Early Christmas Eve morning, the Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) reported that Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich failed to turn in enough valid signatures to make the Virginia primary ballot.

It should come as no shock to people following the Virginia GOP presidential primary saga that Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry all failed to make the primary ballot. Only Romney and Paul had the organizational structure in place to collect the required 10,000 valid signatures by the December 22 deadline.