West Virginia Primary Poll: What Will Be The Final Results?

With Clinton holding a huge lead in the latest West Virginia polls, her win there is all but assumed. One energetic Hillary supporter even suggested a 60-point margin tonight, a claim that the camp was eager to walk back.

So what should be expected tonight? Will Clinton meet the polls? Exceed them? Or will the declaration of Obama as the de facto nominee help him unexpectedly. Let us know your predictions for the West Virginia primary.

What will be the final result in tonight's West Virginia primary?

• Clinton by 0-10 points
• Clinton by 10-20 points
• Clinton by 20-25 points
• Clinton by 25-30 points
• Clinton by 30+ points
• An Obama upset
• Who cares? This race is over

Comments

[coolkraft]

only Hillary and her supporters care about this primary....there are always honkies who will not vote for Obama and they are the racists as well as older voters; sad to say

[TurnThePageGA]

As an 50 something African American man and Obama supporter I suggest you cool it with this kind of rhectoric. It is not helping.

[StandingStill]

Coolkraft is probably a Republican, I mean who else would use such a stupid word as "Honkies?" Republicans always try to divide, that's how you know they're Republicans.

OBAMA 08

[MJD615]

Nice sentiment. Honkies? I'd say you're the racist.

[oafishcad]

From reading over the posts it seems that Obama supporters think that Clinton supporters must be racist or they'd vote for Obama. Way to insult half the democrats in America. What are you thinking? The only thing worse than a sore loser is an arrogant winner deriding the supporters of the person who lost. Shame on every one of you. People voted for Hilary because they thought she'd be a better president. You might not agree, but supporting Hillary does not make me racist, stupid, uneducated, inbred or any of the other insults hurled. If you want Obama to win in November, as I do, you better stop. Obama supporters say they're so smart. Insulting jabs and arrogance are pretty stupid. I sure don't want President McCain, maybe you should stop helping to elect him.

[coolkraft]

I have found many women voted for her SIMPLY because she is a Woman and they want the first woman in the white house...NOT for her so called qualifications...she was first lady and if her name was not Clinton she would not have even been in this race...

[Cougarkj]

People making those distinctions are speaking more to Hillary's manipulation of racist sentiment to garner support for her campaign than to all of her supporters. You may not be a racist, but she has clearly made her pitch to those who are. Many of us denounced her as a candidate for her willingness to engage in this kind of political play. I count myself as one of them. As a New Yorker I have supported her in the past; I ABSOLUTELY will never do so again.

[bigbingtheory]

You obviously don't read very well if you came to those conclusions. And spare me, you DO NOT represent half the Democrats in America. And it's the Hilalry supporters, like yourself, that are enabling Mc Cain. We're just supporting the Democratic nominee.

[oafishcad]

I see you thought one more insult (you don't read well) was needed. Thank you for proving my point.

[mairs]

No, they're not insulting half the democrats in America. It's only meant to insult 95% of the whites in WV.

[riverhouse]

I don't think anyone is saying that all Clinton supporters are racists. Unfortunately, both of the Clintons and some of their supporters have made racist comments that have been disturbing and dismaying to many of us. And the demographic that Hillary herself claims is that of older women, with a high school education or less, making $30,000 per year or less. She claims the rural working class as her base. She has played to that voter. That's not to say only people fitting that group support her. I think it's clear Hillary is not going to be the nominee and we need to get busy denying the GOP the White House and the majority in both houses of Congress.

[Smirk]

SFW? Clinton needs to concede and work towards defeating the GOP in the fall. And yes, if Obama was in her place, I would want him to concede, too. I doubt the US can stand four more years of rampant Republican idiocy.

[eshalom]

The problem is that you're backing a candidate who is unqualified to be president in both experience and substance.

Hillary Clinton is better qualified to be president than either Obama or McCain, but it appears the Democrats are once going to pick another loser in the tradition of Kerry, Dukakis, and Carter.

What the heck - it's only the nation's welfare at stake.

