A nice breather?
Well… it was fun while it lasted. And when I say “while it lasted,” I mean almost one whole fortnight, or maybe even less. The dream of President Kanye West has been dashed, as the rapper has called a halt to the gathering of petitions necessary to get on the November ballot in key states. But did anyone lose anything for the effort, or did we gain something — if nothing else, a renewed sense of civic duty, perhaps?
The 43-year-old rapper’s campaign has reportedly been suspended less than two weeks after he shocked the nation with a tweet that confirmed his decision to run for president of the United States in November.
According to a new report from Intelligencer, a “get-out-the-vote specialist” named Steve Kramer claims West is already “out” after the Yeezy founder hired both “paid and volunteer” staff to help him secure signatures in Florida and South Carolina to get him on the ballot.
Kramer claimed West’s team was “working over weekend there, formalizing the FEC and other things that they’ve got to do when you have a lot of corporate lawyers involved.”
The specialist claimed there was “overwhelming support” to get West on the ballot.
Except that West didn’t need to get on “the” ballot; he needed to get on 50 ballots. Presidents are elected state by state; there is no such thing as a federal ballot. As Allahpundit pointed out last week, the deadlines for ballot entry in several states had already passed, and more were coming up fast.
