I bet they didn't mean to do that...

[caddyman]

This piece of news comes to me courtesy suitandtieguy, so I can't pretend to have hunted it down myself.

The US Libertarian Party report that down in Texas voters will have the choice of voting for Bob Barr for US President in November, or not voting at all.

"Unless the state of Texas violates its own election laws, Congressman Barr will be the only presidential candidate on the ballot," says Russell Verney, campaign manager for the Barr Campaign and the former campaign manager for Ross Perot. "Texas law makes no exceptions for missing deadlines."

I'm sure that there are some shenanigens ahead in the next few months that will enrich dozens of lawyers in the Lone Star State as both the Democrats and Republicans try to make up for their lapse.

That said, I guess the Republicans should worry more than the Democrats? Armed with a view of US political whimsey based almost entirely on the premise that I won't like anyone they elect and a shaky understanding of voting patterns culled almost exclusively from watching The West Wing, I'd have thought that the chances of Texas voting Democrat is less likely than snow drifts in Houston on Independence Day.

So kerching then, for Barracks O'Bama.