[McFlipFlop]

There have been some very good articles about the 'experience' argument. Check out the one from Time magazine from March 10th. "Time on the job does not translate into superior performance."

"Experience never exists in isolation; it is always a factor that coexists with temperament, training, background, spiritual outlook, and a host of other factors. Character is your magic word it seems to me..." -- Presidential historian Richard Norton Smith.

Some of our greatest presidents did not have much 'experience' in terms of elected office.

Lincoln -- 8 years of state legislature, 2 years in the U.S. House
Teddy Roosevelt -- 2 years as Governor, half a year as V.P.
Franklin Roosevelt -- 2 years as state Senator, 4 years as Governor

Obama -- 8 years as state Senator, 3 years as U.S. Senator
Clinton -- 7 years as U. S. Senator

Character, beliefs, intention, temperament -- do you have the ability to look for these skills?

[HopeObama08]

They're not picking a loser since they're not picking Hillary. At this point, the best thing you can do to support your candidate is to help her pay off her debts. She can't even run a campaign. But she DOES have the money to pay them off though, thanks to Bill's speeches. How much did they get from those speeches again? "Just words" as Hillary say.
Hillary is dangerous. If she can lie, cheat and steal the way she is trying to get MI and FL all for herself, what is she capable of doing in the White House? We already know about Whitewater, Peter Paul... the sniper fires... Do I need to continue?
For those she certainly is experienced and qualified.

[CindyKay]

First of all She is No More Qualified than Obama .
Her Only True Claim to Experience is Her time in the Senate.
She was an Attorney & then she was First Lady when Her husband became Governor & again when He became President . That Is It !

If One more person comments on the Fact that She has been to 80 Countries I can counter that idiotic comment by stating that if You consider that Experience then there are thousands of Flight Attendants JUST AS QUALIFIED as Hil-LIAR-Y.

Get A Grip People ! Being the Wife Of Means NOTHING !

[mairs]

She's qualified? As the wife of.... Many years as the wife of.... certainly. While Obama pulled himself up by his own hard work, she floated in on Bill's tab, as the wife of a president. Those years are not her experience.

[bigbingtheory]

Excuse me?
You have to be pretty naive to think Obama is another Dukakis or Kerry. For starters people are actually excited about him. Obama has as much experience as countless others from Abe Lincoln to Bill Clinton. And the reason many support Obama is because the welfare of our country is at stake. You pompous a$s.

[Kanary]

Is no one seeing the bigger picture? Obama CANNOT defeat McCain.
http://my.opera.com/Vorlath/blog/2008/05/09/who-is-the-safe-choice-for-the-white-house

We Democrats have to look beyond the primaries to the stark November reality.

I was a McGovern enthusiast. Everyone thought he'd sweep, and guess what? He couldn't do it with just the intelligentsia. One of the reasons he lost was he lacked support from the very states that Clinton can deliver. Drop the finger-pointing and look at the numbers. I challenge you!

[luvthelaw]

Kanary, please remember this is a primary and votes gained in a primary are meaningless for the general. You may have been a McGovern enthusiast, but I remember the campaign and I don't recall everyone thinking he would sweep the nation. I remember a hardcore group of young people who worked very hard and were shocked that he lost. However, this is not the same campaign and it is not the same base of support. Obama has proven he can draw from a wide base, can raise money and has a whole range of issues. McGovern was primarily a 1 issue candidate. The country has been profoundly changed in the years since McGovern ran - some better, some worse, but you can't compare the two elections.

[jah2008]

HuffPo, why are you not reporting this story? This is truly disturbing.

Racism alarms Obama's backers
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24588813

This type of atrocious acts must be reported and condemned!

[iPolitics]

Are you really that shocked? There is a percentage of the population that is hate-filled. We know he won't win those groups led by Sean "Hangs with Neo-Nazi's" Hannity and Rush "Drug Addict" Limbaugh.

[jah2008]

No, I'm not shocked. No one needs to remind me of the fact that there are people like that in this country. In fact, there are people like that all over the world.

