Reply #30: Kentucky is the one that really jumps out at me [View All]

[terrell9584]

Because it is a state Clinton won, a state Carter won in 76 and almost won in 80, a state Humphrey would have won if Wallace had not been taking union votes away from him in 68, a state that has only had one Republican governor in the last six decades, and a state where local politics in many counties are controlled at the Democratic primary level.

You would expect a McCain type to do well here, but the drop off between Clinton and Obama, the fact that she could actually win here (and polls from the fall had her winning here), it says something dramatic. Something really dramatic. That's why the primary has gone on as long as it has, the electoral map that each brings to the table