Gingrich, Perry Fail to Make VA Ballot
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports:
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has failed to qualify for Virginia's
presidential primary, the Republican Party of Virginia announced early
Saturday.
The state GOP announced at 2:40 a.m. that Gingrich, like Texas Gov. Rick Perry, had failed to amass the required 10,000 signatures of registered voters
to qualify for the March 6 contest.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Rep. Ron Paul, certified
earlier Friday by the state GOP, will be the only candidates on the ballot.
The stunning result means Gingrich — who lives in McLean, led among
Virginia's GOP primary voters in the latest poll and is vying with Romney for
national front-runner status — will not get a chance to compete with Romney in
the state's primary.
Gingrich's list of Iowa supporters -- famously full of errors and inaccuracies -- foreshadowed his failure in Virginia. Sweating the details has never been his strength.
