hlthe2b]

5. I feel pretty confident that O'Donnell will ride the "Victim" card

to the bitter end. Those teabagger sycophants will just double down in their "Lame Stream Media" accusations and all the out-of-state $$ will probably carry her to election day. A sense of shame seems to be missing in Sarah Palin and among her minions.

But, it is interesting to contemplate.

[lunatica]

7. She won't drop out

The Koch brothers will pay all her bills and pay off the IRS and buy her wonderful clothes and Fox will promise her her own show and she'll get to Dance with the Stars and write her bloviations and have her books guaranteed to sell in volume. She'll get to tweet and pull everyone's chain and make millions just blathering thoughtless idiocies.

[MattBaggins]

13. One little problem... The true Powers That Be are "in it to win it".

There are very powerful business forces that want to continue the rape of this country. They want the Repubs in power and the backroom true leaders of the GOP are most assuredly working to get her off the ballot.

I will eat my shoes if she isn't pushed out very soon.

[Mz Pip]

8. Why would she do that?

She's getting so much attention and loving every minute of it. She's dumber than a box of rocks but would blend right in with all the rest of the GOP Senators should she actually win.

[davepc]

9. Cold day in hell she drops out. She's in it for her own ego as much as anything else.

When she gets crushed in the general election she'll blame anybody and everybody but herself.

[MineralMan]

10. She won't drop out. She'll be able to live a couple of years on the

money she siphons from her campaign fund. If she dropped out, she'd have no income and end up in a shelter somewhere. No fun for her.

[opihimoimoi]

12. Fame and Fortune??? Give it up??? You nuts??? She ain't

She is a REPUBLICAN

Able to mesmerize in a single breath

Faster than a speeding Star

Nope,,,,the sour notes from her side has not crescendoed yet

she knows not of Global Music...that of Peace

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCEXyBSvtho&feature=related

[MadMaddie]

15. O'Donnell may have legal issues such as misappropriated

funds from her previous election runs. Her prior campaign manager said she spent the money on rent and other expenses.

[opihimoimoi]

16. Early reports indicate wrong doing of the Fed Election Laws...series kine

Poor thing....she is the last rose

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCEXyBSvtho&feature=related

[ProgressiveEconomist]

17. It happened yesterday in the RI race for Lt Gov. I don't know about DE, but in RI

there's a deadline for a statewide primary winner to drop out and a deadline for the party chair to name a replacement: After those deadlines have passed, apparently the candidate's name stays on the ballot on the party's ballot-line.

Something similar happens in DC: While Mayor Adrien Fenty lost the Democratic primary, in the same election he got 800 write-in votes on the Republican primary ballot, and had a chance to decline the nomination.

From http://newsblog.projo.com/2010/09/gop-primary-winner-drops-out-o.html :

"Update: GOP primary winner drops out of RI lt. gov. race
By Katherine Gregg, Providence Journal State House Bureau
5:03 PM Fri, Sep 17, 2010

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Days after winning the Republican primary, Heidi Rogers has dropped out of the race for lieutenant governor this afternoon.

That leaves two Independents in a race against the $99,214 a year incumbent Democrat Elizabeth Roberts....

The deadline for candidates to withdraw their names from the ballot -- or for a party chairman to name a replacement -- is 4 p.m. Rogers came in just under the wire. ...."