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A New Electoral Reality: Obama 380, McCain 158

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Electoral College, History, McCain, West Virginia

With West Virginia now being thrown into the toss-up column on Pollster.com and FiveThirtyEight, this is what it would look like if Obama won all the swing states.

What’s more, if electoral history is any judge, the pickup of West Virginia wouldn’t necessarily be a surprise. Going back to the election of 1968, Dems have won [...]

October 10th, 2008 | Permalink| 3 Comments »

SHOCK: Obama Up By 8 In West Virginia?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, McCain, West Virginia

Obama: 50%
McCain: 42%
Is this an outlier? Perhaps. But even if it is, the race is probably a lot closer to being tied than most think.
The key here is Independents are breaking for Obama 50% to 38%. And I think, once again, that this shows the Palin pick doesn’t necessarily speak to “small town Americans.”
Nate Silver [...]

October 9th, 2008 | Permalink| 5 Comments »

Jon Stewart On West Virginia

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Comedy, Hillary, Race, Video, West Virginia

Ahhh Jon…it’s almost too easy…

I hadn’t seen those interviews before, but seriously…wow. Gotta love that reasoning!

May 24th, 2008 | Permalink| 10 Comments »

Sen. Robert Byrd Endorses Obama

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Hillary, West Virginia

The former KKK member (a long, long, long time ago) and West Virginia senator sends a symbolic message to the Democrats in his state who vote overwhelmingly for Hillary.
From WVGazette.com:
“As people all across this great nation know, I have been one of the most outspoken opponents of the Bush administration’s misguided war in Iraq and [...]

May 19th, 2008 | Permalink| 2 Comments »

Clinton Wins West Virginia 2 To 1?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Hillary, Video, West Virginia

That’s what the exit polls are suggesting and MSNBC just called it.
If that holds up, she’ll get 19 delegates and he’ll get about 9. So +10 for her tonight is likely.
By the way, if she got 75% of the remaining pledged delegates, she’d have to get 80% of the remaining superdelegates to catch up.
Watch [...]

May 13th, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

Hillary: Obama Shouldn’t Get To Write Off West Virginia

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Hillary, West Virginia

Oh, you mean like when she wrote off all those caucus states post Super Tuesday?
Or like the argument that because she’s winning the big states, that’s what matters?
Or her popular vote argument? You mean trying to get away with stuff like that?
Here’s the memo from Hillary’s camp:
Given the attempts by our opponent and [...]

May 13th, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

Obama Will Lose West Virginia Big Today

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Hillary, Polls, West Virginia

To the polls…
Suffolk University has him down by 36 points, with 16% still undecided.
American Research Group has him down by 43, with 11% still undecided.
Rasmussen has him down by 29, with 27% still undecided.
TSG/Orion Strategies has him down 40, with 14% undecided.
The one bit of good news for Obama? The expectations are SO low [...]

May 13th, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

Clinton’s Leads in KY and WV Point to Lingering Problems for Obama

By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Hillary, Kentucky, West Virginia

Polls indicate that Hillary Clinton is headed for landslide victories in Kentucky’s and West Virginia’s primaries. She leads by 29 and 34 points respectively. Unfortunately for Clinton, this is what’s known as too little, too late.
Still, the Barack Obama campaign has to be concerned that the Illinois Senator is still underperforming in states with high [...]

May 12th, 2008 | Permalink| 2 Comments »

Rockefeller Apologizes to McCain

By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in McCain, West Virginia

Senator John D. Rockefeller IV recently had some unkind words to say about John McCain. In attempt to paint the Republican presidential nominee as out-of-touch with common people, Rockefeller said:
”McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit. What happened when they get to the [...]

April 9th, 2008 | Permalink| 2 Comments »

Huckabee Wins West Virginia

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Huckabee, McCain, Republicans, Romney, West Virginia

Because of their “unique” caucus rules, West Virginians had to vote twice. After the first vote, Romney had the top spot, Huckabee was second and McCain was third. But a candidate has to get over 50% in order to get the winner-take-all delegates, and Romney only had 40.9%.
Then McCain called his people and told [...]

February 5th, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »