Why haven't you posted the North Carolina poll? And the recent Gallup poll?

Guess I've been wrong about Obama's chances all along. If the good folks in Redneckistan prefer Hillary,who am I to argue? Thank god I've seen the light before that slick huckster Barack got my vote. I'm gonna write a big check to Hillary right now....Gotta Go! Incoming Sniper Fire

Well, this is a good start for Clinton.

8 or 9 more states like Kentucky, and she'll be right back in this thing.

May 20 is a long way away.

Anyone want to put money down that Hillary does not win Kentucky by 29 pts?

Take a drive through Kentucky as I did many times, and you'll understand why Hillary leads there overwhelmingly.

Awesome! I guess that means Kentucky will be in play in November. Unless it's a caucus. Then I will be confused.

woot, 30 more delegates for Clinton!

At this rate, she's only be behind by 100 by the convention!

Go Hill!

How many delegates are even at stake in Kentucky?

As a Kentuckian, I suggest to you that she will not win by that margin. Obama will do fine in the larger metro areas of Louisville, Lexington, and probably Northern Kentucky, near Cincinnati. The rural areas, however, are Clinton's demographic...

Buts its a long way off, I suspect Obama will cut into her lead substantially. Just no where near close enough to win.

That New Hampshire Lachrymose stunt is so yesterday.

Weep No More My Lady.

The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home,
'Tis summer, the darkies are gay;
The corn-top's ripe and the meadow's in the bloom,
While the birds make music all the day.

The young folks roll on the little cabin floor,
All merry, all happy and bright;
By 'n' by Hard Times comes a-knocking at the door,
Then my old Kentucky home, goodnight.

Chorus
Weep no more my lady
Oh! weep no more today!
We will sing one song for the old Kentucky home,
For the Old Kentucky Home far away.

Bill and Hill feel right down home in Old Kentuck!!

A blow-out victory on what could generally be seen as your own turf doesn't strike me as news, though the margin is pretty substantial. I expect it to close. At this point, I am starting to sense some sort of Appalachian trend towards Clinton, but I'm not sure what, if anything, this signifies.

I sure hope HRC isn't planning to use KY to slip in the back door of the convention.

anybody get that feeling Kentucky is starting to count?

Yee-haw.

Oh, it's great to see how many "liberals" here think of disadvantaged fellow human beings as "clay eating" and "mouth breathers". Oops, I forgot it's ok if they're white.

P.S. I'm an Obama supporter.

Hillary's got this thing about sewed up.

Obama really should step aside for the good of the party, and the country!

Rae

I have nothing to base this on (except knowing a lot of racists and being related to some of them) but I think that the longer the general election campaign can be, the more *hope* there is of these voters making the the all important switch from "a black man" to "Barack Obama". That's how all discrimination (racial, gender, any kind) breaks down: when you stop seeing the WHAT and become able to see the WHO.

But it requires time and exposure for that to happen, a chance for them to realize that it IS going to be one of these two people, like it or not, and there might be other things they want to consider. I don't think that kind of 'biting the bullet' is going to happen until it's just the two candidates, R and D, and the choice is squarely before them.

HRC should be concerned that her support is coming from the KY, KKK, base

Anyone want to bet Obama is roadkill in KY and PA.

The momentum has switched and Clinton is ready to sprint to the finish.

"Obama the Gelding" in the place position.

I bet Eric wet himself posting this.

Whatever helps you sleep, dear.

I can't wait to hear Hillary's surrogates explain why Washington, Wisconsin, and Minnesota don't matter but Kentucky does.

Wow guys! REALLY nice sentiments for your fellow dems in ky!! Thanx! The ONLY reason hrc is doing soo well at the moment is she, bill and chelsea have been spending time here lately. Kentucky may go for hrc but it will NOT be the blowout that the poll is reflecting. Being from Louisville, I predict Obama wins Jefferson county, the largest metro area in the state! When Obama has been here, he's had amazing turn outs!! REDNECKISTAN? Really? I'm so insulted I don't know what to say.

Isn't this a state that re-elected a crazy and/or senile Republican guy to the senate recently? Nuff said.

