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Federal Prisoner Gives Obama A Run For His Money In West Virginia, May Earn Delegates At Convention
http://www.mediaite.com/online/federal-prisoner-gives-obama-a-run-for-his-money-in-west-virginia-may-earn-delegates-at-convention/ ^
Posted on May 8, 2012 9:45:31 PM EDT by dewawi
Meet Keith Judd — or as some call him, “Inmate No. 11593-051.” He is serving a 210-month sentence at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas for making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999. Despite that bothersome obstacle, he qualified for the West Virginia Democratic primary ballot and is currently giving President Obama a run for his money, racking up 37% of the vote.
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i hope anyone who laughs about this will never again complain when the dems run a fake candidate just to hurt a republican running for office.
who was that half-wit greene that ran? remember? he was like 60 IQ and they paid for him to run (10k). He was clueless.
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i hope anyone who laughs about this will never again complain when the dems run a fake candidate just to hurt a republican running for office.
who was that half-wit greene that ran? remember? he was like 60 IQ and they paid for him to run (10k). He was clueless.
obama would have a hard time against madoff at this rate.
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The inmate, Keith Judd, is serving time at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas for making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999. With 83 percent of precincts reporting, Obama was receiving 60 percent of the vote to Judd's 40 percent.
For some West Virginia Democrats, simply running against Obama is enough to get Judd votes.
"I voted against Obama," said Ronnie Brown, a 43-year-old electrician from Cross Lanes who called himself a conservative Democrat. "I don't like him. He didn't carry the state before and I'm not going to let him carry it again."
When asked which presidential candidate he voted for, Brown said, "That guy out of Texas."
Judd was able to get on the state ballot by paying a $2,500 fee and filing a form known as a notarized certification of announcement, said Jake Glance, a spokesman for the Secretary of State's office.
Attracting at least 15 percent of the vote would normally qualify a candidate for a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. But state Democratic Party Executive Director Derek Scarbro said no one has filed to be a delegate for Judd. The state party also believes that Judd has failed to file paperwork required of presidential candidates, but officials continue to research the matter, Scarbro said.
Voters in other conservative states showed their displeasure with Obama in Democratic primaries last March.
In Oklahoma, anti-abortion protestor Randall Terry got 18 percent of the primary vote. A lawyer from Tennessee, John Wolfe, pulled nearly 18,000 votes in the Louisiana primary. In Alabama, 18 percent of Democratic voters chose "uncommitted" in the primary rather than vote for Obama.
Obama's energy policies and the Environmental Protection Agency's handling of mining-related permits have incurred the wrath of West Virginia's coal industry. With the state the nation's second-biggest producer of this fossil fuel, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and Sen. Joe Manchin _both Democrats have championed the industry – have declined to say whether they will support Obama in November.
Hillary Rodham Clinton beat Obama handily in the state's 2008 primary, and he lost the state to Republican John McCain in the general election. Polls show some of his worst approval ratings in West Virginia.
Brown, the Cross Lanes electrician, went to the polls Tuesday with his 22-year-old daughter, Emily. She planned to vote for Judd too until she found out where Judd has been living.
"I'm not voting for somebody who's in prison," she said.
She was certain about one thing: "I just want to vote against Barack Obama."
Obama is done.
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Lol. Obama is so done. Lanslide and tsunami on the way.
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2012/by_state/WV_President_0508.html?SITE=CSPANELN&SECTION=POLITICS
Lol. Obama is so done. Lanslide and tsunami on the way.
You are a complete moron....West Virginia is the most backwoods state in the entire South and it means shit in the election
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You are a complete moron....West Virginia is the most backwoods state in the entire South and it means shit in the election
And NC just voted 60-40 against gay marriage. No way NC goes for obama this time. Vince you, like the other cult followers like 180, andre, etc simply have no clue just how much obama is hated.
You didnt see it in 2009 when corzine lost, same for brown v coakley, same for mid terms, etc.
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:D
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And NC just voted 60-40 against gay marriage. No way NC goes for obama this time. Vince you, like the other cult followers like 180, andre, etc simply have no clue just how much obama is hated.
You didnt see it in 2009 when corzine lost, same for brown v coakley, same for mid terms, etc.
Actually I'm glad the Amendment passed. Read my post on the other thread. ;D
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Felon beats Obama in several West Virginia counties
Politico ^ | May 8, 2012 | Byron Tau
A Texas felon gave President Obama a run for his money in the West Virginia Democratic primary, beating Obama in several counties and winning enough of the vote to be eligible for at least one delegate at the convention, according to the Associated Press.
