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Subscribe to RSS“Uncommitted” in Kentucky and an opponent in Arkansas got about 40% of the vote in the Democratic primaries last night against President Obama. This comes a week after West Virginia Democrats gave about 40% of the vote to a man who was a convicted felon serving time in prison in another state. The Republican National Committee is doing a social media push today with new “Fired up! Ready to go! Uncommitted” buttons.
But none of this should be all that surprising. Obama struggled in the Democratic primaries in 2008 in Appalachia, and it was his worst area of the country in the general election.
“How often I heard it said, ‘Nobody likes change but a baby with a dirty diaper,’” William Turner, chairman of Appalachian Studies at Berea College, told West Virginia public radio in 2008 after Obama’s loss to Hillary Clinton in the primary. “So this kind of change is maybe just a little too much for people to absorb.”
Turner, who grew up in Harlan County, Kentucky, added, “I don’t think Barack could have in the short time he had change these long-standing stereotypes of black people or Appalachia. So what we need is just more education, more interaction, people getting to know each other better. And if he did nothing else but held up a mirror so we see ourselves better than we did last week, that’s good that he did that.”
The piece interviewed several people who invoked Obama’s race and suspicions about his religion for not being open to voting for him, and one man who voted for Clinton couldn’t even recall her name.
The Washington Post editorial page says Obama is trying to have it “both ways on private equity” and thinks his “vampire” ad goes too far: “What we’re left with is a president who seems content to present an even-handed view of private equity at his news conferences while propounding a much more tendentious one in his campaign advertising. Pointing out that a business career hasn’t fully prepared Mr. Romney to be president, in other words, is a long way from suggesting that he’s a vampire.”
Bloomberg: “From extra shifts at auto and steel plants in Ohio to office buildings rising in Northern Virginia, the geography of the U.S. economic rebound is providing an edge to President Barack Obama’s re-election. The unemployment rates in a majority of the 2012 battleground states are lower than the national average as those economies improve.”
Of course, as NBCPolitics.com’s Michael O’Brien wrote earlier this month, the recoveries in those states have been uneven.
The Boston Globe’s Johnson: Vice President Joe Biden today laced into the Republican Party and its presumptive presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, saying its Tea Party faction had blocked progress by President Obama while Romney wants to take the country back to recessionary practices.
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Of cooooourse, they are deep red neck states! What else would you expect from people with extremly low IQs???
there are no expectations of you...
Gee Bev you are going to insult 3 entire states? Really? It will be interesting to see how many more "deep redneck states" we have in America by the time the primary is over.
So says Turner, the Chairman of Applachia Studies!.....Stereotype = bigot!
This is a total embarassment: basically what AR and KY are saying to the rest of the world is that our process is incompetent in verifying a birth of one man.
We have the best intelligence in the world but somehow President Obama was able to pull off printing a birth certificate and getting away with becoming a President when not eligible.
96
Hopefully all of them. But we know the huge cities and their superior intelect will do democrat. They always do. Not because of my sarcastic reasons but because they are stupid and lazy and want free stuff. Cant even get out of rising water and scream help did not come soon enough. You can't fix stupid and you can't change stupid and lazy from voting Democrat. They go together.
Sorry to inform you 96ws6, but the primaries have been over for some time.
These states and the other redneck states vote how their major employer tells them to vote. Take Ar. NW Ar. votes how Wal-Mart tells them to vote. See it's the corporations that run these state governments, that's why their wages are lower than the states that the people run the government. I lived in Ar. and these people and I'm sure people in Ky. like to be told what to do.
Obama showed his contempt for mid-America four years ago. This post indicates clearly that his supporters feel exactly the same. I hope the "poor rural" people that they ridicule so cruelly, are not going to be fooled by Obama's condescending "folksy down-home" acts, or the feigned sympathy of the liberal elite.
"Rural" is NOT synonymous with "stupid" and they show far more honesty and common sense than delusional liberals! Obama showed his contempt for mid-America four years ago when he said, "And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Jusy how stupid are you Beverly in Chicago ? It's without question that you're stupid, but of how stupid you are.
Mo,
You ARE a funny one.
Here are the states that have not yet held their Democratic primary elections.
