Late on September 9, the Kentucky Secretary of State determined that the independent petitions for Rocky De La Fuente and Evan McMullin are valid. Thanks to several people for this news.
Late on September 9, the Kentucky Secretary of State determined that the independent petitions for Rocky De La Fuente and Evan McMullin are valid. Thanks to several people for this news.
McMullin didn’t even break triple digits for ballot access.
McMullin started too late. He might do well (5% or so) in Utah given that he is a Mormon, but that’s about it.
Did he start too late to deny Johnson a long-shot chance of carrying a state? It seems to me that was one of the main points of his otherwise futile campaign.
I think he is trying to garner enough support in Utah from the regular candidates (Trump, Clinton, Johnson), that he could win a (long-shot) majority in that state.
By splitting the vote with Johnson in Utah (who is now in third place there in the polls), he is making a long shot that anti-Trump/anti-Hillary candidate can carry that state an impossibility. Again, I don’t think that the people baking McMullin realistically now think they can carry Utah. They can cut into Johnson’s vote, however.
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By splitting the vote with Johnson in Utah (who is now in third place there in the polls), he is making a long shot that an anti-Trump/anti-Hillary candidate can carry that state into an impossibility. Again, I don’t think that the people backing McMullin realistically now think they can carry Utah. They can cut into Johnson’s vote, however.