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.

Comments

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

Quite - Ever heard of LBJ! Thinking Republican and Democrat are pure left and right as we think of them is wrong. Remember when LBJ was doing one of the most incredible political head-cracking exercises ever (the forcing through of the civil rights laws) the big hold-outs (to my knowledge) were southern DEMOCRATS. Yeah the Republicans thses days seemed to have fossilised a great deal and the Democrats seem to not know what they stand for but they have not always been like this. Many states thought of as pure Republican didn't used to be. The Republicans were pro-emancipation when many Democrats were slagging off Lincoln.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Ever heard of LBJ?

I tell you mate, if I hadn't camped out on that grassy knoll, neither would you.

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

AH-HA! I have you...what a schoolboy error!

Damn you for what you did - not for killing JFK but for making the brains-in-trousers git a martyr.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

D'OH!