Perennial candidate Keith Russell Judd, currently serving 210 months in a federal prison, is currently pulling down roughly 40 percent of the vote to Obama's 60 percent.
Judd has caused problems in other elections as well. In 2008, Idaho Democrats were peeved Judd qualified for the ballot, with one Democratic official calling him a "yahoo prisoner in Texas."
It's not the first time that Democratic primary voters have sent a message of disapproval to Obama — the president lost 15 Oklahoma counties to anti-abortion activist Randall Terry in the March primary.
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repubs should be embarassed by this.
fcking amateur hour here. put a TX felon on the ballot and make the tea party look worse :(
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Obama is so hated right now I really don't think the results would differ all that much in any state. If its a choice of a criminal serving time for his crimes vs a criminal seeking re-election - i'll go with the convict since he can do less harm to me locked away than Obama can with the checkbook and executive orders.
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it was an open primary state. FOX radio made a point to encourage everyone to vote for the felon.
plus hiary won 55 of 55 counties there in 2008. This was the group that went on CNN and bragged about how skin color was the reason they voted as they did.
Obama was never going to win WV in 2012. They are decidedly anti-toothbrush.
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Bad day for Obama, unions in NC, WV, and especially WI
Hotair ^ | 05/09/2012 | Ed Morrissey
Posted on Wednesday, May 09, 2012 9:29:04 AM by SeekAndFind
Looks like Tuesday was a bad day for Barack Obama, Democrats in general, and particularly the unions. Three states held primaries, and in each, voters rejected positions and/or candidates associated with all three, in embarrassing vote totals. Let’s start with the least significant of these outcomes, the Democratic presidential primary in West Virginia, where an inmate in federal prison ran a novelty primary challenge to Barack Obama — and came within 20 points of winning (via Polipundit):
An obscure federal prison inmate gave President Obama an unexpected run for his money in the West Virginia Democratic Primary Tuesday, highlighting the deep dislike for the president in the Appalachian heartland.
With 96% of the precincts reporting Tuesday night, Keith Judd was holding steady at 41% of the vote and had won ten counties.
Judd is also known as federal prison inmate Number 11593-051 at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Beaumont, Texas, where Judd is serving a 210-month sentence for extortion and making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999.
The best part of this story? Thanks to the size of the popular vote for Judd, he’s entitled to at least one delegate at the Democratic National Convention. I’d bet that the DNC will rule that Judd’s ineligibility as a convict will allow them to strip him of whatever delegates he does win, but it’s going to be a little embarrassing nonetheless.
Still, Obama has absolutely no chance of winning West Virginia in a national election anyway, so that’s more sideshow than significant. However, Team Obama needs to carry North Carolina again this year after their narrow 0.3% win in 2008. Obama ran unopposed in the primary in North Carolina, but that doesn’t mean he won all of the votes. In fact, Obama couldn’t reach 80% in the Democratic primary, which featured competitive Congressional primary contests on the ballot. Obama won only 79.2% of the vote, with slightly more than a fifth of all Democratic voters (20.8%) expressing “no preference.” That totals over 140,000 Democrat votes that didn’t go to Obama in an unopposed primary — and Obama only won North Carolina by 14,000 votes in 2008. The Tarheel State’s beginning to look like a lost cause.
Speaking of lost causes, the traditional marriage amendment that Obama publicly opposed in North Carolina passed by a wide margin:
North Carolina has become the 31st state to add an amendment on marriage to its constitution, with voters banning same-sex marriage and barring legal recognition of unmarried couples by state and local governments.
North Carolina is the last state in the south to add such an amendment, and supporters hoped for a resounding victory.
Incomplete returns show the amendment up 59.72 percent to 40.28 percent. Some large counties, including Durham and Mecklenburg have not reported results.
The final results were even more dramatic, 61.05% to 38.95%. That represents a strong rejection of Obama’s position, and a demonstration of why the Tarheel State may already be lost to Obama.
By far the worst news for the Left came in Wisconsin, where primaries were held for the recall elections next month. Tom Barrett won a contentious fight against Kathleen Falk, the candidate of Big Labor who got a ton of union help for her campaign but lost badly by 24 points, 58/34. The real story, though, was Scott Walker, who got more votes than both combined despite facing only token opposition in the Republican primary:
As Barrett was campaigning Tuesday, Walker was barnstorming the state and showing the fight he will bring to what is expected to be a brutal month of canvassing for one of the most important elections to state office in Wisconsin history. A poll last week showed Walker and Barrett in a dead heat.
