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CBS/AP) Hillary Rodham Clinton has defeated Barack Obama in the West Virginia primary, CBS News projects. CBS News exit polling shows that Clinton could win the state by a sizable margin. West Virginia Results Obama conceded defeat in advance in the state as he looked ahead to the Oregon primary later in the month and the campaign against Republican John McCain. Clinton won with nearly every demographic group, according to exit polls, including men, women, young voters, older voters, people earning less than $50,000 a year and those earning more than that. (See more exit poll analysis.) Obama won the...

A former University of Wisconsin-Madison lecturer who taught that the U.S. government was behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is running for Congress. Kevin Barrett says he will officially announce his challenge to Democratic U.S. Rep. Ron Kind on Monday. Barrett says he will make the announcement before a Kind town hall meeting and then ask the congressman "some pointed questions." Barrett says he is running as a Libertarian and will be calling for an investigation into the terrorist attacks. He calls the official version of what happened a "load of hooey."Barrett is also urging voters to throw all Democrats...

Last week Typical White Person Sen. Hillary Clingin' made an appeal to the bitter nature of her base, the HillAryan Nation. She talked about "how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me. I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on. . . . There's a pattern emerging here. . . . " Yes, Your Thighness, you do have a much broader base, as your poor pantsuit will attest. And yes, there is a pattern emerging here:...

Hillary Clinton has cruised to a crushing win over Barack Obama in West Virginia's primary, but did little to shake her rival's stranglehold on the Democratic White House race.Television network projections handed victory to the former first lady as soon as the polls closed, highlighting African-American Obama's struggle to win over white, working class voters who play a key role in general election swing states."You will never quit, and I won't either," Clinton told cheering supporters at her victory rally here on Tuesday."There are some who have wanted to cut this race short," Clinton said."I am more determined than ever...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton coasted to a large, but largely symbolic victory in working-class West Virginia on Tuesday, handing Barack Obama one of his worst defeats of the campaign but scarcely slowing his march toward the Democratic presidential nomination. The Associated Press made its call based on surveys of voters as they left the polls. Obama looked ahead to the Oregon primary later in the month and the general election campaign against Republican John McCain, but the defeat underscored his weakness among blue collar voters who will be pivotal in the fall. "This is our chance to...

WEST VIRGINIA SEC OF STATE WEBSITE. THINGS TO WATCH: Will Hillary convince Supers to let her get back in the race? Will Hillary cry? Will Howard Dean say something insane? Will Rev. Sharpton use the can of gasoline and matches I sent him and threaten to burn down the place? Will Robert KKK Byrd have the klan out to vote for the white candidate? Will Bill say something stupid or incendiary to sabotage her again? Will dishes be flying? Will Bill have an incident with a female while his evil wife gives a victory speech? Will Obama wear a...

AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, with talent on loan from G-d, at the cutting-edge of societal evolution, with half his brain tied behind his back — just to make it fair, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling,...

CLEAR FORK, W.Va. - Hillary Rodham Clinton Monday compared her underdog quest for the White House to John F. Kennedy's 1960 campaign -- while her top strategist likened Barack Obama's sky-high confidence to George W. Bush's infamous "Mission Accomplished" declaration. A Suffolk University poll Monday showed the former first lady leading Barack Obama by 36 points ahead of Tuesday's West Virginia primary -- which would be her biggest victory margin of the campaign. But analysts say a win tonight is likely to do little to erode Obama's lead in delegates, or stem the steady trickle of undecided superdelegates to the...

Country roads, take me home To the place I belong West Virginia, mountain momma Take me home, country roads—"Take Me Home," John Denver Them thar Wellesley girls is so country. Kinda like good ol' "can I git me a huntin' license here" John Kerry, nothing makes Hillary Clinton feel more at comfortable than to find herself among country folks. Thus it was entirely natural, and not at all a cynical campaign ploy, for Hillary to slip into some country vernacular when addressing a Mountain State gathering. Check out the video, aired on this evening's Hardball, of Hillary addressing a West...

