Former Democratic presidential candidate Jim Webb may not be a former presidential candidate after all.
Webb dropped out of the Democratic race in October.
But he just fired a new fundraising director, Sam Jones.
Jones previously headed up fundraising for an effort to convince Vice-President Joe Biden to enter the Democrat contest.
And the announcement came from his still-active presidential campaign.
But if Webb isn’t running for the Democrat nomination, why is his campaign still open, and why did he hire a fundraising director?
The answer could be Virginia’s 13 electoral votes.
Webb is formerly a United States senator from Virginia.
And it only takes 5,000 signatures to get on the ballot in Virginia as an independent presidential candidate, which Webb could collect in just days.
Were Webb to place himself on the November 2016 ballot in Virginia as an independent presidential candidate, he would lose badly.
But Virginia is a swing state. Obama won it in 2012 by just 3.88 percent.
If Webb were to get just four percent of the vote in Virginia he’d lose, but that four percent could include enough Democrats to hand those 13 electoral votes to the Republican nominee.
And if the 2016 election is decided by 13 electoral votes, Hillary Clinton would have lost the presidential election to a candidate who dropped out over a year earlier.
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