As Romney spokesman Ryan Williams explained to me, campaigns must gather the signatures of 1,000 registered Vermont voters and pay a $2,000 filing fee to get on the ballot there.
"We submitted more than double the required signatures," Williams noted.
It's a subtle reminder to Christie about the organizational demands that come with a presidential bid. A White House bid doesn't just mean collecting big bucks from fawning CEOs — it's also putting together an operation that can do the less glamorous but just as essential work of standing outside supermarkets to collect signatures so you can get on the ballot.
via politico.com
Love it, Team Romney. And note to Christie -- the longer you wait to get signatures in Vermont the colder it gets. So cold, in fact, the ink in ball point pens are liable to freeze while you are standing outside those supermarkets. And frozen pens make getting those signatures nearly impossible.