West Virginians Choose Clinton, As Race Plays A Larger Role (Exit Polls Find Racism In Dem Party?

International Herald Tribune ^ | 5/14/2008 | Patrick Healy

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton arranged to meet with uncommitted superdelegates following her lopsided victory in the West Virginia primary, as her supporters argued that her appeal to some traditional Democratic voting blocks may change opinions despite the long odds against her...

Governor Ed Rendell of pennsylvania, a Clinton supporter, said in an interview on CNN on Wednesday that "superdelegates have to have second thoughts" after West Virginia...

The number of white Democratic voters who said that race influenced their choice Tuesday was among the highest recorded in voter surveys in the Clinton-Obama nomination fight. Two in 10 white West Virginia voters said that race was an important factor in their vote...

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Link to extensive exit poll data below.

MSNBC polling data:

"In deciding your vote for president today, was the race of the candidate: Important - 22%, Not Important 77%"

Well, well, the Democrat Party's determination to divide people among racial and gender lines (among other things) is coming back to haunt them?

Or, are Obama's words about bitter, small-town voters clinging to religion, god, guns, etc, and his words "typical white person," continuing to haunt him?

Or both?

Libs engaging in race-baiting is nothing new, though. The LA Times "Barack the Magic Negro," is one example among many.

Wasn't Juan Williams called a "happy negro," by a liberal?

So many things to cite, so little time.

Perhaps some here have some more to cite?

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

MSNBC

West Virginia - Democrats - Exit Polls - msnbc.com

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21226014

One page from the last finds that for 22% of voters in West Virginia, race was an important factor.

[freeangel]

“superdelegates have to have second thoughts”

Too late—it’s already a done deal. Hillary will be VP or nothing.

[muawiyah]

Alternatively West Virginia voters realized that Obama is just another slimey Chicago politician and would probably have no trouble sitting down with the Coal barons to screw them one more time.

[Ouderkirk]

DemocRATS....the party of Slavery, Segregation, Secularism, and Sedition

[Godwin1]

And race hasn't played a part before this? More than 90 percent of Black voters opt for Obama. Is that not about race?

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

And the extensive use of race-baiting.

We musn’t forget that one, even though this doesn’t begin with an S.

[Ouderkirk]

Hillary will not be VP.

With Hillary as VP, Obama will not live long after 12:00 AM Jan 20, 2011.

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Yes, that is about race.

If black Dems won't vote for McCain, I wonder if the LMSM will call that racism?

Nope.They’ll say it is because of the “issues.”

But, alternatively, white Republicans will be accused of racism if they don't vote for Obama.

The MSM need look no further than the Dem Party for racism, though? West Virginia Dem primary apparently shows this.

[peeps36]

Only 2 out of 10 white people said race was important and that is suppose to be a large number? Meanwhile, 9.5 out of 10 black people vote for a black Obama and the media claims that it is white people who are voting based on race. I don't know how anyone could take the bums in the media seriously.

[Dilbert San Diego]

The Democrats are the party of tolerance, inclusion, celebration of every possible form of diversity, including all types of people. How can there be any racism among good Democrats? All the racists became Republicans, didn’t they? Is the Democratic orthodoxy on that subject incorrect? It is fun to watch the Democrats be tied in knots on this subject. They are on the verge of nominating a black presidential nominee, and are faced with big numbers of their voters not wanting to vote for that person due to his race. Are they judging him based on the color of his skin or the content of his character?

And did those same voters really think that Hillary had great content of character by comparision?

[Charles Henrickson]

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 . . .

[BunnySlippers]

I’ve never been to WV but it looks like it’s ONLY small towns and rural ... no urban areas.

[mathurine]

WV has practically no black people; many communities there have none at all. The image of blacks that comes to them via the news is not that great— Rev. Al, Rev. Jesse, street gangs, riots, and overseas Somalia, Zimbabwe. The image that’s there is the one that is there. If Barack Obama condescended to campaign in WV he might have a chance. So far he has scarcely set foot in the state, but he did succeed in hacking off a lot of people there when he made his remarks about clinging to religion and guns. Perhaps he should notice little things like the fact that those religious gun lovers have a state with far less crime per capita than any state he has ever lived in, and that the state has a higher percentage of home ownership than most despite a low per capita income. Personally, I have never seen Barack, so I don’t know whether he’s black or not. The mainstream media says he is, but why would anyone believe them?

[VRWC For Truth]

Who would have thunk?