It's official: Obama on the ballot for reelection...

[SidDithers]

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-biden-new-hampshire-20111020,0,4585293.story

When Vice President Joe Biden handed a simple one-page form to New Hampshire's secretary of state Thursday, he guaranteed for the first time Barack Obama's name would appear on a ballot for reelection, doing so in a state where voters' opinion of the president have markedly changed in the three years since they backed his initial candidacy.

On the fourth day of the two-week filing period, Biden waded through a throng of excited supporters crowding the hallway of the New Hampshire statehouse to "make it official," as the vice president put it.

"Barack Obama is running for president of the United States!" Biden announced behind the historic desk used once every four years for the dozens of presidential hopefuls who file each year.

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The team does have this going for it: at least for now, no other Democratic candidate has filed yet to run in the New Hampshire primary. Gardner said no candidate has run unopposed in a recent primary, since the threshold to qualify is intentionally low.

Only a week left to get those papers in, primary challengers!

Sid

[Owlet]

1. It's only a one-page form?

Hell, I didn't know that. Concord is only a two-hour drive from here. Guess I'll wander up there and throw my beanie into the ring. I mean, really, who would not vote for a Basset? ;-)

[FSogol]

2. Where did the "primary challenge to Obama" folks go? I assumed this thread would be popcorn worthy.

:popcorn:

[SidDithers]

4. Probably the same place the "I don't think he's going to run again" folks went...

:hi:

Sid

[flamingdem]

5. They are too busy missing Quaddafi

Leave Qwadaffi alone!

[FSogol]

6. Sadly true. n/t

[mkultra]

8. they are probably all in a staff meeting together

[Umbral]

9. It's not really a brain teaser...

Advocating for a 3rd party "ist Verboten".

[dionysus]

3. vaht? NH? how did you get there? did you drive.. or did you flew?

:hi:

[Zorra]

7. Only millionaires/billionaires can run for President unless they are sponsored by wealthy

private interests.

A person of moderate economic circumstances would go completely broke in a heartbeat unless they were being financed by wealthy private interests.

If the only way to finance campaigns was through public financing and regular folks could run for President, the primary field would be flooded with candidates challenging Obama.

No one wants to spend all their time, money and energy running against a candidate that has unlimited funding from wealthy private interests.

It's futile.

[TheWraith]

10. Keep moving those goalposts!

And don't forget to studiously ignore that 98% of Obama's donations come from individual small donors, with no PAC money whatsoever.