Bush may not be on Alabama ballot in 2004

[ixnay]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/04/23/offbeat.bush.ballot.ap/index.html

MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) -- Unless Alabama's election law is changed, there could be one notable candidate missing from the state's 2004 presidential election ballot -- President Bush.
The problem is that the Republican National Convention is being held later than usual to avoid conflict with the Olympics, and the GOP won't choose a candidate until September 2 -- two days after Alabama's August 31 deadline to certify presidential contenders.
Republicans are asking the Democrat-controlled Legislature to change the law and extend the deadline until September 5.

After the Florida debacle, it'd be interesting to see what happens if all the Republicans there have to vote him in as a writein.

[Q Classic]

i find it amusing.

alabama would definitely go for bush, since it has a tendency to vote republican for national elections along with most of the south...

[Dis]

If this election is as close as the last one, he will need Alabama

[Japher]

I guess in Alabama you can't count on wright ins, seeing as the can't wright... like most of us here at poly.

Any way: Oh no Alabama!!!

[Urban Ranger]

Avoid conflicts with the Olympics? I am glad these people have all their priorities straighten out.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Well if they held it during the Olympics they wouldn't get the same network coverage.

After all, it is just a political convention.

[Buck Birdseed]

You know, in some countries Political conventions include "debates" where the delegates set "policy".

[Imran Siddiqui]

Not here, not here .

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
You know, in some countries Political conventions include "debates" where the delegates set "policy".

Where ?

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
You know, in some countries Political conventions include "debates" where the delegates set "policy".

"Debates"?

Rings a bell... weren't those outlawed in the Patriot Act?

[spartak]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Where ?

Europe for a start...

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
You know, in some countries Political conventions include "debates" where the delegates set "policy".

We prefer to throw drunken orgies at our conventions.

[*End Is Forever*]

Oh, that happens too.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Taz
Europe for a start...

Europe is a country? :looks at Atlas:

[Alexander's Horse]

I wish Bush would get on a ballot somewhere where I could vote against the bastard.