decision disenfranchises virginia's voters. >> shepard: time was a factor here, too doug? >> huge factor. primary day is super tuesday march 6th. law requires that absentee ballots be mailed out 45 days before that deadline on january 21st. the state attorney general contended it would be just impossible to get all those absentee ballots reprinted with the names of all six candidates and mailed out in time. the judge in this decision basically concurred with that. shep? >> shepard: doug mckelway on capitol hill. thanks a the lo. the g.o.p. is building up a war chest for whoever its future nominee turns out to be. the republic national committee reports it raised $27 million in the last three months of 2011. the democratic national committee raised slightly less during that same period according to its reporting. of course, neither of those totals includes individual campaign fundraising. jed the obama administration announced it took in 42 million bucks compared to the republic frontrunner mitt romney who raised 24 million