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« on: May 12, 2024, 08:16:29 AM » |
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I spent the summer and fall of 2007 organizing and then collecting signatures to get McCain on the IL ballot. Even though McCain's campaign largely fell apart mid-2007, I found that republican voters throughout the fall were happy to sign petitions to get him on the ballot. The response was generally along the lines that McCain was a known quantity and would be solid on the key issue of Iraq.
IL had moved its primary to the beginning of Feb to boost Obama, so all primary petitions had to be submitted before Thanksgiving. That freed me to help in IA as a surrogate, including a position as a caucus-night surrogate in Scott county. When McCain had a virtual 3rd place (many early reports had him running in clear 3rd which helped cement the national come-back narrative), we were ecstatic as that was the target to move on to NH.
IL and the rest of Super Tuesday was less than 5 weeks after IA and the ground game was decidedly picking up. IL elects district delegates directly by delegate name with the associated candidate, and McCain's success got me a ticket to the RNC in St Paul as a floor delegate.
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