If McCain drops out of the election...

[JuniperLea]

The election will be postponed! We can't have that!

[washingdem]

1. He's not dropping out.

[JuniperLea]

7. According to the Wall Street Journal

Who have been leaning... no LISTING to the right since Murdock came onboard, said he has suspended his campaign.

I don't trust the GOP at all.

Now there are reports that McCain has pulled all his ads.

[washingdem]

16. Yes. I don't dispute that: He's suspending it temporarily. He's not dropping out.

[JuniperLea]

17. We shall see...

Even Faux News thinks he's jumping ship.

[washingdem]

24. Sorry, but that's a ludicrous suggestion.

[Life Long Dem]

26. Why is it ludicrous to want to jump ship by suspending the race?

What he should do is forfeit the race by dropping out to fulfill his cause. While Obama finishes this race, as OUR CAUSE! Fuck the timeout crap.

[washingdem]

28. It's ludicrous to suggest that McCain is dropping out. That's just totally absurd.

[BlooInBloo]

2. Why would the election be postponed?

[JuniperLea]

6. Because the crybaby GOP would call foul with no one on the ticket...

And there isn't enough time left for a proper campaign to start from scratch.

[SoonerPride]

3. The election will happen with or with McLame

The ballots are already set.

[JuniperLea]

9. How long before the crybaby GOP calls foul?

I've thought for a long time that there would be some excuse NOT to hold this election... this seems to fit.

[Whalestoe]

4. Why wouldn't they just nominate someone new?

Why punish America?

[shraby]

5. To nominate someone else wouldn't work..the

ballots are set and people will cast their votes on them as is.

[JuniperLea]

8. There's not enough time to campaign from scratch

They will cry foul...

[Arugula Latte]

23. Too freakin' bad if they cry foul.

They made their bed; they must lie in it. And I mean LIE!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

11. I'm thinking they can't legally nominate anybody else.

Campaign contributions, public finance, and all that jazz.

[tekisui]

10. The goppers can suck it. Nader, Barr, McKinney and Obama

will be on the ballot. It will be the end of the gop, and not a moment too soon.

[WeDidIt]

12. #1, he won't drop out

#2, the date of the election is set via the constitution and Title 3 of the United States Code.

#3 to alter that date would require an act of Congress, something unlikely to occur in order to help the minority party.

[JuniperLea]

13. Since when has BushCo supported Constitutional law?

Since when has Congress been reliable?

I don't trust them. None of them.

[WeDidIt]

20. Since when has your tinfoil hat loosened?

The date is set in stone. It ain't changin'

[JuniperLea]

21. I thought the same thing about my personal notes, papers, etc. eom

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. If he did that, it would devastate the GOP in the House and Senate races

It would guarantee overwhelming Democratic majorities in the legislature. The GOP would find some way to replace him. I'm sure there must be rules that allow the substitution of a candidate, if the agreed upon candidate can't continue.

[goclark]

22. Could Palin bail out, McPain select a new VP

than the new VP could take McCain's place? :shrug:

[tinrobot]

15. Won't happen. Don't forget Ashcroft lost to a dead guy.

The election will go on with or without McCain.

[Erin Elizabeth]

18. They can't postpone the election, they can't nominate someone new.

Basically McCain can suspend his campaign and do nothing from here until election day and he and Palin will still be on the ticket, most likely having their asses handed to them, but they'll be on it.

I'm salivating at this news. How does this look to the people who were just weakly supporting him? He just said on CNN that we don't know what to do about the financial crisis so why the heck would he need to suspend his whole campaign, pull his ads, postpone the debates just to deal with it?

Obama is a senator, too, and he's not pulling ads, canceling campaign stops or trying to get out of the debates.

The McCain campaign is in much deeper doo doo than I thought.

[JuniperLea]

19. Far more so than we realized, aparently...

I wonder if this has anything to do with Palin's affair with hubby's former business partner, who now has a name. Or, the myriad of other failings in the McCain camp.

What a horrible thing for the GOP to do to that old, decrepit man! What a nasty way to end a political career!

[Life Long Dem]

25. Obama is on a runaway train right now and they want to stop it any way they can.

[jberryhill]

27. Ummm.... not under the law of my state.... Dunno about yours

On November 4, Delawareans will be selecting our electors.

In what odd state do you live?

[demokatgurrl]

29. Oh STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP. n/t