West Virginia Democratic Primary Polls Open: 6:30 am ET Polls Close: 7:30 pm ET Delegates at Stake: 28 Barack Obama is in a commanding position to win the Democratic presidential nod. But he is the underdog in Tuesday's West Virginia primary. The state's gun-owning, church-going, and economically struggling small towns are ripe targets for Hillary Clinton, who has tended to outperform Obama with these groups. The former first couple has also put in more time on the ground than Obama. Sen. Clinton has held 14 events and former President Clinton has held 15. By contrast, Sen. Obama has only held...

On Today’s Show... While Hillary skunks him in the WV primary -- thanks to Operation Chaos -- Obama will hole-up in Rush's hometown of Cape Girardeau, MO. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) » Wash. Times: Obama's First General Election Stop: Missouri, Limbaugh Country Pearl of Wisdom: "How is it, feminists, that the only man in this whole race who has stood up for Hillary's right to fight the good fight to the bitter end is me, Rush Limbaugh? Why has the liberal male establishment thrown her under the bus?" Tweak the media: Is Obama campaigning in all 57 Islamic...

AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, with talent on loan from G-d, at the cutting-edge of societal evolution, with half his brain tied behind his back — just to make it fair, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling,...

Hillary Clinton is expected to win by big margins, her campaign is renewing the argument that if she leads in the popular vote, she should be the Democratic nominee. "Hillary is within striking distance of winning the popular vote nationwide -- a key part of our plan to win the nomination," campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe said in a letter to supporters Sunday. "That means we need every last vote we can get in West Virginia on Tuesday and in the races to follow." West Virginia is also a key swing state. Bill Clinton won in 1992 and 1996, and George...

New polls Monday predicted landslide wins for Hillary Clinton in two looming primaries, despite pressure for her to cede to Barack Obama's mathematical stranglehold on the Democratic White House race. The former first lady, who is vowing to battle on even as Obama turns his sights on Republican presumptive nominee John McCain, led her foe by 36 points in the latest poll out of West Virginia, which votes Tuesday. In Kentucky, which holds its primary on May 20, Clinton was up 58 to 31 percent, in another poll suggesting Obama faces an uncomfortable two weeks. Huge wins for Clinton in...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Addressing criticism he expects this fall, Sen. Barack Obama emphasized his patriotism and support for a strong and humane military Monday, while Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton implored West Virginians to sustain her hopes of somehow denying him the Democratic presidential nomination. Obama expects Clinton to win Tuesday's primary in West Virginia, which has large numbers of working-class whites — a group that usually backs the former first lady — as well as a strong military tradition. He used his visit to Charleston to combat critics' claims that he is not particularly patriotic or ready to be commander...

(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...

He's campaigning in Charleston right now, and I can't help but notice he's wearing a flag pin on his lapel and has two huge American flags as his backdrop.

W Virginia keeps distance from Obama By Andrew Ward Published: May 11 2008 20:13 | Last updated: May 11 2008 20:13 Like most people in Mingo County, West Virginia, Leonard Simpson is a lifelong Democrat. But given a choice between Barack Obama and John McCain in November, the 67-year-old retired coalminer would vote Republican. “I heard that Obama is a Muslim and his wife’s an atheist,” said Mr Simpson, drawing on a cigarette outside the fire station in Williamson, a coalmining town of 3,400 people surrounded by lush wooded hillsides. EDITOR’S CHOICE Editorial comment: Obama profits not from Jeremiah -...

Democrats bristle at talking about this in plainer terms. They say Sen. Hillary Clinton has found her base -- the "working class." That's why she won in the Rust Belt primaries. That's her great hope in Kentucky and West Virginia. But calling Clinton's strategy one of kowtowing to the "working class" doesn't quite say it, does it? Isn't this just old-fashioned racism within the Democratic Party? When Hillary strategists say they are winning the "working class," they don't mean they are winning working people with a household income of, say, less than $50,000. All the exit polls show quite clearly...

