Kentucky Clinton backers inch toward Obama

[MissWaverly]

Clinton, after all, received more votes in Kentucky in the May 20 primary than eventual Democratic nominee Barack Obama and Republican candidate John McCain combined (459,511 for Clinton, 209,954 for Obama and 142,918 for McCain). Granted, the GOP primary was all but over by the time Kentuckians went to the polls, but it's hard to deny that Clinton supporters are a sizable force in the Bluegrass state.

Casual Democrats might be persuaded by Palin's presence, said Tarpey. But not most Clinton supporters, she said.
"She doesn't have the same positions as Hillary," Tarpey said, pointing to Palin's rigid opposition to abortion rights and strong support for drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. "The whole thing about Hillary Clinton supporters voting for McCain, that's just something that the Republicans ginned up," said Susan Carson Lambert, 60, a farmer and renewable energy consultant from Lawrenceburg. Lambert was a rare Democrat who was still undecided in the days leading up to the May 20 primary.

She said last week she ended up voting for Clinton. And she said she expects many of the voters who stood up for their woman last spring to now stand by their party's man in November.

"Most people I know who I've had conversations with say, 'This is my party's candidate and I'm standing behind him,'?" she said.

http://www.kentucky.com/210/story/516635.html

[stolivodka]

1. Operation Chaos

KY is as out of play for us as CA is for them.

[MissWaverly]

2. Hillary had appeal in Kentucky

hoping that there is a shift toward the dems

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. !

[MissWaverly]

4. Yes, thinking that too, New Yorker has devestating cover

of John McCain playing McNopoly (Monopoly) with his wife in the background with a silver platter