Akin's has a firm deadline for dropping out: TOMORROW.

[pnwmom]

After tomorrow, he can't be replaced without a court order.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/20/politics/campaign-wrap/index.html

Missouri election rules allow a candidate to withdraw with little difficulty through Tuesday, which is 11 weeks prior to the Nov. 6 election.

After Tuesday, the candidate must get a court order and pay for any necessary reprinting of ballots. The state Republican Party would choose another candidate to run against McCaskill, considered one of the most vulnerable senators in the country.

[nevergiveup]

1. Unfortunately for McCaskill, Todd will be gone by noon.

[lastlib]

2. which will make him a liar (big surprise)....

...he stated today on Hannity's shitfest that he was staying in and "fighting." (which is supposed to make him sound and feel like a big tough guy.)

[pnwmom]

4. I'm afraid so.

[amerikat]

3. Rachel Maddow spoke on this issue tonight.

Her research showed he can drop out tomorrow or he can drop out 5 weeks from now by getting a court order.
I'll see if I can find the clip from the show.

[Tx4obama]

6. See comment #5. Maddow may be wrong on this one. Akin is not yet the nominee. n/t

[Tx4obama]

5. It is unclear if he can even officially drop out yet because he is not officially the nominee

See below...


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First, Missouri allows a candidate who has been nominated by a political party to withdraw no later than 5:00 p.m. on the eleventh Tuesday prior to the general election which just happens to be this Tuesday. One caveat, the section requires that the withdrawing candidate have been nominated. However, a candidate is not nominated until the election results have been certified. Certification takes place within two weeks of the Secretary of State receiving the abstracts of returns for all of the counties and the counties can only submit the results after the county verification board meets, and the counties have two weeks to complete the verification process. In other words, Tuesday is the deadline for the counties to finish the verification process, and the Secretary of State does not need to certify the results until next Tuesday. So it is unclear that Representative Akin can officially withdraw at this point.

Assuming that he does, the State Republican Committee would then have two weeks to meet (after official notice is given by the Secretary of State which must be given within twenty-four hours of the Secretary learning of the vacancy). State law requires that a majority of the committee be present at the meeting, that the meeting take place in the area to be represented, and that a majority vote of those present is required to nominate a candidate. No proxies are allowed. That means notice would go out on Wednesday, and the nomination meeting would have to take place by the Wednesday after Labor Day. How many of the 68 members of the Republican state committee are going to be out of state through Labor Day in Tampa? It would be rather embarrassing to fail to get a quorum together and be unable to nominate a replacement candidate.

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http://www.demconwatchblog.com/diary/5463/akin-to-get-rid-of-him