Presidential candidate Keith Russell Judd, a convicted felon is beating Obama in the overall vote out of West Virginia for president.
*We are in a horrible state of affairs anytime the race for our new President can include a felon serving time.
If ever there were a call for folks to hit the voting polls akin to the force of the 2008 elections…this is it!
President Obama lost in several counties in West Virginia to a felon serving 210 months in federal prison.
Perennial candidate Keith Russell Judd, pulled down roughly 40 percent (more…)
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Yeah…let the “LIARS” tell it! GTFOH!!
*We are in a horrible state of affairs anytime the race for our new President can include a felon serving time.
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I’m always in favor of a legitimate protest vote against Obama, but unfortunately this was not one. Yeah, race was a factor.
Now there is also another explanation:
The president angered voters with new Environmental Protection Agency policies, which some see as a “war on coal” and have stalled mining permits for the state’s coal mining industry. Both Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and Sen. Joe Manchin, both Democrats, have clashed with Obama on the issue, and neither has committed to supporting him in the fall.
“In talking to many West Virginians, they do recognize and realize that the president is working very hard to help working families across the country and in this state,” said state Democratic Party Chairman Larry Puccio. “It’s just that coal plays such a major role in West Virginia and folks are frustrated with this administration’s position.”
But it seems even more to do with race:
In the 2008 primary, 2 in 10 white West Virginia voters said race was an important factor in their votes, second only to Mississippi. Those voters went for Clinton 8 in 10 times.
In the 2008 Democratic primary, Obama lost West Virginia to Hillary Clinton by 41 points — even though her campaign was all but over.
In the fall, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) beat Obama in the state by 13 points.
Democrats outnumber Republicans in the state. West Virginia regularly votes in Democratic officials at the state level (its governor and all of its statewide elected officials are Democrats) and narrowly supported Bill Clinton in 1996. But the very rural state has never warmed to the current White House occupant.
Yeah, it’s a blue state, but their necks still red.
Let’s see if Gayle K chimes in about feeling like ‘screaming’ when RACE is injected into mix.