Sen. Hillary Clinton's spokesman Howard Wolfson yesterday blasted Sen. Barack Obama for not spending much time in the Mountain State. I had a story in today's paper outlining the challenge West Virginia presents for Obama, who after picking up a bunch of superdelegates today, is now 156 away from securing the nomination under party rules. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's top aides yesterday accused Sen. Barack Obama of ignoring West Virginia, saying Democrats must win the state in the fall and using her 43-point poll lead there as evidence that her longshot bid deserves to run its course. "What is the...

As Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., avoids any real campaigning in West Virginia, the former president of the United States is out there ginning up resentments. Bill Clinton has the right to say whatever he wants, of course. But he's a smart man. Brilliant, even. He can do the math. He must know that it's quite improbable that his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., will be the Democratic presidential nominee. So what purpose does it serve for him to barnstorm a state like West Virginia and tell rural voters that Obama and his elitist political/media cabal allies are mocking Appalachia? He's...

The next state on the Democratic primary schedule is, of course, West Virginia, which has Tuesday all to its amoeba-shaped self. Why is it, then, that Barack Obama has yet to book a single stop in, say, Shepherdstown, Charleston, Philippi, Sutton, Fayetteville, Fairlea or Bluefield--all of which have already hosted either Bill or Hillary Clinton? Because he has no chance of winning--and no one seems to care. Appearing on ABC's Nightline back in November 2007, Obama slipped into Bob Dole mode for this slightly overconfident assessment of his electoral chances: "Every place is Barack Obama country once Barack Obama's been...

"MOOREFIELD, W.VA. -- In Hardy County, Democrats outnumber Republicans more than 2 to 1. But there is little enthusiasm for Barack Obama in this mountainside enclave, a portent of trouble for the Illinois senator in next week's West Virginia primary and the general election beyond."

WASHINGTON, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Despite a weakening position in the Democratic presidential nomination race, Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York is very popular among Democrats in West Virginia, the location of next primary, a survey showed on Friday. The poll by TSG consulting showed Clinton lead 63-23 percent over rival Sen. Barrack Obama of Illinois in West Virginia, said the Charleston Gazette, a West Virginia newspaper. The telephone poll of 300 Democratic and independent voters had an error margin of plus or minus 6 percent. TSG president Tom Susman said if that vote held true on May 13,the primary...

Even as she faces pressure from some to call her White House bid quits, Hillary Clinton holds a commanding lead in West Virginia, according to a new poll released Friday. Clinton has a 43-point advantage over Obama, 66 percent to 23 percent, according to a new survey from the American Research Group.

Kennedy: No soup or VP slot for you TRIBUNE-REVIEW By Salena Zito Apparently, Sen. Ted Kennedy does not think Sen. Hillary Clinton has "real" leadership qualities or "is in tune with his appeal for the nobler aspiration(s) of the American people."

Obama trolls House, but Altmire remains neutral TRIBUNE-REVIEW By Salena Zito Rep. Jason Altmire said his baseline for a decision to endorse Sen. Hillary Clinton over Sen. Barack Obama would be if Clinton managed to reach somewhere close to a delegate tie with him when the primaries were over. "She earned her right to continue the campaign when she won in Pennsylvania and won my district," he said. Altmire said even after her loss in North Carolina and slim win in Indiana, she still has that right. "It's a long shot, I understand that, but I still want to give...

WASHINGTON - Apart from George McGovern, a plainspoken man who knows something about losing elections, not a single Democrat of national stature publicly urged Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday to end her campaign for the White House. They didn't have to. There was no shortage of other ways to signal, suggest, insinuate or instigate the same thing. And certainly no need to apply unseemly pressure to a historic political figure, a woman who has run a grueling race, won millions of votes and drawn uncounted numbers of new Democratic voters to the polls. Instead, many Democrats preferred to say softly...

At West Virginia rally, Clinton vows to fight on By David Brown TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, May 8, 2008 CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Memo to those writing political obituaries for Hillary Clinton: She ain't done yet. Clinton sought to drive home that message to hundreds of cheering supporters at a rally here today, contending West Virginia will muzzle the pundits by giving her a resounding win on Tuesday over Barack Obama, whose victory Tuesday in North Carolina and strong showing in Indiana moved him closer to clinching the Democratic presidential nomination. "I know that according to the polls, I'm doing well here. But...

