Barack Obama was blown out in the West Virginia primary. It's not that Obama didn't try. He went so far as to wear a lapel flag pin, but to no avail.
Hillary Clinton scored a massive victory.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Hillary Rodham Clinton coasted to a large but largely symbolic victory in working-class West Virginia on Tuesday, handing Barack Obama one of the worst defeats of the campaign yet scarcely slowing his march toward the Democratic presidential nomination.
"The White House is won in the swing states. And I am winning the swing states," Clinton told cheering supporters at a victory rally.
She coupled praise for Obama with a pledge to persevere in a campaign in which she has become the decided underdog. "This race isn't over yet," she said. "Neither of us has the total delegates it takes to win."
Obama looked ahead to the Oregon primary later in the month and to the general election campaign against Republican John McCain, but the West Virginia defeat underscored his weakness among blue collar voters who will be pivotal in the fall.
"This is our chance to build a new majority of Democrats and independents and Republicans who know that four more years of George Bush just won't do," Obama said in Missouri, which looms as a battleground state in November.
Oh, for God's sake, will someone tell Obama that McCain is not George Bush?
"This is our moment to turn the page on the divisions and distractions that pass for politics in Washington," added the man seeking to become the first black presidential nominee of a major party.
With votes from 98 percent of West Virginia's precincts counted, Clinton was winning 67 percent of the vote, to 26 percent for Obama.
The lib media are focusing on the symbolic nature of Hillary's victory.
She can't catch Obama.
They're saying her tone has been more conciliatory in recent days.
Yeah, well, whatever. It seems to me that the Dems are extremely divided.
That division isn't symbolic. It's very real.
Clinton's triumph approached the 70 percent of the vote she gained in Arkansas, her best state to date. It came courtesy of an overwhelmingly white electorate comprised of the kinds of voters who have favored her throughout the primaries. Nearly a quarter were 60 or older, and a similar number had no education beyond high school. More than half were in families with incomes of $50,000 or less, and the former first lady was wining a whopping 69 percent of their votes.
Once again, the lib media point out that Hillary gets her support from the old, white, uneducated voters.
Why don't they just say that Hillary is victorious thanks to bigots?
The lib media seem to be saying that blue-collar whites aren't really voting FOR Hillary. They're voting AGAINST Obama. They won't vote for a black guy.
Of course, when Obama carries 90+ percent of the black vote, that has nothing to do with race.
Go figure.
I'm tired of the double standard.
Obama's supporters should be considered as bigoted as Hillary's supporters, even more bigoted really.
Certainly, not all of Obama's supporters are highly educated.
The lib media claim that Obama isn't elitist. His campaign isn't elitist. If that's the case, then why do the media keep demeaning people with a high school education? Why are blue collar voters being treated like second-class citizens?
That sounds elitist to me.
Obviously, people keep voting for Hillary, in extremely large numbers.
They're being told that it's nearly impossible for Hillary to win the Dem nomination, yet they vote for her.
Can the Dems unite for November?
Will the Republicans be willing to rally behind McCain?
I don't know.
I think 2008 is shaping up to be the election of our discontent.
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