Word: balloters
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...Ensemble award coincided with the top Oscar. (Last year Little Miss Sunshine won at SAG, but The Departed got the nod from the Motion Picture Academy.) The reason for the discrepancy is simple: acting awards are all about acting; movie awards aren't. And in the final Oscar ballot, actors may be the largest voting bloc, but they represent no more than 30% of the Academy membership...
...bipartisan stimulus package he helped negotiate - both issues are vote winners for G.O.P. candidates. Beyond that, they're happy if he catches a few spears for them. Says one senior G.O.P. Hill aide: "If [the Democrats]want to spend resources attacking a President who won't be on the ballot, great." Neither party on the Hill expects Bush to have a big impact before he leaves office...
...Bloomberg said he's waiting to see what front-runners emerge before deciding to run. Does he seem like he knows the intricacies of getting on the ballot as a third-party candidate...
...Money is not enough in order to get on the ballot. For example in Texas we have perhaps the most difficult ballot access in the country because it's a combination as in all states of signature requirements - which in Texas is extraordinarily high, about 75,000 signatures - [and] timing requirements, the earlier the deadline the more difficult. And in Texas you cannot begin until the primary is over for Republican and Democratic presidential nominations and you have to end by May. So you have two months to collect 75,000 signatures. And the third prong is these silly...
...think he is planning to evaluate the situation as it unfolds to watch, to have the option of running. [It requires] taking action sooner rather than later because of the ballot access rule... So when we get into February and March a decision will have to be made on whether or not he wants to maintain the option of running by seeing if he could get on the ballot in sufficient states to be elected...