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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. |
![]() Every lazy, elitist, African American, over-educated, naive, easily-entranced, geeky, too-young-to-know-better, allergic-to-hard-work, atheist, and/or Muslim person in the Portland area must have left their calendars open Sunday, because a record-breaking 75,000 supporters showed up to an Obama rally on the Oregon city's waterfront this weekend. The photo doesn't lie. |