I'm shocked at the fact that the story is not being reported. I suspect that Obama camp doesn't want this to dominate the news and wants to stress the positive side instead of the negative, but it saddens me nonetheless.

[Pammy1151]

I JUST WANT TO SCREAM AT THESE PEOPLE HEY THIS MAN IS HALF WHITE. WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT THIS??????

[marc1antony]

SAD but it's a fact that some people don't see him as being white at all, never mind that he never grew up black. Being raised in the islands and in a white household... go figure, you just can't change the ignorant mindset of some people.

[bitabingbitabangbitaboom]

They also hung John Brown..............least we forget!

[mairs]

It's the one drop rule. He is "contaminated" by black blood. And he looks black to boot. That's also held against him. If he looked like his mother no one would care. Come to think of it, let Hillary have WV if that's her demographic. She wouldn't have gotten a second look if there were still a white man in the race. They would have dropped her like a hot potato. Second largest prejudice... women!

[IngeniousGirl]

Consider the source - Kevin Merida an African American journalist who writes for the Style section and his book - Supreme Discomfort, The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas, Written by Kevin Merida and Michael Fletcher. Clarence Thomas declined to be interviewed by either of this African American journalists, one a lawyer. For Kevin's story there are 100 more positive stories than this, he is just using the fear card.

[bigbingtheory]

I'm sorry are you dismissing the source because he wrote an unflattering book on Clarence Thomas of which he refused to be interviewed for?
That lends to the sources credibility, not the other way around. Of course Clarence thomas didn't talk to black people, he's self loathing.

[ankjack]

I just read a disturbing bit of information. In West Virginia they are turning some people away from the polls for not having appropriate ID. The state apparently does not have hard and fast rules for ID but they are taking the hard line today. First time voters cannot use Student IDs, hmmm, I wonder why they are being so hard on that front? Guess they are really trying to make sure that 80-20 comes true.

[DevyneOne]

Not to worry. Obama has launched the 50 state initiative for voter registration, and all the nuts and bolts of each states' voting laws will be made known to all the citizens. It sucks for now, but it will be fixed in November!

[jpcline004]

I love it. The campaign that said small states (like mine - MD) were irrelevant is now lauding WV as its saving grace. GIVE ME A BREAK.

[Aleka4]

Heck, my state isn't even that small but we didnt' count either, because we caucus!

[V4Vigilance]

As the most popular choice in the poll so eloquently puts it, "Who cares? This race is over."

That's said, it saddens me to see all the bigoted comments about WV and KY. I'm truly hoping that the people making them are GOP trolls trying to make HuffPo look bad, not Obama supporters. If there's been an overarching theme that's differentiated Obama's campaign from Clinton's, it's that every voter in every state matters. Insulting the voters of these two states isn't going to help Obama beat John McSame in Nov.

I see this like the final round of a prize fight. Hillary will get in a couple of parting shots (WV, KY, maybe PR) but she's been beaten. The decision will go to the judges (aka super-delegates) who will look at Obama's lead in pledged delegates, super-delegates, popular vote, states won and fund raising and award him the nomination that he's earned.

OBAMA/RICHARDSON 08

[jeffp26]

The final results? Easy. Obama by a landslide.

[Charmed]

I'm sure not all people in WV and Kentucky are racist but they do appear to have a large amount of racist people in these two states. None of the other states seemed to be as proud of being racist as the people giving interviews from these places. I would never go to either one of these states.......

[MJD615]

Good. I'm sure neither state will miss you. After all, everyone in those states that doesn't vote for Obama is a racist. The more Obama supporters yell racist and race traitor, the more certain I am I will never vote for Obama.

[mikeant50]

So long, it's been good not to know you.

[PrObama29]

How's the trailer park treating you? Hey, I'll see you at the raving snake handlers meeting on sunday!

[hugs4u]

I bet you live in an old trailer, too.