Walker, who won over 600,000 votes despite facing only token opposition Tuesday, has been preparing for months for the fast-approaching election, raising a record $25 million, while Barrett must now pivot toward this race with far fewer resources.
There was little reason for Republicans to turn out for this primary, as their incumbents are all trying to hold their offices. Walker’s opponent got less than 20,000 votes, while Walker rang up over 626,000. Contrast that the two Democrats, who combined for 619,049 votes, seven thousand less than Walker, in a primary election where unions tried to stoke turnout to boost Falk. Republicans in Wisconsin appear fired up and ready to turn out in June, and presumably in November, to protect their state against Big Labor’s efforts to undo the 2010 elections and take control of the state. That’s not good news for Obama, either, since Obama won Wisconsin in 2008 and needs the state in 2012.
All of that makes for a very bad night indeed for Democrats, and a pretty good indicator which way the wind is blowing before the general election.
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LANDSLIDE AND TSUNAMI COMING
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i hope anyone who laughs about this will never again complain when the dems run a fake candidate just to hurt a republican running for office.
who was that half-wit greene that ran? remember? he was like 60 IQ and they paid for him to run (10k). He was clueless.
The GOP didn't pay for Al Greene to run... he ran of his own account. It just proves how retarded most Democrats are.
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The GOP didn't pay for Al Greene to run... he ran of his own account. It just proves how retarded most Democrats are.
240 is just trying to polish a turd.
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The GOP didn't pay for Al Greene to run... he ran of his own account. It just proves how retarded most Democrats are.
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh I recall him being unable to explain how he went from an inch over destitute to showing up with a 10 grand cashiers check lol
If you believe he just woke up and decided to run, okay. But most people on both sides of the aisle agree he was a plant. Who planted him, we don't know.
But he had no details on any of his campaigning, he had no recollection of some of the things that had to be done, which were done, which he didn't do.
SO youre right - we don't konw it was a GOP plant.
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Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh I recall him being unable to explain how he went from an inch over destitute to showing up with a 10 grand cashiers check lol
If you believe he just woke up and decided to run, okay. But most people on both sides of the aisle agree he was a plant. Who planted him, we don't know.
But he had no details on any of his campaigning, he had no recollection of some of the things that had to be done, which were done, which he didn't do.
SO youre right - we don't konw it was a GOP plant.
240 - do you think the results would be different in any other state?
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Congratulations to Mr. Judd. Ironically, he has as much experience as Obama did when he ran for potus in 2008.
Judd '12!
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It is kinda retarded to suggest this means anything. It is WV.
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It is kinda retarded to suggest this means anything. It is WV.
So what you're saying is that the people of WV are smarter than most Americans? Wouldn't surprise me.
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It is kinda retarded to suggest this means anything. It is WV.
LOL!!!!!
You guys have no idea how bad november is going to be for the democrats.
2010 was a warm up and the best part is that the libs wont even see it coming. .
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LOL!!!!!
You guys have no idea how bad november is going to be for the democrats.
2010 was a warm up and the best part is that the libs wont even see it coming. .
I don't give a flying fuck how bad it's going to be. I'm done giving a shit about the dems. They can rot. I'm just saying that using this as a guage for the country is fucking retarded. It's WV dude.
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LOL!!!!!
You guys have no idea how bad november is going to be for the democrats.
2010 was a warm up and the best part is that the libs wont even see it coming. .
Despite the fact that I'm committed to voting third party this November, I hope you're right. But for some reason I believe that America is stupid enough to vote for Obama again.
As HL Mencken once wrote, "democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
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I don't give a flying fuck how bad it's going to be. I'm done giving a shit about the dems. They can rot. I'm just saying that using this as a guage for the country is fucking retarded. It's WV dude.
Would have been little difference anywhere else in this country.
You don't get it - OBAMA IS HATED WORSE THEN FELONS.
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Despite the fact that I'm committed to voting third party this November, I hope you're right. But for some reason I believe that America is stupid enough to vote for Obama again.
As HL Mencken once wrote, "democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
Obama was a Fluke (pun intended) in 2008. The stars were aligned perfectly for him. Bad challenger, no record, bush fatigue, market meltdown, youth vote, msm kneepadding etc.
He has none of that now and Romney is a far better challenger than McLame was.
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Despite the fact that I'm committed to voting third party this November, I hope you're right. But for some reason I believe that America is stupid enough to vote for Obama again.
As HL Mencken once wrote, "democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
I'll do 3rd party too. No way I want to vote for either Romney or Obama.