Barack Obama met with reporters Friday in Indianapolis and admitted the obvious: "We've had a rough couple of weeks. I won't deny that." The next couple of weeks will show just how rough. The roiling controversies -- over his remarks about rural voters and his ties to his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. -- have cast new doubts over the Illinois senator's ability to win over white working-class Democrats. Tuesday's two primaries will offer fresh data on his appeal. Sen. Obama is strongly favored in North Carolina, while Indiana is seen as a toss-up. If Hillary Clinton gets...

Sen. Robert C. Byrd had some advice Monday for Democratic presidential combatants Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton — stop the negative bickering and stick to the real issues. Byrd certainly knows his way around the political arena. It was back in 1946 that he won his first political post — a seat in the West Virginia House of Delegates — one year before Clinton was born and fully 15 years in advance of Obama’s birth. A super delegate to the Democratic National Convention, the senator hasn’t endorsed either hopeful but advised both to tone down the personal rhetoric and start...

Barack Obama threatens to drive political cartographers crazy. By attracting young people and African-Americans, he believes he can turn red states blue and upend our relatively stable political map. Obama may well win the November election on a wave of Democratic turnout and enthusiasm, but he will likely find that states don’t change their political stripes very easily. The 2000 and 2004 elections were remarkably similar. Forty-seven states voted for the same party in both elections. Only New Hampshire, which switched from Republican in 2000 to Democrat in 2004, and Iowa and New Mexico, which moved in the other direction,...

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — Bill Clinton had tough words for those who say his wife should drop out of the Democratic presidential race for party unity. "Let's saddle up and have an argument," he said as he campaigned for her in West Virginia. "What's the matter with that?" With Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona having essentially locked up the GOP nomination weeks ago, some Democrats have suggested that the continuing, and at times, negative primary fight between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama gives McCain a head start on the general election campaign. Bill Clinton dismissed such qualms as...

Maybe, just maybe, it’s now worth at least asking whether Hillary Clinton might wind up as the Democratic candidate for vice president. When the chatter about a Democratic “dream ticket” began last year, it was easy to dismiss. Either Clinton or Obama would win a clear victory in the primaries and, after what inevitably would be a contentious campaign, each would want as little to do with the other as possible. Clinton, if she emerged victorious, would instead choose some kind of national security graybeard to her political right, a retired general perhaps, or maybe even a Republican. Likewise, Obama...

Both John Edwards and Mitt Romney have informed the West Virginia Secretary of State's Office that they want to remain on the state's May 13th Primary Election ballots. Both candidates suspended their presidential campaigns earlier this year. Edwards, the former U.S. Senator from North Carolina, was running third to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in most Democratic Party primaries. Romney dropped out after his disappointing showing during Super Tuesday’s primaries and caucuses. The Secretary of State's Office contacted both campaigns and asked if they wanted off the state ballots and they said they did not. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor,...

Despite what the pundits, talking heads, and self-annoited experts say about the Republican race, it is more muddled and more up in the air than at any time since Iowa. Why? Because 60 percent of the Republican Party is against John McCain. And the more a dour Tim Russert or an arrogant Chris Mathews says that, “the Republican race is, for all intents and purposes, over,” or this one, “it is very hard to see how John McCain can be stopped,” the more agitated conservatives get. That translates to “we lefty pundits who dominate the TV airwaves want McCain so...

Supporters of John McCain and Mike Huckabee joined forces today to rob Mitt Romney of an early Super Tuesday victory in West Virginia, a clear sign of how two Republicans are conspiring to try and deny the former Massachusetts governor the nomination. ... A Romney spokesman accused the two of "cutting a backroom deal".

