The End Of The Obama Express = West Virginia Now And Later

He will not win the presidency if handed the nomination for one reason at least, that being the Mountaineer state will stop the train in it's tracks as no Dem president has been elected without this state. And because of his wife's offensive comments, and the Ranting Rev's obnoxious sermons along with his own "guns and religion" gaffe, they will send him and Michelle packing in the primary and the general election.

This is Hillary's only argument left and she is using it big time and will really float it out there if she gains an anticipated landslide victory in the upcoming primary.

Democratic country keeps its distance from Obama:
FT.com / World / US & Canada - "Like most people in Mingo County, West Virginia, Leonard Simpson is a lifelong Democrat. But given a choice between Barack Obama and John McCain in November, the 67-year-old retired coalminer would vote Republican.

“I heard that Obama is a Muslim and his wife’s an atheist,” said Mr Simpson, drawing on a cigarette outside the fire station in Williamson, a coalmining town of 3,400 people surrounded by lush wooded hillsides.

Mr Simpson’s remarks help explain why Mr Obama is trailing Hillary Clinton, his Democratic rival, by 40 percentage points ahead of Tuesday’s primary election in the heavily white and rural state, according to recent opinion polls.

A landslide victory for Mrs Clinton in West Virginia will do little to improve her fading hopes of winning the Democratic nomination, because Mr Obama has an almost insurmountable lead in the overall race. But Tuesday’s contest is likely to reinforce Mrs Clinton’s argument that she would be the stronger opponent for Mr McCain in November, and raise fresh doubts about whether the US is ready to elect its first black president."

Occupying a swathe of the Appalachian Mountains on the threshold between the Bible Belt and the Rust Belt, West Virginia is a swing state that voted twice for George W. Bush but backed Democrats in six of the eight prior presidential elections.

No Democrat has been elected to the White House without carrying West Virginia since 1916, yet Mr Obama appears to have little chance of winning there in November. Recent opinion polls indicate that Mrs Clinton would narrowly beat Mr McCain in the state but Mr Obama would lose by nearly 20 percentage points.

West Virginia is hostile territory for Mr Obama because it has few of the African-Americans and affluent, college-educated whites who provide his strongest support. The state has the lowest college graduation rate in the US, the second lowest median household income, and one of the highest proportions of white residents, at 96 per cent. continued

Buh Bye 'Bama as he will likely win the nomination and the Dems will cry from Jan 09 'til the cows come home that racism cost Obama the presidency, the exact reasoning they hope to use to goad all Americans to vote for the Make Believe Messiah or else.

Vote for him or you're a racist. They've already been using that mantra ad nauseum and this will continue right through the election and beyond you can bet.

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