Thanks for the reminder. Time to donate more to Obama's campaign to negate your $25.

Hillary has not paid any of the vendors in states that she has lost. She has only paid for vendors of states that she has won. Don't you know that only states that vote for Hillary matter? States that do not vote for Hillary do not matter and the same goes for any debts incurred in states where she lost.

I love you Kentucky!

Are you saying that if a white person votes for another white person because they are white they are a racist. But if a black person votes for another black person because they're black they're not.

Mmmmmmm...fried chicken

OK following your explanation, a white person voting for a white person because they are white is a bigot. And a black person voting for a black person because they are black is one as well.

Good news, Kentuckians -- it looks like your state will count!*

*Note: Kentucky will not count if Senator Obama somehow manages to close the gap and win.

Frankly, I dont differentiaate much from stereotypes based on skin color and stereotypes based on geographci location. I find them all dispicable and intellectually lazy, I find the term mouthbreather or nedneck little more than a slur. You want to blame some states for Hillary staying in this tight rrace? Look no further than CA, NY, MA and NJ.

The fact is that there are many reasons that Hillary could be doing well than has nothing to do with race baiting. First and foremost, the Clintons have always performed well in Kentucky. Bill carrried the state twice for Democrats in the general election against non-black opponents. Those so called rednecks are also what we call working poor, and they carried this party for decades. They also probably haven't forgotten that they did quite well under Bill's eight years. But because they dont vote the way you want them to vote, you minimalize them the way soft racist "social progressives" like Geraldine Ferraro minimalize blacks (I pity them, but I shouldn't have to actually compete against them as equal human beings).

I voted for Obama, but when i hear discourse like above it saddens me. Not only is it inflammatory nonsense similar to what I could hear on the A.M. dial from Hannity or Rush, it gives his critics ammo ... because evidently some of his supporters really aren't interested in elevating the political discourse in this country, for them it really is little more than a fad.

Kentucky was a solid blue state until about the last couple of decades. Now it is a solid red state. It now has two Republican Senators and 4 of its 6 Reps are Republican. Although the governor is a Democrat, and Dems control the Ky House by a fairly large majority, the Ky Senate has a very narrow Republican majority.

A large majority of Ky voters are still registered as Democrats; however, many of these are very conservative Dems and identify much more closely with the Republican party.

Often in the Ky primary, there may be several candidates on the Democratic side, but only one (or none) on the Republican ticket for any partisan office. This means that registered Republicans may not be able to vote in primaries since Republicans cannot vote for Dems and vice-versa. Therefore, many registered Democrats are likely Republicans in disguise, just so they can vote in the primary.

I would guess that these Republicans-in-disguise would be more likely to vote for Hillary in the primary because they feel that she would be easier to defeat in the general election that Obama.

Wow. Those numbers might actually mean something to me if the state wasn't going to vote Republican in November anyway.

It's always disappointing to me when a Democrat lets emotion get in the way of intellectual honesty. How anyone can think that Obama is unelectable versus McCain, when every purported flaw that Obama has is trumped by the same flaw in McCain on a much larger scale, is beyond me.

The polls don't seem to support this, either, because Obama consistently does better against McCain than Clinton does...and bottom line, I have confidence that most of the 70% of Americans who disapprove of the Iraq War are going to vote for the candidate who DIDN'T offer up the promise of "100 years" in Iraq or "Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran."

It also disturbs me to see any Democrat fall for the Rev. Wright business. Not only is the Wright controversy based on a gross misrepresentation of Wright's POV, but it is also a slap in the face to a solidly mainstream American progressive Christian denomination. Plus, it's childish to boot--"hey, you have a friend who said some jerky things, so you must be a jerk!" And that is somehow worse than the total fabrication of a personal experience with sniper fire in Bosnia?

hillary will win pa and wva and kentucky

...she probably will be very very close if not win Indiana as well

and puerto rico...the margins of her victories

will determine much

and then...if this party does NOT allow the florida and michigan voters to have their voice

...this nation will have truly "found itself coming around the corner"

...that's the real issue guys and girls...

it will spell the end of the democractic experiment...in the notion as a government ruled upon by "consent by the governed..."

it will no longer be a true democratic nation

but something hollow and a shell of itself
and that is the true thing to be afraid of

its been like that since 2000 in many ways...

and its been getting bad ever since the 68 assassinations of kennedy and king

but..to have the dem party head say..."primary elections are a bad thing..."

is just as sick as it gets guy

dean for napoleanic wars!!!