And 3333, it is retarded to use WV as an indicator for the country. You can spew off that felons would do the same vs Obama in all other states. If you don't think that's crazy, don't let me stop you... go on looking crazy lol...
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I'll do 3rd party too. No way I want to vote for either Romney or Obama.
And 3333, it is retarded to use WV as an indicator for the country. You can spew off that felons would do the same vs Obama in all other states. If you don't think that's crazy, don't let me stop you... go on looking crazy lol...
Why not ???
I would vote for a convict in a heartbeat over obama, one is doing time for his crimes, the other criminal is running for re-election promising to commit more crimes.
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Against Obama, even a jailbird gets some votes
By LAWRENCE MESSINA, Associated Press – 2 hours ago
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Just how unpopular is President Barack Obama in some parts of the country? Enough that a man in prison in Texas got 4 out of 10 votes in West Virginia's Democratic presidential primary.
The inmate, Keith Judd, is serving time at the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana, Texas, for making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999. Obama received 59 percent of the vote to Judd's 41 percent.
For some West Virginia Democrats, simply running against Obama is enough to get Judd votes.
"I voted against Obama," said Ronnie Brown, a 43-year-old electrician from Cross Lanes who called himself a conservative Democrat. "I don't like him. He didn't carry the state before and I'm not going to let him carry it again."
When asked which presidential candidate he voted for, Brown said, "That guy out of Texas."
Judd got on the state ballot by paying a $2,500 fee and filing a form known as a notarized certification of announcement, said Jake Glance, a spokesman for the Secretary of State's office.
Attracting at least 15 percent of the vote would normally qualify a candidate for a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. But state Democratic Party Executive Director Derek Scarbro said no one has filed to be a delegate for Judd. The state party also believes that Judd has failed to file paperwork required of presidential candidates, but officials continue to research the matter, Scarbro said.
Voters in other conservative states showed their displeasure with Obama in Democratic primaries last March.
In Oklahoma, anti-abortion protester Randall Terry got 18 percent of the primary vote. A lawyer from Tennessee, John Wolfe, pulled nearly 18,000 votes in the Louisiana primary. In Alabama, 18 percent of Democratic voters chose "uncommitted" in the primary rather than vote for Obama.
Obama's energy policies and the Environmental Protection Agency's handling of mining-related permits have incurred the wrath of West Virginia's coal industry. With the state the nation's second-biggest producer of this fossil fuel, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and Sen. Joe Manchin —both Democrats have championed the industry — have declined to say whether they will support Obama in November.
Hillary Rodham Clinton beat Obama handily in the state's 2008 primary, and he lost the state to Republican John McCain in the general election. The latest state-by-state Gallup poll, released in January, found Obama with a 32.7 percent approval rating in West Virginia. The president had a lower approval rating only in Utah, Idaho, Oklahoma and Wyoming.
"Keith Judd's performance is embarrassing for Obama and our great state," outgoing West Virginia GOP Chairman Mike Stuart said.
Presumed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney won West Virginia's GOP primary Tuesday with more than 69 percent of the vote, with 93 percent of precincts reporting. Rick Santorum followed with 12 percent, while Ron Paul had 11 percent.
Brown, the Cross Lanes electrician, went to the polls with his 22-year-old daughter, Emily. She planned to vote for Judd, too, until she found out where he has been living.
"I'm not voting for somebody who's in prison," she said.
She was certain about one thing: "I just want to vote against Barack Obama."
Associated Press writer John Raby contributed to this report.
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LOL!!!!!
You guys have no idea how bad november is going to be for the democrats.
2010 was a warm up and the best part is that the libs wont even see it coming. .
Would you like to make some predictions and place a bet on the outcome?
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Would you like to make some predictions and place a bet on the outcome?
mittens wins 51 to obama 45 in reversal from 2008 - myth wins NC, VA, FL, OH, NH, Indiana, and a few others mclame lost.
GOP takes over the senate
GOP gains a few in the house.
Walker keeps gov seats.
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And NC just voted 60-40 against gay marriage. No way NC goes for obama this time. Vince you, like the other cult followers like 180, andre, etc simply have no clue just how much obama is hated.
You didnt see it in 2009 when corzine lost, same for brown v coakley, same for mid terms, etc.
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That was in a Republican Primary election.
Of course all of the Republicans came out and were against it.
Did you even look at the map?
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That was in a Republican Primary election.
Of course all of the Republicans came out and were against it.
Did you even look at the map?
20% of the NC Democrats voted "other" vs. Obama. He only won NC by a few votes last time. no way in hell he wins NC this time.
