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Let's Start With The Good News For HRC
• She crushed Barack Obama in Kentucky, West Virginny-style, with 65 percent of the vote to Obama's 35 percent of the vote. She won in every area in the state except for Louisville and Lexington. • Only 1/3 of Hillary's voters said they would be willing to vote for Obama in the primary. The nay-sayers said he "doesn't share their values and is untrustworthy." Gotcha. No Democratic president has won without the state of Kentucky since JFK beat Nixon. This might not be as much good news for Hillary Clinton as it is bad news for the Democratic party. Bad news for Hillary Clinton: • She lost Oregon 42 to 58. • Obama pulled even with her in Oregon with white women and voters without college educations. • Obama might have a hard road in making states like Kentucky and West Virginia blue, but he could possibly change the political landscape in traditional red states like Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, and even Mississippi and South Carolina (or so I've read) — something she doesn't have a chance of doing. • Obama now needs about 70 delegates to seal the nomination. She needs about 250. |
![]() As we all probably know by now — we all probably knew before the vote even took place — Barack Obama won Oregon's primary last and and Hillary Clinton won Kentucky's. So, uh, it looks like we're still in it for the long haul. As usual, check out some shots, courtesy of the WaPo and NYT, of the candidates campaigning in the two states. The picture above gives a glimpse of the 75,000-person crowd that showed up to support Obama in Portland this weekend. |
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Gun Nuts
Just hours ago (yay Internets!) Bible-thumping quitter Mike Huckabee addressed the National Rifle Association convention in Louisville, Kentucky, where he offered up this bon mot when a crash offstage interrupted his speech:
Ha! Get it? People want to kill Barack Obama because of his liberal gun policies. And some people want to kill him because he's a powerful black man. Isn't that hilarious? |
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FAULTY SYSTEMS "…one out of every four African-Americans in Kentucky isn't allowed to vote…This startling statistic from the Kentucky League of Women means a fourth of African-Americans in the state of Kentucky will never be able to vote because of their status as convicted felons. 'It makes no sense because it defeats the purpose of our corrections system, which is to re-habilitate those who have committed crimes,' said Governor Steve Beshear." Equally as startling is that a quarter of the African Americans in Kentucky are convicted felons. |