Tue., May 29, 2012
Texas
primary
Tue., May 30, 2012
Delaware
caucus
Tue., June 5, 2012
California
primary
Tue., June 5, 2012
Montana
primary
02012-06-05Tue., June 5, 2012
New Jersey
primary
153
19
172
02012-06-05Tue., June 5, 2012
New Mexico
primary
39
11
50
Tue., June 5, 2012
South Dakota
primary
As usual, you don't know what you're talking about.
These folks would vote against Abraham Lincoln. Their ancestors did.
A person doesn't necessarily need to have a low I.Q. to be a racist. Pat Buchanan isn't stupid, for instance.
Being from Appalachia also doesn't mean you're racist or dumb. Robert Byrd was one of the smartest men in congress, though he was raised in a racist society.
WOW bev you're a retard !
I hate to say it, but this is probably why most of us have no intention of living in or visiting Appalachia. FDR tried to save them. RFK brought attention to them, and this is the thanks the Democrats get.
Hope you have no intention of visiting Kentucky or Arkansas either. I wonder how many states you will have to add to your list by the time the election is over.
Been to both. I even saved some red dirt from Kentucky. I just don't understand you any more than I understand UK basketball.
We all know it will be the same ones it's been for years 96ws6. It just won't be enough for Romney to win, in fact (and I know the word fact really makes you angry) President Obama will win by a landslide.
Mo
You mean "facts" like the primaries are already over? Facts are not the same as predictions and personal opinions MO
Since you obviously have never looked it up here is the definition for you:
Fact is defined as "a quality of being actual; a piece of information being presented as having objective reality"
So Bev using that analogy how do you explain the Clintons from Arkansas.
every rule has an exception.
Looks like there are plenty of Americans besides West Virginians that are not happy with the president. Like the article says this is "not a surprise"
If you are not happy with a politician, don't vote for him. But don't come up with some ignorant scheme to keep him off the ballot. That is just desperate and craps all over our democratic process.
Trouble for you tea people Koch republicans is there are more Americans that can't stand Romney. Like the majority of the country says, "not a surprise".
“How often I heard it said, ‘Nobody likes change but a baby with a dirty diaper,’” William Turner, chairman of Appalachian Studies at Berea College, told West Virginia public radio in 2008 after Obama’s loss to Hillary Clinton in the primary. “So this kind of change is maybe just a little too much for people to absorb.”This is a kind way of saying that all those states are filled with poorly educated racists too stupid to see that voting against their economic self interest is exactly what the Koch's and Romney's of the world want. The wealthy understand that if they keep people in the dark and feed them BS that they can keep them from demanding public services and infustructure upgrades and the higher tax rates to achieve those goals thus creating jobs.
Amen! @Greg-1051103....Well put, and unfortunately so true. Folks voting against their own best interest.
God forbid any one from any state say anything bad about obama. To hell with those who disagree or don't like the man. Progressives are the only logical ones in the room and everyone else is wasting their air.
Mo,
You never respond to comments you make, when confronted.
Bev,
you could careless about anyone but you and yours. So why comment on those who don't follow your messiah. You don't care so why? Does it make you feel empowered or above those dirty red necks.
It is time for the left to come down from the ivory tower and face the facts that obama is not doing very well.
May be a hard pill to swallow.
Obama's problem here is not KY or WVA. Romney's gonna win those. His problem is that OH, VA AND PA contain large swaths of Appalachia. How large? According to the Federal Gov't's Appalachian Regional Commission the number of counties that are part of Appalachia in these three crucial states are as follows:
Ohio - 32
Virginia - 25 counties and 8 cities
Pennsylvania - 52 (almost as many as the 54 Appalachian counties in Kentucky)
Romney's gonna hit Obama HARD on coal in these areas. If Obama loses PA he's finished. The folks at the WH are in deep trouble and they know it.
Going to Arkansas and West Virginia is for Obama, going to a Klan-destined location.
The ONLY people insulting these States are their OWN citizens. How can you seriously follow the GOP model of voting for a convicted felon, and expect NOT to be the laughingstock of the country. You HAVE TO BE completely mentally deficient to even consider it, which is what the GOP/Teaparty flock are once again proving they are!
I thought all the white, redneck, racist Democrats fled for the GOP after LBJ.
Mo-1852032 if you believe half of what you said you're a bigger retard than bev !