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20% of the NC Democrats voted "other" vs. Obama. He only won NC by a few votes last time. no way in hell he wins NC this time.
That's fine, but don't bring up the gay marriage issue... It's just bullshit in this instance.
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240 - do you think the results would be different in any other state?
are you really asking that question?
you think he'd score only 60% in Illinois or Cali Dem primary? he's scoring much higher everywhere else, so that should annswer your Q.
You don't think the fact hilary won 55 of 55.... the fact many of the people in WV aren't shy about racism... the open primary?
the FUCKING FACT DEMS DONT WIN tHERE? I'm a little baffled you even asked this Q lol, to be honest.
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are you really asking that question?
you think he'd score only 60% in Illinois or Cali Dem primary? he's scoring much higher everywhere else, so that should annswer your Q.
You don't think the fact hilary won 55 of 55.... the fact many of the people in WV aren't shy about racism... the open primary?
the FUCKING FACT DEMS DONT WIN tHERE? I'm a little baffled you even asked this Q lol, to be honest.
From people i know, other than a few facebook kooks, obama is despised and hated worse than the plague.
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Why not ???
I would vote for a convict in a heartbeat over obama, one is doing time for his crimes, the other criminal is running for re-election promising to commit more crimes.
You should be happy with me not voting for Obama. Shut up and take that lol... I bet a lot of people who voted for Obama are just not going to vote or vote third party this time. I don't want to pick between which turd stinks less this time.
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That was in a Republican Primary election.
Of course all of the Republicans came out and were against it.
Did you even look at the map?
So you're saying that only towns where colleges are located aren't ignorant? If anything that just shows how liberal "academia" is (even taking into account the joke status of 3/4 of those schools).
For what it's worth, I've supported gay marriage for longer than I can remember (mostly because it's insignificant to me) but it's comical acting like those locations are intellectually superior because they support it.
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Eight West Virginia Counties Vote for Federal Inmate Over Obama in Dem Primary
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | May 9, 2012 | Rush Limbaugh
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RUSH: Democrats did turn out, however. Well, they didn't turn out in Wisconsin. They didn't turn out in North Carolina. But guess where they did turn out?
Democrats turned out big time in West Virginia in the presidential primary to vote for an inmate. A federal prisoner, the Boyd Crowder of West Virginia. Federal Inmate 11593-051. There's a picture of the guy. Let me see if it's still up. Let me check real quick. Yep, there's a picture of the guy on Drudge, a picture of Inmate 11593-051. This is the guy that gave Obama a run for his money in West Virginia. Now, ask yourself this, folks. Why would Democrats in West Virginia vote for a federal inmate as opposed to a president, a sitting president in their own party?
Maybe it is something very simple, very common sense, and very explainable. Maybe it's that the people of West Virginia realize that Barack Obama poses the biggest threat to their livelihood of anybody on the ballot this time around. With his attacks on the coal industry, with his attacks on the oil industry, with his attacks on natural gas, with his attacks on conventional energy, with his promotion of green energy shutting down all these jobs that exist in West Virginia.
And even now the media (as we're doing, too, I will admit) is looking at the results yesterday: "What will be the effect on Obama?" How about this? Could we once look at what the effect be on the country will be? Because that's what the people voting on voting on. Yes, it's Obama that's getting them out. There wasn't a single, singular Republican leader on a ballot yesterday. You had Mourdock in Indiana and Scott Walker attracting votes, but there wasn't a presidential candidate on the ballot yesterday.
There were ideas. Ideas were on ballots yesterday. Ideas are what triumphed. And it was conservative ideas that skunked socialist utopianism yesterday. So the Democrats don't turn out in North Carolina. They don't turn out in Wisconsin. But they do turn out in the Democrat primary in West Virginia. And in eight maybe more counties, they beat Obama with a federal inmate. If I didn't know better, I would say there is a War on Obama being waged by the Democrats!
It certainly looks that way to me. It looks to me like Democrats in West Virginia want jobs. It would appear to me that Democrats in West Virginia want lower gasoline prices. They want higher home values. They want more disposable income. They don't want people telling them what kind of light bulb they have to buy! They don't want a bunch of nameless bureaucrats running around talking about "crucifying" energy executives. But you see, the Democrats in West Virginia figured out their president put a moratorium on drilling for oil in the Gulf and refused to okay the Keystone pipeline.
