&gt; U.S. Senate vacancies are filled by a governor's appointee, with the seat on the next general election ballot. The secretary of state has interpreted that to mean that if McCain's seat is vacated by May 31, it would be on the August primary and November general election ballot. The new proposal changes that to 150 days before the primary, or March 31 of this year. That takes McCain's seat out of play.

So we're clear on this, they decided that if McCain stepped down or died before March 31st - which has already passed - they'd be okay with having the seat up for grabs in November.


Wow.  That's some BS right there.