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Race For The Presidency
Winning the 2008 Nomination
By Rhodes Cook |
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Bill Clinton put Arkansas on the national political map, and now it is Republican Mike Huckabee's turn to see if he can keep it there. At the least, Huckabee's home state primary on Feb. 5 should give the former Arkansas governor a toehold in the vast Super Tuesday vote.
With no party registration in Arkansas, voters can participate in either party's primary. As of February 2007, there were 1,610,940 active registered voters in Arkansas.
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DEMOCRATS |
REPUBLICANS |
| THE CALENDAR |
Primary Date
(polling hours) |
Feb. 5
(7:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m.) |
Feb. 5
(7:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m.) |
| Filing Deadline |
Nov. 19, 2007 |
Nov. 19, 2007 |
| Filing Procedure |
Democratic candidates must either pay a $2,500 filing fee to the state party or file petitions signed by at least 5,000 voters who participated in the 2004 Democratic primary or marked a Democratic preference on their voter registration form. Republican candidates must pay a $15,000 filing fee to the state party. |
| THE DELEGATES |
| Number (% of national total) |
47 (1.1%) |
34 (1.4%) |
| Distribution: |
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By district |
22 (5 or 6 per district) |
12 (3 per district) |
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At-Large |
8 |
19 |
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Pledged PEOs |
5 |
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RNC members |
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3 |
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Superdelegates |
12 |
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| Method of Allocation |
Proportional—15% of vote needed to win a share of statewide or district delegates. |
Winner-take-all or Proportional—10% of the statewide vote is needed to win an at-large delegate. Any candidate who wins a statewide majority takes the remaining at-large delegates; otherwise, they are divided proportionally among the top three statewide vote-getters. A candidate that wins a majority in an individual district wins all three delegates; if no candidate wins a majority, the highest vote-getter in the district receives two delegates and the runner-up receives one. |
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