Obama: My Plan Makes Electricity Rates Skyrocket
He spent a trillion dollars on nonexistent "shovel-ready jobs." He ran up $5 trillion in new debt in 3-1/2 years, yet Americans are fleeing the job market due to utter frustration. There is no improvement in the job market. There's no economic growth. There's no reason to reelect the guy, and Democrats in at least eight counties in West Virginia said, "We'd rather have an inmate from a federal prison than Barack Obama." Now, they don't really mean that, but it's a protest vote.
Oh! And there's the Occupy Wall Street riots.
Yeah, these are things that are supposed to coalesce the vote for Obama. That's what the media tells us. It's another reason all these people, from whatever party, showed up and voted the way they did yesterday. I firmly believe this. I think an incalculable number of Americans, a vast majority, are also voting against the media. I think they've had it. I think they've had it with the obvious lies -- not just bias, but the insults to their intelligence -- with the daily reporting of Obama and the economy as though this is just normal standard fare.
Democrats running it for four years, then Republicans.
No! People realize we've not had to deal with things like this before. This is not how things happen in this country. It's no wonder the Democrats are the ones that are so angry, is it? It's interesting and amazing to watch.
END TRANSCRIPT
LOL
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So you're saying that only towns where colleges are located aren't ignorant? If anything that just shows how liberal "academia" is (even taking into account the joke status of 3/4 of those schools).
For what it's worth, I've supported gay marriage for longer than I can remember (mostly because it's insignificant to me) but it's comical acting like those locations are intellectually superior because they support it.
Not at all.
I believe it shows that intellectually superior areas support Gay Marriage... Not that they are superior FOR supporting it.
I don't think it's "just" that academia is liberal... I believe that it's also about how the younger generations do not think gay marriage is an issue... There just happens to be a much more concentrated group of young people in those areas.
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Not at all.
I believe it shows that intellectually superior areas support Gay Marriage... Not that they are superior FOR supporting it.
I don't think it's "just" that academia is liberal... I believe that it's also about how the younger generations do not think gay marriage is an issue... There just happens to be a much more concentrated group of young people in those areas.
That I agree with. However, that's only changed recently. I remember being the only one who supported it in some civics class I took senior year of high school and that was 7 years ago. And that was in liberal stronghold CT. Public opinion has changed pretty quickly on the topic.
Why would young people worry about gay marriage when they're too busy worrying about a lack of jobs and $16 trillion in debt. :o
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That I agree with. However, that's only changed recently. I remember being the only one who supported it in some civics class I took senior year of high school and that was 7 years ago. And that was in liberal stronghold CT. Public opinion has changed pretty quickly on the topic.
Why would young people worry about gay marriage when they're too busy worrying about a lack of jobs and $16 trillion in debt. :o
I agree completely.
I think that's a valid question to ask the the people who vote for banning it as well.
On what day is gay marriage such an important topic that it needs an amendment to the constitution of the state?
The last time a marriage amendment was place in NC, was when interracial marriage was banned in the 1870s.
Seems like this is on NO level something that should even be an issue.
Much bigger issues right now... Again, I don't even think it should be in this thread and it's not a big deal.
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This is hilarious. ;D
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This is hilarious. ;D
I have telling you guys - obama is loathed by most people.
And voting for a convict makes a lot more sense than voting for obama since a federal convict can do less damage to the nation than obama is and promises to do.
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mittens wins 51 to obama 45 in reversal from 2008 - myth wins NC, VA, FL, OH, NH, Indiana, and a few others mclame lost.
GOP takes over the senate
GOP gains a few in the house.
Walker keeps gov seats.
I bet Obama is re-elected, GOP Loses seats in the house.... as they got in in 2010 and did absolutley shit.
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I bet Obama is re-elected, GOP Loses seats in the house.... as they got in in 2010 and did absolutley shit.
LOL!!!!!!
ever hear of the generic ballot? 2010 was the warm up - 2012 is the super bowl to oust the obamunist.
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I have telling you guys - obama is loathed by most people.
And voting for a convict makes a lot more sense than voting for obama since a federal convict can do less damage to the nation than obama is and promises to do.
Most people? I doubt that. He still has a pretty strong following.
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Most people? I doubt that. He still has a pretty strong following.
You and i live in the heart of the beast. Go outside NYC, Hawaii, LA and obama is hated.
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You and i live in the heart of the beast. Go outside NYC, Hawaii, LA and obama is hated.
Not just talking about Hawaii. I've been all over the country and beyond. Was in Florida a few weeks ago and talked to some Obama-bots. They're everywhere. He couldn't be hated by most people and still poll at around 45-47 percent. That's a pretty big number.
