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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, Obama 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.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/229023-in-kentucky-42-percent-of-dems-pick-uncommitted-instead-of-obama
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:hyper: Sucks for teh one.
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The lord is falling.
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The lord is falling.
Hope he reserved a great moving company now he will need it come January
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Hope he reserved a great moving company now he will need it come January
He will have the Black Panthers and the SEIU do it for him.
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I sure hope this ASShole Democrat (Obama) doesn't destroy the White House when he gets his sorry ass kicked out...like the last Democrat (Clinton) did when he was kicked to the curb.....
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We live in Arkansas. My wife and her family are from Kentucky. We did good yesterday.
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He will have the Black Panthers and the SEIU do it for him.
Maybe he will take Sharpton and Jackson with him when he goes
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We live in Arkansas. My wife and her family are from Kentucky. We did good yesterday.
I drive through AR all the time. Are you in the flats or the hills?
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I drive through AR all the time. Are you in the flats or the hills?
Northwest Arkansas, but not WallyWorld country !
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Northwest Arkansas, but not WallyWorld country !
Hardy?
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Hardy?
Har-har! :-)
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Hardy?
More west, and a little south.
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Har-har! :-)
:rimshot:
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More west, and a little south.
Eureka Springs?
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Hardy?
Closer to Laurel Miss.
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I like the NW portion of AR. Hills and clear water/rocks
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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, Obama 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.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/229023-in-kentucky-42-percent-of-dems-pick-uncommitted-instead-of-obama
I'm lovin' it.
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http://progressive.org/adler0609.html
40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation
By James Carville, with Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza
Simon & Schuster. 224 pages. $24.
By Ben Adler, June 2009 Issue
Is the youth vote a great investment in a party’s political future or a mirage not worth chasing? In the 2008 election, the media could not seem to get its story straight. For every cover in Time proclaiming 2008 the triumphant “Year of the Youth Vote,†there was a grizzled veteran on the op-ed pages or CNN to argue that the youth vote has always been the dog that never barks. ...
It's either 40 years or 4 before they get their asses kicked by a felon, a lawyer and no one. :-)