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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 06:45 PM
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Edwards Not on Vermont Democratic Ballot
Edited on Thu Feb-19-04 06:51 PM by Bleachers7
Note: I don't think he is on the RI ballot and he is missing a lot of districts in NY. That's 2 1/2 states he's not running in.
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John Edwards May Pay for Electing Not to File to Be on Vermont Democratic Primary Ballot

The Associated Press

MONTPELIER, Vt. Feb. 19 — Democrat John Edwards will not be on the ballot for Vermont's presidential primary March 2, a costly decision for the presidential candidate.
In January, when Howard Dean was still considered the front-runner, Edwards and several other candidates Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri, Al Sharpton and Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut decided not to file to get on the primary ballot in Dean's home state.

The deadline for a petition with 1,000 signatures from Vermont voters and $2,000 check was Jan. 20.

A month later, Dean, Gephardt and Lieberman have dropped out of the race, and the contest stands as a two-man race between John Kerry, the four-term Massachusetts senator who is on the ballot, and Edwards.

At stake March 2 in Vermont are 15 pledged delegates. Kerry already has more than a fourth of the 2,162 delegates needed to win the nomination, having pocketed 613 thus far, according to an Associated Press analysis. Edwards, the North Carolina senator, has 192.
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http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040219_1717.html
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Slice Donating Member (232 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 07:10 PM
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1. Wow
This means that Kerry will get like 90% of the vote there then.
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spooky3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 07:11 PM
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2. I hope Dean is still on the ballot.
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Cuban_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 07:12 PM
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3. Dean will hold Kerry down.
In fact, it may be the only primary Dr. Dean wins this year, and I hope he does.
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Slice Donating Member (232 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 07:25 PM
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4. No
Dean won't win. Gephardt hardly got any votes in MO, and Dean won't get that many votes in VT.
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Cuban_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 07:27 PM
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6. Wanna bet?
:)
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Slice Donating Member (232 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 07:30 PM
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7. Yes, I do.
I'll bookmark this thread and then kick it back up to the top on the night of March 2nd. :hi:
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Cuban_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 07:34 PM
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9. coolness!
:hi:
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knight_of_the_star Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 07:27 PM
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5. Ooops
THAT will hurt. I'm waiting anxiously now for the results to come in from those states :evilgrin:.
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DaisyUCSB Donating Member (455 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 07:32 PM
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8. 606,000 people can't have alot of delagates
and I'm not sure Edwards didn't end up getting on the RI ballot.

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