...i never thought this is the way democracy would come to an end fully....

and that i would be allive to witness this

hillary is not only carring the hopes of us supporters and the mid west and those latinos and those in the middle class and all of her supporters and citizens in califronia, new york and so many places...

but of the entire notion that a free and independent electorate is to have their nation pay attention to who is actually winning and winning seriously among ALL the states...in the union...

not just howard dean's "50 minus at least two or three or more"

...strategy

Have you actually listened to any of Rev. Wright's sermons in their entirety, or read any honest theological analyses of them?

I doubt it, or you wouldn't be pushing this meme of "hate speech from the pulpit," because you'd know the context, the true origins of the statements, and so forth. Rev. Wright was, after all, good enough to be invited to the Clinton White House for Bill's big "mea culpa" on Lewinsky, and he's someone who is well-respected in the most mainstream Midwestern theological circles.

Obama, of course, could be making hay out of HRC's association with the scary prayer group "The Family," but he's not.

In any case, I don't think the Rev. Wright story--which is an intellectually dishonest story at best--will have any legs in the general election. If it did, that would open the door for a "whose supporters have the most shocking soundbites?" back-and-forth with McCain, who really doesn't want to go there (Hagee, Robertson, et al).

Moreover, there are many American voters who really don't have any room to judge Obama for not leaving his church. For example, like millions of other Americans, I'm still a Catholic...but that doesn't mean I agree with covering up child molestation, or extreme pro-life wingnuttery, or even the ban on birth control.

We all hear things that range from annoying to outrageous at our places of worship, our jobs, our family gatherings--thankfully, most intelligent people can take the good and leave the bad behind.

And since you brought up Catholic Church - speaking as a non-practicing Catholic who grew up in Catholic schools & went to Church every Sunday, I vehemently disagree with the Church's stance on women in the Chruch, contraception, right to life/promotion of anti-abortion legislation as a political issue rather than a moral issue to be determined by individuals, the cover-ups over molestion. While I personally belive in the Bible and the basic tenets of Catholicism & Christianity, I will not be a part of a Church that stands for policies I find reprehensible.

Do I criticize those who remain and try to change the Church from within? Of course not. But sitting idly by while your pastor of 20 years makes comments you personally find outrageous and reprehensible and never addressing them until you are running for president... That to me signifies distancing yourself based on politcal expediency and a lack of character.

Dijamo,

Good points on Rev. Wright. Sadly, many people are blinded by sexism or clintonian hatred/jealousy and its hard for them to consider another viewpoint.

I'm a chicagoan and some tell me...well Rev. Wright isn't running for president. I told them get real. An advisor is generally someone looked up to, admired/revered/sometimes worshipped and depended on for advice, strategy and leadership. This applies to any level from grade school on up.

I've decided to NOT vote Obama under any circumstances because he is blocking revote efforts in Michigan/Florida. This is undemocratic and will practically guarantee a McCain or independent victory.

I'm also deeply disappointed with the vitriol of some obama supporters. Several of HIllary's prominent black supporters and superdelegates have received death threats. The media ignores this. If Obama can't get his supporters to be "nonviolent and civil", how am I supposed to trust him to help the world become less violent?
I won't even bring up his cousin, Raila Odinga!

Since Obama is so black power oriented, why should I trust America to his leadership. Dept of Defense said in 2006: 6510 blacks were killed by other blacks while 363 blacks have been killed in the war.

Blacks make up 13% of the population but account for half of all homicides. This is awful and we need to drastically reduce this. I would not put this responsiblity on his shoulder, but many blacks tell me they think he's the only person that can stop this. I told them, think again. Obama tried but could NOT stop the election violence in Kenya. I could go on and on.