[BeyondTheBull]

MJD615, I read your profile. There's hope for you. In the beginning, I preferred Hillary; probably more name recognition than anything else. It wasn't until after she lost her front-runner position that the venom surfaced, and has remained. When comparing INTEGRITY between Hillary and Obama, Obama clearly stands out. Clinton's venom and lack of integrity during this campaign will be a part of her legacy.
It looks like the Rev Wright "issue" was a turn-off for you. Why? Would you like to be judged based on what your minister, or President, says? The Catholic Church’s long legacy of supporting its priest’s molestation of young boys is well known. Do you condemn the 1 Billion Catholics that still practice that faith, and attend the churches of those molesters?
Think about it ... please.

[KillTheMessenger]

The result is that Senator Obama wins the primary.

[NABNYC]

To paraphrase Hillary Clinton,


John McCain has successfully run many campaigns, including this one for president, and has apparently locked up his party's nomination;

Barack Obama has successfuly run many campaigns, including this one for president, took a courageous stand against the war and stood by it despite the possible negative political consequences, has inspired the nation, has increased the interest of the world in our political system, has raised more money from small donors than any other candidate ever did allowing him to reject the bribes from lobbyists and the corporate elite, has brought millions of new voters to register, and has apparently locked up his party's nomination;

And Hillary Clinton gave a couple of speeches in West Virginia.

[CindyKay]

ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!!! Awesome !

[DennyCrane]

Along with the usual questions, the exit polls should also ask the following:

Do you think Obama is a Muslim?
Do you think all Muslims are terrorists?
Do you think Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11?
Do you dislike people who went to college?
Do you think America is a Christian nation?
Do you believe everything in the Bible?

Chances, everyone who votes for Clinton will answer yes to these questions. What's also true is that these people would feel more at home in the Republican Party.

[112985]

yes.yes!!!!!!

[era996]

Denny,
I don't care if he is muslim, he is not qualified to be president
Very few muslims are terrorists
Sadam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11
I love people who went to college, and loved most of women in college
America is secular country
I don't believe in the bible, or quran for that matter, I don;t even believe in god
i do believe that you need a reality check
And NO I will not vote for Obama. Will vote McCain now, Hillary in 2012

[Veman]

Wow - era996 - I hope you're vehemently pro-life cuz a vote for McCain will, in all likelihood, undo Roe v. Wade - even in cases of rape and/or incest and a vote for Hillary in 2012 will not change that - cuz the 2 Supreme Court appointments McCain will make as President will be for life and FOR LIFE not CHOICE.

[PrdAmerican]

And to those who vote McCain I ask but one question; Who do you hate more, Obama or your children?

With McCain, he will stack the supreme court and tilt it fully conservative resulting in overturning Roe V. Wade...way to stick it to your daughters and granddaughters.

With McCain, he has stated he WON"T leave Iraq which means I hope you support the draft that will be necessary to get more troops to fight the endless wars he proposes?

With McCain, the new healthcare plan for most families and children will be prayer. Hope you're a believer.

With McCain, he will continue the notion that socialized economics is good for the country, and borrowing from China even better. Hope you have brushed up on your Mandarin.

With McCain your children had better think hard about what they want for a career, because without any changes to NAFTA or companies that offshore jobs, there won't be many careers to be had.

With McCain your children will learn that big business comes before the American Family.

Voting for McCain because your candidate didn't win the democratic primary is the same as holding yoru finger up to your children and saying "Screw You".

[TexasDem0]

Era996, Barack Obama is not qualified to be president, but John McCain is? Good one!

[jpcline004]

I like how you negate each comment, but say "I don't care if he is Muslim" and not "I know he is not a Muslim".

I am guessing you are just one of the many trolls thinking you can split up the party. But, if you are seriously a Clinton supporter and will vote for McCain than please register as an independent as you have no business being in the Democratic party.

I was going to vote for Nader up until about 2 days before the 2000 election. My mother said any self respecting liberal would do whatever they can to keep a Republican out of the Whitehouse, even if it meant voting for someone they don't like. This goes for all of us, even though I don't care for Sen Clinton I would still take her any day over McCain.

[Aleka4]

Holy cow...you really don't look in a mirror, do you?

