Let's hear it for the Democrats!!!!!!!!
Posted on 05/13/2008 7:14:44 PM PDT by mdittmar
Hillary Clinton has cruised to a crushing win over Barack Obama in West Virginia's primary, but did little to shake her rival's stranglehold on the Democratic White House race.
Television network projections handed victory to the former first lady as soon as the polls closed, highlighting African-American Obama's struggle to win over white, working class voters who play a key role in general election swing states.
"You will never quit, and I won't either," Clinton told cheering supporters at her victory rally here on Tuesday.
"There are some who have wanted to cut this race short," Clinton said.
"I am more determined than ever to carry on with this campaign until everyone has had their chance to make their voices heard," Clinton said, in a hint she may carry on through the five remaining nominating contests.
With 20 percent of the votes in, Clinton led Obama by 63 percent to 30 percent in the 95 percent white state, which has only 28 of the 2,025 pledged delegates needed for the nomination.
But the win was not sufficient to upset the mathematical equation in the race, which Obama leads by every metric -- pledged delegates, party insiders or superdelegates, the popular vote and nominating contests won.
Obama had already conceded the primary and was in the general-election battleground of Missouri as results came in, as he geared up for a potential November face-off against Republican John McCain.
But the former first lady argued she was the best bet to win white swing voters in crucial battleground states like Pennsylvania and Ohio, in a general election showdown against McCain.
"I am in this race because I believe I am the strongest candidate," she said.
The former first lady fired off a fundraising appeal within an hour of polls closing, underscoring her indebted campaign's desperate need for cash to carry on.
Exit polls cited by MSNBC showed that Clinton won white voters by 68 percent to 28 for Obama, and won 72 percent of those earning less than 50,000 dollars, compared to her foe's 24 percent.
Early exit polls cited by CNN said that 64 percent of voters in West Virginia said the economy was the number one issue, with Iraq second on 19 percent.
Worryingly for Obama, who is vying to become America's first black president, Fox News exit data said 51 percent of voters believed that he shared the views of his controversial former pastor Jeremiah Wright, who sparked a crisis for his campaign with racially tinged sermons.
Earlier, Clinton's odds grew longer still as Obama racked up more party insiders, or superdelegates, including Roy Romer, a former governor of Colorado.
Romer, an ex-chairman of the Democratic National Committee who was a national co-chairman of president Bill Clinton's re-election campaign in 1996, said "Senator Clinton has been a very strong and formidable candidate.
"But there is a time that we need to end it and direct ourselves to the general election. I think that time is now," he said on a media conference call.
The two senators had a close encounter earlier Tuesday as they made a rare appearance in Congress for a series of votes.
As she walked into the Capitol building, Clinton was asked how she felt about West Virginia and replied "excellent."
At one point, Obama approached Clinton and patted her on the shoulder and the arm, and she smiled broadly as they exchanged a few words before he left the Senate chamber.
As he awaited his expected defeat, Obama made the point that he is the all but inevitable Democratic nominee, looking ahead to a matchup with McCain, heading to midwestern Missouri.
"While the Bush-Cheney ticket won't be up for reelection, the Bush-Cheney policies will, because John McCain is running for four more years of the same approach that has failed the American people," Obama said in Cape Girardeau, referring to President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
"His only answer to the problems created by George Bush's policies is to give them another four years to fail. Just look at where he stands and you'll see that a vote for John McCain is a vote for George Bush's third term."
Before West Virginia's votes were counted Obama's tally of superdelegates on the RealClearPolitics website rose to 283, against 272 for Clinton. In total, including delegates elected in state contests, he has 1,874 to her 1,698, nearer the winning line of 2,025.
MUWHAHAHAHAH!
The DUmmies are having siezures...
please send quotes
The RATS are going to need a lot of hair dye to get through this election. Their candidate just got shellacked by someone the MSM has already written off.
Outstanding.
you go gurl. Show em who’s da boss !! This is gonna be worth the price of admission just to hear that ‘’great gushing sound’’
Yes, I agree they are having seizures. All those years of identity politics have come home to roost. Where have I heard that before?
They now face the probability of having a candidate on the basis of affirmative action or a candidate on the basis of the equal rights amendment to Constitution (that never passed).
They will try to make it sound different than it is, but the MSM is fast losing power to influence matters even though they are not aware of it. The election in West Virginia is emblematic of that loss of influence.
“please send quotes”
Ewww....bad enough I had to read it...I wont sully my clipboard with that crap...
Besides...tht might run afoul of posting rules...I dunno...
This should bring about even more pledged SUPER delegates in the near future FOR Obama, LOL
The bog O supporter out number the billery fans...but the billery fans wont give up...
I see a few hundred bans coming before it’s over...
the paranoia is getting to them...
Now if you have under 500 posts they scream freeper...
HILLARIOUS!
BTW..McCian is STILL a RINO...
*snicker*
Let's hear it for the Democrats!!!!!!!!
Let's hear it for the Democrats!!!!!!!!
In the final 4 weeks, she is only down 176 delegates with 189 to still be chosen. Go Hillary!
You go girl!!!!!!!!!!
When Obama's mouth moves, is anyone speaking?
MAKE YOUR VOTE, COUNTRY FOLK
Tune: "Take Me Home, Country Roads" Original
By Winn Denver
Almost landslide, West Virginia
Numbers mountin', headin' on to Denver
Folks are white here, whiter than the sheets
That the early Byrd wore, blowin' in the breeze
Country folk, make your vote
For the race you belong
Mrs. Clinton, not Obama
Make your vote, country folk
All my prim'ries dare not end here
My election's set for this November
Dark and dusky stranger on the rise
Mustn't let him beat me, take away my prize
Country folk, make your vote
For the race you belong
Mrs. Clinton, not Obama
Make your vote, country folk
I hear your voice, in the evenin' hours you cheer me
This victory assures me that I'm queen for a day
And standin' on the stage
I get a feeling that this Wheeling's all the U.S.A.
U.S.A.
Country folk, make your vote
For the race you belong
Mrs. Clinton, not Obama
Make your vote, country folk . . .
Ah-Ha! She is saying that a Black person will never have a chance to win the presidency...That is the Democratic Party for you...
Nobody’s home.
I wonder who the old Klansman voted for. Of course, only Republicans can be racist.
excellent observation
Just a cardboard cut-out?
;-)
but it’s a “clean and articulate” cut-out!
Does he even know where he is ?
She not only won....but she trounced him 2 to 1. That is huge...and the media does not like it one bit. I like her...she is a fighter and doesn’t quit, she has the strength to be President. And though I don’t agree with her ideology...you have to give her credit.
Obama is half white, half black. Which side is racist?
His backside.
LOL! I love it!
But, it is so disgusting to see the wife of an impeached ex-president get this close to the oval office especially when her husband asks us to stand by her, even though, he hasn't.
Credit for what?
Blowing an election that she should have won in a cake walk months ago?
Taking a winning hand and playing it so badly that she ended up on the wrong side of the delegate count and popular vote count?
Her skill in handling a core, key voting group - and managing to alienate them to the point where they now vote 90+% against her? Misspending mountains of cash so that she is now $20 million in debt?
Repeatedly insulting voters and states by saying that their votes don't count?
Hang in there Hillary. And don’t listen to the pundits and delegates saying not to hurt the party by trashing Obambi. Go ahead and let him have with both barrels.
Barack Hypocrite Obama campaigned and raised money for the Old Klansman in the 2006 election. The half-black hypocrite said that he agreed with Don Imus getting fired for his "racist" comment, but apparently didn't have much of a problem with Sheets' "white n*****r" remark.
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