Winning West Virginia is like winning a few rural counties in Ohio, PA or Indiana

Quixote1818

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Tue May-13-08 10:29 PM
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Winning West Virginia is like winning a few rural counties in Ohio, PA or Indiana

Edited on Tue May-13-08 10:32 PM by Quixote1818

Hillary won probably hundreds of rural counties in Indiana, Ohio and PA by 40 to 50%. West Virginia only stands out because it's its own state, it just doesn't have any large cities to offset the rural vote. For example she won Scott County in Indiana with a total of 78% to 22%. In reality her numbers in West Virginia are not any better than they were in Indiana's rural counties and she only won IA by 1% because its large cities offset the rural vote. Take away Indianapolis and Gary plus a couple more large cities and Indiana become WV.

In a nut-shell West Virginia is just a small road bump for Obama. It's OH and PA with no big cities.

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AllentownJake

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Tue May-13-08 10:31 PM
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1. Lets let West Virginia go

27 Super Delegates knew this was coming and endorsed him anyway. All the super delegates knew this was coming and one endorsed Hillary.

We are in fine shape.

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aquarius dawning

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Tue May-13-08 10:41 PM
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2. He lost Ohio and Pennsylvania too.

Are those just road bumps too?

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Quixote1818

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Tue May-13-08 11:17 PM
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3. He didn't lose them by 30% though because they had large cities to offset the vote

Edited on Tue May-13-08 11:18 PM by Quixote1818

Hillary's problem is that she can win rural, uneducated voters but she gets killed in big cities because she can't win educated voters. However as one moves West she loses both rural and urban voters.

And by the way, Hillary has hit quite a few more road bumps than Obama. A few huge potholes too.

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SoCalDem

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Tue May-13-08 11:28 PM
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4. Like being promoted to first-chair trombone

in the Titanic Band..on 4-12-14

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