Obama beats a federal prisoner by less than 20% in the West Virginia D. Primary.

[The Mikado]

He stopped being a superhero in 1982?  Was there a kryptonite epidemic that year or something?

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

There's still an additional state that might join OK and WV:

Arkansas

There's not only "Uncommitted" on the ballot, but also John Wolfe.

Obama might get only 50-60% here as well.

I'm hoping that at least one state will actually vote against Obama in the primary... that would just be awesome

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

So this guy is basically a white version of Alvin Greene?

[Tender Branson]

Why is this guy even allowed to be on the ballot ?

Aren't prisoners in the US usually not even allowed to vote ?

[Eraserhead]

There's still an additional state that might join OK and WV:

Arkansas

There's not only "Uncommitted" on the ballot, but also John Wolfe.

Obama might get only 50-60% here as well.

At least John Wolfe is actually to the left of Obama (and, you know, not an inmate).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

This is actually pretty funny. I mean, you could look at it from a more serious point of view, the way in which it shows the distance between the political system and people in an economically distressed region and so on, or you could just sit back and grin inanely at 40% for a federal prisoner against an incumbent President. Let's do the latter.

[Tender Branson]

40% of WV Democrats would vote for a guy named John Spiderman (who turns out to be a black drug dealer), just to piss off Obama. Because they have no clue who this Spiderman guy is.

[Modernity has failed us]

I'm laughing so hard right now.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

These are the people Snowstalker wants Democrats to cater to.

No one turned out, and Obama will mathematically win about 70% or more of Democrats in 2012. "Catering" doesn't necessarily mean adopting social conservatism; it means waiting until the GOP becomes more socially liberal/libertarian (which is inevitable) and then moving more towards economic left-populism through a coalition of minorities and working-class whites.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I never had any doubts Romney is going to landslide in West Virginia. Simply because he is not Obama.

[Modernity has failed us]

Did Judd win any delegates?

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Obama isn't winning a single county in November.

Probably not.  He won 7 counties in 2008, including Morgantown's (WVU) Monongalia, Jefferson in the Eastern Panhandle and some Southern West Virginia counties that have voted Democratic for decades.  My guess is he'll still win a few counties.  It will be interesting to see if the coal country holdouts that voted for Obama in 2008 flip this time, given Obama's anti-coal policies. 

If they didn't flip in 2008, they're not flipping this year. Given current polling and Obama's more populist campaign, he'll get 44-45% in West Virginia, which obviously is bad for a Democrat but marginally better than 2008.

[WhyteRain]

There are 180 electoral votes between the Potomac and Rio Grande rivers; Romney will get every one of them.  That means he needs only 89 more (a 269-269 tie will give the GOP nominee the win in a Congressional vote).

[mondale84]

Has someone put this hilarious map together?

BTW...I'm working on a DEM primaries map from this year...even though the info for some states is hard to come by...so I'll be posting that soon...

[Meeker]

Did Judd win any delegates?

If he did they'll be taken away (just like the non-Obama delegates in Oklahoma and Louisiana).

[timothyinMD]

And you guys wonder why I said Obama wont even break 30% in West Virginia this November.

The 41% for Judd is wholly dislike of Obama.  Pretty funny.

Mingo County has 17K registered Dems and only 3K registered Repubs.  Closed primary, so of course Dems have a higher turnout.  Statewide it's 53% Dem and just 27% Repub.

Obama had been the first Democrat to lose Mingo since McGovern in 72. 

[Stranger in a strange land]

There are 180 electoral votes between the Potomac and Rio Grande rivers; Romney will get every one of them.  That means he needs only 89 more (a 269-269 tie will give the GOP nominee the win in a Congressional vote).

Right now, I wouldn't count on Romney winning Virginia, and it's very difficult to see a path to 270 (or 269) for him without it.

[ajb]

There are 180 electoral votes between the Potomac and Rio Grande rivers; Romney will get every one of them.  That means he needs only 89 more (a 269-269 tie will give the GOP nominee the win in a Congressional vote).

Right now, I wouldn't count on Romney winning Virginia, and it's very difficult to see a path to 270 (or 269) for him without it.

I wouldn't count on Romney winning NC or FL, either. If you want to say he's favored, in spite of the current polling, I can see that argument. But they're not sure things, by any means.

[mondale84]

There are 180 electoral votes between the Potomac and Rio Grande rivers; Romney will get every one of them.  That means he needs only 89 more (a 269-269 tie will give the GOP nominee the win in a Congressional vote).

Non-sequitur

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

And you guys wonder why I said Obama wont even break 30% in West Virginia this November.

Not that low. Based on polling, I don't see him below 40-41% barring utter collapse. Based on Obama's numbers in these counties in 2008 and the general, he really has nothing to lose other than a guaranteed base. What's really needed is for Manchin to publicly support Obama (he privately does already, but he's clearly too much of a coward). He'll still win easily given his overall popularity and that Byrd was among Obama's greatest supporters, but clearly he's a selfish jerk who wants to win 70% instead of 65%.

[LiberalJunkie]

Anyone have a map for this?

[Oakvale]

Ah, West Virginia...

[timothyinMD]

Obama isn't winning a single county in November.

Probably not.  He won 7 counties in 2008, including Morgantown's (WVU) Monongalia, Jefferson in the Eastern Panhandle and some Southern West Virginia counties that have voted Democratic for decades.  My guess is he'll still win a few counties.  It will be interesting to see if the coal country holdouts that voted for Obama in 2008 flip this time, given Obama's anti-coal policies. 

If they didn't flip in 2008, they're not flipping this year. Given current polling and Obama's more populist campaign, he'll get 44-45% in West Virginia, which obviously is bad for a Democrat but marginally better than 2008.

44-45%  I actually laughed out loud when I read that

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

That seems completely reasonable, given that it's barely an increase from 2008.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Didn't even know it was legal for inmates to be on the ballot...