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How the felon won
By CHARLES MAHTESIAN |
5/9/12 12:04 PM EDT
AP photo
So how did a felon incarcerated in a Texas prison manage to win 41 percent of the Democratic primary vote against the president of the United States?
For starters, Keith Judd was either clever or lucky enough to have filed for the ballot in the heart of Appalachia’s anti-Obama belt.
West Virginia's county-by-county numbers tell an interesting story: Judd defeated the incumbent president in 9 counties across the state, and held him under 60 percent in 30 of West Virginia’s 55 counties.
(Also on POLITICO: 10 facts about Keith Judd)
Whatever other forces may be at work in the Appalachian opposition to Obama -- the role of race has been debated since his 2008 run -- it's clear the administration's energy policies played a big role in the president's lackluster performance.
Locally, it's referred to as "the war on coal."
Looking at the map, Judd's strongest support came from southern West Virginia’s coal country, close by the Kentucky border.
The five coal counties that voted against Obama Tuesday also voted for Hillary Clinton by landslide margins in the 2008 primary.
That cluster includes the place that might be described as the epicenter of the Obama resistance: Mingo County.
Known as “Bloody Mingo” for its storied history of labor unrest and bloodshed surrounding the coal mining industry – the acclaimed John Sayles movie “Matewan” was based on events there in 1920 – the county disliked Obama even before he was elected president.
Clinton defeated him in there 88 percent to 8 percent, one of Obama’s worst primary drubbings in the nation in 2008. This time around, Mingo delivered what is certainly the president’s worst county-level defeat in 2012 – the inmate defeated the incumbent 60 percent to 40 percent.
It's worth noting that another place with a coal mining heritage lashed out at Obama earlier this year -- Oklahoma's aptly-named Coal County, where the president actually finished in 3rd place, behind perennial candidate Jim Rogers and anti-abortion activist Randall Terry.
CLARIFICATION: Magoffin County, Kentucky -- also in Appalachia -- delivered an even worse result for Obama in 2008 than Mingo. Clinton defeated Obama there 93 percent to 5 percent. This item was updated at 2:31 PM.
FUBO ! ! ! ! ! ! you rotten piece of of trash!
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Not just talking about Hawaii. I've been all over the country and beyond. Was in Florida a few weeks ago and talked to some Obama-bots. They're everywhere. He couldn't be hated by most people and still poll at around 45-47 percent. That's a pretty big number.
33 has already decided obama will lose by 80 points. Obama will carry 6 states.
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I think 33 is right about Obama losing. Who cares about the margin?
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I think 33 is right about Obama losing. Who cares about the margin?
I don't think so because Romney is not going to fair well in the South. Even with everything said and done, I don't see Obama losing the election because the economy is not as bad as it was 4 years ago....its not great but a died up turd is better than a steaming pile of shit.
Ultimately, the Electoral College is going to kill Romney unless he makes up some serious ground in places like New Jersey, Ohio, Florida, and North Carolina.
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Voters Say We Are All Inmate No. 11593-051 Now
IBD Editorials ^ | May 10, 2012
Tuesday's Results: The Tea Party shows it's alive and well, Wisconsin's embattled governor gets more votes than the top two Democrats and a federal inmate gives the president a primary battle. The natives are still restless.
Conservative pundit and IBD contributor Ann Coulter once said she, like many Americans, would rather vote for Jeffrey Dahmer, known for his unusual culinary choices, over President Obama. Federal prisoner Keith Russell Judd, 49, is not quite in Dahmer's league, but for a substantial portion of West Virginia Democrats, he is also preferable to our campaigner-in-chief.
Judd is serving time at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas, for extortion and making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999. He got on the West Virginia state ballot by paying a $2,500 fee and filing a form.
Democratic alibis for Obama's embarrassment have begun to sprout, including the expected one that Judd's vote consisted of bitter townsfolk clinging to their Bibles and guns, and fearful of others not like them. His defenders can't accept the fact that the president's policies and abysmal economic record, which include his war on West Virginia's coal industry, had anything to do with it.
Obama's energy policies and the Environmental Protection Agency's handling of mining-related permits have angered West Virginia's coal industry. With the state being the nation's second-largest producer of this fossil fuel, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and Sen. Joe Manchin — both Democrats who have championed the industry — have declined to say if they'll support President Obama in November.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
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Obama loses more than 40 percent of Kentucky primary voters to ‘uncommitted’ option
The Washington Post ^ | 05/22/12 | Aaron Blake
Posted on May 22, 2012 10:02:56 PM EDT by TonyInOhio
President Obama lost more than 40 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s Kentucky Democratic primary to the “uncommitted” option — the latest example of the incumbent president failing to win votes in an uncompetitive primary.
