Clinton wins in Kentucky
Hillary Clinton put another blue-collar state in her column.
But her victory in the Kentucky primary might only delay the inevitable with Barack Obama's apparently insurmountable lead in the decisive delegate count.
He is expected to win the Oregon primary later tonight and appears likely to go over the number needed to claim a majority of all pledged delegates chosen in primaries and caucuses.
With 99 percent of precincts reporting in Kentucky, Clinton has 65 percent to Obama's 30 percent.
"Everybody says it's over, but Hillary keeps winning," Terry McAuliffe, Clinton's campaign chairman, said on MSNBC.
And those wins, he said, strengthen Clinton's argument to superdelegates that she would be the stronger nominee.
"The question is going to be: Who can best carry these states in the general election?"
Kentucky's electorate is in many ways similar to West Virginia, which Clinton won last week by 41 percentage points, and to portions of Pennsylvania and Ohio, which she won in March and April.
And like recent voting states, exit polls indicate a yawning divide between Clinton's supporters and Barack Obama's backers.
Only one-third of Kentucky voters for Clinton said they would vote for Obama if he wins the nomination, while 41 percent said they would vote for Republican John McCain, 23 percent said they would stay home, and 3 percent said they would support other candidates.
Obama supporters appear more magnanimous, according to the exit polls conducted for the TV networks and the Associated Press: 71 percent said they would vote for Clinton if she gets the nomination, while only 14 percent said they would support McCain, and 11 percent said they wouldn't vote.



Clinton supporters are pretty angry right now, but I'm sure come the general election, the real Democrats will unite behind Obama. There's plenty of time before November to woo Hillary's people back to the light :-)
Some people will rally behind Obama when he wins. But don't underestimate the work Clinton has done to undermine Obama in order to win.
For example, the comment, when asked, "Do you believe Obama is a muslim?" Her answer was, "No, I don't think so. At least, as far as I know..."
This kind of subtle, underhanded undermining of the other democratic candidate is characteristic of a person who believes politics means doing whatever it takes to win. She is dangerously close to undermining the democrats chances in November. Is she in it just for herself or does she support her own party?
There is no doubt that she is a hard, efficient worker with the best interests of her country at heart. She herself has been the victim of countless unfair attacks throughout her career. But instead of rising above it, she has learned to work with the cruel system as it is. Maybe she is saying to herself, 'Can this new guy put up with the harsh criticism that I've had to endure?' But really, I think it is just about winning no matter what for her.
Despite the incessant cheerleading from the mainstream media, results like this indicate that Obama is going to get smoked in a general election. He will win Massachusetts, Oregon, and the large black-population southern states. By my count McCaain wins at least 40 states in a general election.
w/ two-in-a-row worse drubbings, obama has suddenly transmogrified, from a media-declared, self-crowned "presumptive" nominee, into a "PRESUMTUOUS" NOMINEE.
that's what he gets out of his preferred MONOLOGUES (rather than discourses w/ the voters, or debates w/ hillary) on his copied program of government (from hillary's 'textbook,' to use obama's one fave word) & other inanities before his catatonic captive audiences.
i don't understand CLINTON people who will not vote for OBAMA should he become the party's nominee ~ do they want another 4 years of BUSH failed policies? ~ is this a personality contest or about the real and devastating issues that face them?
there's a lesson to be had--for obama--in these kentucky & oregon primaries's results
w/ two-in-a-row worse drubbings, obama has suddenly transmogrified, from a media-declared, self-crowned "presumptive" nominee, into a "PRESUMPTUOUS" NOMINEE.
that's what he gets out of his preferred MONOLOGUES (rather than discourses w/ the voters, or debates w/ hillary) on his copied program of government (from hillary's 'textbook,' to use obama's one fave word) & other inanities before his catatonic captive audiences.
By Fighting Obama's Victory, Clinton Has Helped Lawyers Rather Than Voters Decide America's Election
Read this: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/20830259/the_superdelegates
the only way that clinton gets the nomination is if she steals it, which is something that she would totally do. that being said, clinton cannot straight up win and only hurts her party . . . actually, clinton has no party, it's just the bill and hillary party because she is loyal to nobody.
she reminds me of governor tracy from the movie black sheep with chris farley. man i can't stand clinton!
The reason Clinton voters will vote for McCain over Obama is because Clinton is closer to the center than Obama (Who is far to the Left) Any Clinton Voters will probably be closer to McCain (who is closer to the center than Bush or Huckaby)...
Just imagine that it was McCain and Huckaby fighting it out, and Clinton with the nomination locked up... If Huckaby beat out McCain, most of McCain's supporters would go toward Clinton because Huckaby is too far to the Right.
For all Clinton's talk about sexism, I find it disturbing that she doesn't think twice about the racist tone of the campaign. (I'm a white woman.) Her win in Kentucky is not surprising, given that a significant percentage of voters would never bring themselves to vote for an African-American. (I agree with the theory that if John Edwards were still in the race, he would have easily beaten Hillary in a place like West Virginia - obviously 7% of voters couldn't bring themselves to vote for a woman OR a black man, despite Edwards being gone for months.) As for seating the delegates from Michigan and Florida, how fair is that when Obama wasn't even on the ballot in one of those states? I guess the situation is only fair when it suits her needs. It's not hard to say "I'd be winning the popular vote if these states were counted" when your opponent wasn't even an option for voters!
I also resent Clinton supporters referring to Obama supporters as eggheads, non-"hard working," zealots, etc. Way to promote party unity there and to focus on the real foe. Obama has engaged in over 20 debates with Sen. Clinton and is hardly hiding. As for trying to marginalize the crowds that he draws, it's just sour grapes that she isn't drawing the same. The Clintons tried to push Obama out long ago with their "he would make a good vice president for Hillary" talk and it's ironic that Hillary is trying to portray herself as a victim. And if you've got nearly $12M of your own bucks to loan your campaign, let's talk about the elitism label, shall we?
I think Obama's got his flaws, but entitlement isn't one of them. The Clintons have no one to blame but themselves for the tone of the campaign they've run.
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