On Sep 1, 9:39�am, ChattyCathy > wrote:
> Bob Terwilliger wrote:
> > Stan wrote:
>
> >> If experience is so important for presidential candidates, then why
> >> in the world did the Republicans eschew McCain in the 2000 Republican
> >> primary and nominate a draft dodger with zero experience in foreign
> >> and national politics; a person who had never even traveled abroad?
>
> > Because that's who the voters *wanted*. I think hindsight shows it was
> > a disastrous mistake.
>
> > Bob
>
> Nah. I think it was because they didn't have a MCINL option on the
> ballot.

In the US write-ins are permitted... anyone can vote for themself.