With 99 percent of precincts reporting in the Bluegrass State, Obama led “uncommitted” just 58 percent to 42 percent. Obama trailed in more than 60 Kentucky counties.
It was just the latest episode of the president taking less than 60 percent of the vote in a primary this year.
He ceded 41 percent of the vote in West Virginia to an incarcerated man in Texas named Keith Judd, and in Oklahoma, Obama lost several counties and won just 57 percent of the vote.
Kentucky’s vote was notable, though, for the fact that there weren’t even any other candidates on the ballot. The most the “uncommitted” option won so far this primary season was previously 21 percent in the North Carolina primary earlier this month. Kentucky looks as though it will double that number.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
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http://arkansasmatters.com/electionresults
Lol. Obama getting only 60 percent in the demo primary in AK.
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THE BLOG
Obama Campaign Spending Money, Resources in Arkansas
5:00 PM, MAY 22, 2012 • BY MICHAEL WARRENSingle PagePrintLarger TextSmaller TextAlerts
If Barack Obama experiences an upset in Arkansas’s Democratic primary today, it won’t be for lack of trying. The Obama campaign and the Democratic party have spent significant resources in Arkansas, while an unknown primary challenger has threatened the president's ability to win the support of the state's Democrats.
In March, the Obama camp opened an office in North Little Rock, which earned a visit from national campaign manager Jim Messina. During the opening, Messina reminded the small gathering of Obama’s 2004 Democratic National Convention speech.
“Remember that speech? When he said there’s not a red America, there’s not a blue America, there’s a United States of America,” Messina said. “That’s the kind of campaign we’re running here. It is why we’re in Arkansas, Montana, Oregon, and every state in this country, because we’re running a campaign that is based on the grassroots."
Messina continued: “So I came all the way [from] Chicago to say one thing and one thing only: Thank you. Thank you for what you’re doing, thank you for what you’re going to do, and thank you for spending every single night in this office helping elect Barack Obama.”
Candace Martin, the communications director for the Arkansas Democratic party, says the Obama campaign has been working in the state. “A lot of their efforts have focused on fundraising and voter registration,” Martin says.
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Tim Miller, the deputy communications director at the Republican National Committee, says the Obama campaign appears to be taking Arkansas seriously. "The President sent his national campaign manager to Bill Clinton's home state investing valuable time and resources in a place that won't be receptive to his record of bigger government, higher gas prices, and fewer jobs,” says Miller in an email.
The Democratic establishment also seems to be taking seriously Obama’s primary challenger in Arkansas, John Wolfe Jr. The state party, under the direction of the national party, has already suggested that it will deny Wolfe any national delegates he might win in the primary, claiming he did not file any of the correct paperwork to do so. “The facts are pretty clear on this,” said Martin. Wolfe himself has said the party is trying to “disenfranchise” Arkansas Democrats who vote against Obama.
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4 in 10 Democrats desert Obama in Arkansas, Kentucky (vote 'present')
The Hill ^ | 5/22/12 | Josh Lederman, Emily Goodin
Posted on May 23, 2012 5:05:57 AM EDT by Libloather
4 in 10 Democrats desert Obama in Arkansas, Kentucky
By Josh Lederman and Emily Goodin - 05/22/12 09:12 PM ET
Four in ten Democratic voters chose someone other than President Obama on Tuesday in primaries in Arkansas and Kentucky.
In Arkansas, John Wolfe — a perennial, long-shot candidate — took 41 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary, with 71 percent of precincts reporting. Obama came in just under 60 percent. The Associated Press did not call the race for Obama until close to midnight.
And in Kentucky, 42 percent of Democrats chose "uncommitted" rather than cast a vote for the incumbent president. Obama took 58 percent, with 99 percent of precincts reporting.
With turnout low, Romney did get more total votes than presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney, who won his primary with almost 67 percent of the vote. Obama had more than 118,600 votes to about 117,100 for Romney.
Obama's nomination for a second term by the Democratic Party has never been in danger. But the large number of defections is bad optics for Obama, highlighting widespread discontent with his administration among Democrats who come from conservative states.
A felon incarcerated in Texas took 41 percent of the vote from the president when Democrats in West Virginia cast ballots in the primary earlier in May.
The results in both Kentucky and Arkansas were not unexpected; both are solid red states. In 2008, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) won Kentucky with 58 percent and Arkansas with 59 percent.