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When All Else Fails, Wear the Pin »

What does Barack Obama do when he realizes he will lose WV by a landslide?

Clinton’s Rural Advantage »

Shepherdstown, W. Va.
While Barack Obama is busy ordering champagne for his premature victory party on May 20th, Hillary Clinton is pounding the West Virginia trail to get-out-the-vote in Tuesday’s primary.
By all accounts Clinton will enjoy a double-digit win in West Virginia, followed by another in Kentucky one week later. And even though Obama, his surrogates, […]

Racism Doesn’t Go Just One Way [UPDATE] »

UPDATE: We’re with you, Dalton Hatfield, all of 11 years old, of Williamson, West Virginia. We are WITH you!
When Hatfield presented former President Bill Clinton with a check for $440 after Friday’s rally at the Williamson Fire Station, the man who was once the leader of the free world seemed to nearly come to […]

Kentucky Poll: Wright, Bitterness, Bosnia, Electability »

Conceding Kentucky to Clinton, Obama has already dismissed Kentucky Democrats as so many “typical white people” whose participation in the Democratic primary is inconsequential. Kentucky Democrats will determine the outcome of the general election, however. And according to a poll conducted on behalf of Herald-Leader/WKYT on May 7-9, 2008, Obama has an electability […]

The Obama Democrats’ Ostrich Moment »

The full-court press to force Hillary from the presidential race ain’t working. She will win the West Virginia, Kentucky, and Puerto Rico primaries.
But the screwed-up, patchwork system the Democrats are using to choose delegates has given small states, which are unlikely to be in the Democratic column come November, inordinate influence. […]

There’s “Hillary Fever” in Kentucky (Open Thread) »

Do you think these people, shown in this video — these salt-of-the-earth people — deserve a chance to help choose the nominee on May 20? Do you? How about you, Howard Dean? How ’bout you, Nancy Pelosi? And you, Patrick Leahy? (And who gives a damn what you think about anything anyway, Mr. Leahy.)