Posted on 05/12/2008 12:50:04 PM PDT by kingattax
(CNN) — Even as her campaign appears to be in its final stages, Hillary Clinton is headed for two sweeping victories in West Virginia and Kentucky, the next two states to weigh in on the prolonged Democratic presidential race.
According to new polls released Monday, Clinton holds a 34 point lead in West Virginia and a 27 point lead in Kentucky.
In West Virginia, which votes Tuesday, a Suffolk University Poll has Clinton drawing 60 percent of likely Democratic voters compared to Obama's 24 percent. That poll also shows Clinton holds a 70 percent approval rating among West Virginia’s Democratic primary voters. Only half the state’s primary the state’s likely primary voters think Barack Obama can beat John McCain in a general election matchup.
In Kentucky, a Research 2000 poll shows Clinton winning 58 percent of the vote to Obama's 31 percent. But despite Clinton's strength in the state, the poll suggests John McCain would easily defeat both Democrats in November — the Arizona senator holds a 25 point advantage over Obama and a 12 point lead over Clinton. Kentucky is considered a solidly Republican state, though former President Bill Clinton carried it twice. The state's primary is May 20.
It remains unclear how Clinton's likely large wins in both states will affect the presidential race, given Obama's significant lead in total delegates. Only 28 pledged delegates are at stake in West Virginia Tuesday, while 51 are up for grabs in Kentucky.
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I did not think HoBama would be big with the coalmining and assembly plant worker crowd..... ;)
....the Clinton’s are laying the groundwork for 2012...they figure when Obama loses in November they’ll say I told you so....West Va and Kentucky primaries are going to foreshadow the Obama disaster in the general election...I expect that a lot of the big shot Dems know this too...they just don’t know how to get away from Obama without Detroit/Baltimore/Philly/Cleveland/L.A./Atlanta ect. going up in flames....they’re stuck with him and they know it.
the media goons will still be slobberin all over obama even if hellary gets 100% of the vote.
Is Kentucky an open primary?
Has anyone actually driven from say, Virginia to West Virginia? It’s downright scary. Unfortunately, the jokes exist about these places for a reason. And yes, it’s slowly changing, but not nearly enough, imho. It figures these states would support Clinton.
Obama is the nominee, even if people here on FR can't deal with it.
I still must admit that I amazed at the reaction to an Obama nomination, and the fact that people on FREE REPUBLIC are STILL shilling for the most dangerous candidate our nation has ever faced. (Hillary!) I can't believe how many "conservatives" were hoodwinked into thinking she was/is better than Obama. Make no mistake about it, Obama is a liberal, but he is a liberal of the Jimmah Carter variety. (Bumbling and Inefficient) Hillary! is a liberal of the Adolf Hitler/Joseph Stalin variety.
When you couple the fact that Obama can't beat McCain with the above, you realize that Providence was with us when Obama elimated Hillary!
I just wish the Rushies would let it go and focus on beating Obama now rather than attempting to prop up a defeated Hitlery.
I concur, lol.
West Virginia and Kentucky must be full of bitter people.
west va is open, kentucky is closed
Hillary wishes, every state was like West Virginia.
The media will just write off Kentucky and West Virginia as a bunch of racist hillbillies, so irrelevant.
Watch and see.
“Has anyone actually driven from say, Virginia to West Virginia? It’s downright scary.”
I have. My wife’s from WV. Not sure what you find scary about winding mountain roads.
What’s scary is any major US city after dark.
Is that different from driving from West Virginia to Virginia?
Oh, I know, it’s because you can almost see the crime rate decreasing. Glad I figured that out.
Why would Hillary want every state to be like West Virginia?
George Bush would not have been president without the beautiful state of West Virginia.
You could put all of West Virginia’s people living in poverty in one itsy bitsy corner of just one slum area in any large well known USA city. Try your stereotypes on those areas, we don’t really have to lock our doors to be safe in our communities.
Let me clarify, WV is a naturally beautiful state, but the distinct difference you see in the poverty level as you cross the border from VA to WV is astounding. Imho, this economic disparity makes no sense.
Fauxbama has little to no support outside of 3 small groups:
Blacks 90%+
College Students
and Limosine Liberals
He has no chance of winning a general election the Super Delegates are ensuring stupifying defeat in Nov if they make this Marxist with no clothes their candidate.
“Imho, this economic disparity makes no sense.”
It’s a different state, no doubt. Many of those folks ahve lived on the same land for generations and generations.
Yeah, to visit my ancestor’s graves.
I dare anybody in the media to say it to their faces.
So *poverty* is why you think the “jokes” are justified?
Fascinating what some people find “funny”.
I think you are deliberately misunderstanding my post. But seriously, I don’t care what you think.
Remember that the folks there choose not to leave. Their livelihood is dependant on a couple of resources. More Xenophobic you could not be.
That's about as clear as clear gets.
Good thing you don't care what I think of you, though.
LOL. Guess what? I don’t care what you think either.
Pure genius.
Yet he/she cared enough to tell you that he/she doesn’t care.
Priceless......:)
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