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: They're projecting that Huckabee has come from nowhere to win in West Virginia.  Now, originally get 50% there, and Ron Paul was out after the first vote, and it was Romney, Huckabee, and I think Romney had 30%, Huckabee at 16, and McCain -- so obviously -- well, I can't say obviously, I don't know, but it seems like the Huck forces got together with the McCain forces, and the McCain forces sent his forces to the Huck forces, and that's how they defeated Romney in West Virginia.  I don't know that, but I wouldn't be surprised....

The West Virginia Republican convention, the first contest of Super Tuesday, gets curiouser and curiouser. Ron Paul's campaign claimed late this afternoon that it had secured three of the 18 delegates through a deal with Mike Huckabee to help put him above the 50 percent threshold.

according to NBC....

Wild and wonderful win for Huckabee Posted February 5, 2008 2 :36 PM West Virginia, site of one of the 24 primaries and caucuses in today’s “Super Duper Tuesday” balloting, has given a victory to Republican Mike Huckabee.

In the first Super Tuesday result, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee won an upset victory at the West Virginia Republican presidential convention, scoring all 18 of the state's delegates. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who had worked hard to organize in the Mountaineer State, came in second. His campaign cried foul, saying the McCain campaign sent its delegates to Huckabee in order to undermine Romney. Huckabee and Romney both made appearances at the convention. Romney campaign manager Beth Myers said in a statement: "[T]his is what Senator McCain's inside Washington ways look like: he cut a backroom deal with the...

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s campaign accused Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee of “a backroom deal” that gave the early Super Tuesday win in West Virginia to Huckabee. Romney, who addressed the state GOP convention in person Tuesday, comfortably led the first ballot at the convention, leading to a three-way second ballot contest between the three contenders. Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic reported Tuesday that, after the first ballot, McCain’s campaign called his supporters there and urged them to vote in favor of Huckabee.

before Huckabee’s surprising turnaround in the second round, McCain delegates told FOX News they had been instructed by the campaign to throw their support to Huckabee. McCain delegate John Vuolo said former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer approached him and other McCain supporters at the convention and told them he had spoken to McCain, and that the best thing to do was to support Huckabee in the hope that Huckabee could beat Romney in this winner-take-all state. That account could add fuel to Romney’s claim that Huckabee is only undercutting his support base, and that a vote for Huckabee is a...

Almost heaven ... West Virginia ... Mike Huckabee took the West Virginia state convention and the state's 18 delegates as John McCain's team threw him their support to defeat Mitt Romney. The state allocates delegates on a winner-take-all basis, and the late action by McCain's delegates keeps Romney from winning any of them. It closes out one of the states in which Romney could use to keep pace, but the move has some Republicans seeing a different kind of red: Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee won 18 delegates here Tuesday as backers of rival John McCain threw him their support...

Huckabee came in second to Mitt Romney in the first round of voting, finishing with 33% to Romney's 41%, the AP reported earlier. John McCain, finishing third with 15%, survived to the second round, while Ron Paul finished fourth, at 10%, and was eliminated. Amid rumors of a deal between backers of Huckabee and McCain, Huckabee secured 52% of the delegates in the second round, to Romney's 47%. McCain's goal in throwing support to Huckabee is designed to deprive Romney of a win early in the day.

What happened in West Virginia is a demonstrable example of why winner takes all balloting doesn't work. Mitt won the most votes in the first round so McCain told his people to switch their votes to Huck in the second to deny Romney any national delegates that he might have deserved. What we have is McCain and Huckanee conspiring to thwart the will of the people. I didn't say it was illegal or even unethical (in politics), but it sure does suck. For what it's worth, I don't like winner take all in national elections either. Federalists will say it...

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee enjoys the first victory on Super Tuesday for the Republicans as he takes all 18 delegates in the state of West Virginia, winning 52% of the vote, although rumors abound regarding the McCain campaign's possible instruction to their delegates to switch to his side. Mitt Romney finished second with 47% of the vote, followed by McCain at 1%. Rumors are circulating that the McCain campaign instructed their delegates to defect over to Mike Huckabee's side as to avoid a Romney victory. Nationally, McCain is significantly ahead of Huckabee and can afford giving the state's 18...