Why is the guy who ran a stunning campaign and won against all odds LESS qualified than the person with ALL the advantages, who squadered her lead and all her money, had no "plan B" and totally miscalculated?

You have a funny idea about "qualified". It seems you desire INcompetence in a president - so I guess then that you are a republican who voted Bush x2.

[oafishcad]

If you think Hillary supporters will be more comfortable in the GOP, then Obama will lose in November and shouldn't be the nominee. If you accept the support and votes of Hillary supporters, Obama will win and should be the nominee. What part of that do the Obamabots not understand?

[bigbingtheory]

Well, how do you answer those questions? Frankly I don't want anyone who answers yes to most of those questions in the Democratic Party.

[thromulese]

You sir are putting millions of people into a category they do not belong in.

The people of California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York all favored Hillary over Obama (by big margins). Your comments are as bigoted and hateful as you claim those who vote against Obama are. And in doing so YOU come off as a bigoted republiCON.

So you actually believe that everyone that voted for Hillary believes saddam is behind 911? Are you crazy? I and many of my friends and family voted for Hillary, and none of us believe that ridiculous statement. This in and of itself disproves your silly claim.

The only thing that you are right about is that someone that would answer yes to these stupid questions is indeed a republiCON. Like yourself perhaps.

[editorjuno]

All kidding aside, I know of a septuagenarian laid-off coal miner in WV who doesn't believe Saddam Hussein was behind the 9/11 atrocities -- as a matter of fact, he's absolutely sure "them Mexicans" were the culprits! Honestly, I kid you not -- and yes, I do know that not everyone in WV is that ignorant, but that doesn't mean people like him are uncommon, and they vote.

[ProfEvil]

Any margin beyond 20 points will definitely make the people from WV look bad- that is the way I see.
This particular election in WV is not referendum on Obama or Clinton, it is referendum on the people of WV.
If this election were conducted at an earlier stage with the race still a toss up, a 20-30 points victory for Senator Clinton would have been an acceptable result. As we have it now, it is different, there is a presumptive nominee and for that nominee to lose by a larger than 20 points makes you wonder what is at play. You beg to wonder what the psyche of the people in WV is?

[ryanjones2006]

Perhaps it means the residents of WV would like to have their voices heard and not conform to what people in previous states have said. We're voting for who we think will be the best able to win in November and who will be the best leader, we aren't voting to please other democrats, whom 95% have already voted and apparently with very divided way as we will today.

[KillTheMessenger]

Perhaps most of you are just a little bit wrong. And perhaps some of you are just a little bit racist. It does not matter much what you think of yourself. The damage is in how the outside world sees you.

[2008thankyou]

Conform, why do you automatically make the assumption that those who vote for Barack are conforming.?

I personally spent time looking into what lesiglation he has written, co-sponsored and passed. What laws he has has passed, what accomplishments he has actually made.

Not just taken the word of Hillary that he is inexperienced because we don't know him like we know the former Wife of a President.

Fact is both are qualified, both have been elected officials for about the same time, both agree on most things, both have the same policies.

People who will vote for McCain other than Barack are doing it for one of two reasons.

1) They're to apathetic and complacent to actually take the time to find out about the candidate.

2) They are prejudice.

Cut off your nose to spite your face, how ignorant!

[tipiglen6]

It may be worth noting that No Democrat has won the presidency without winning WV since the Great Depression.....
http://www.lewrockwell.com/englund/englund16.html

This year may change that.

[Gemma08]

Indeed.

[iWabiSabi]

It's also worth noting that Jimmy Carter didn't win the WV Democratic Primary, but won in the general election. Senator Obama could do the same thing even if he loses today's primary.

Aside from George W. Bush's defeat of Al Gore in 2000, no non-incumbant Republican has won WV in 75 years. Voter registration is 70-30 Democrat and Republicans rarely win statewide elections here.

Gore's environmental record and his complacency as a candidate doomed his WV campaign in 2000. There's an excellent chance that WV turns blue again this fall.

[furion4865]

WV is Hillary's demographic, poor and uneducated white folks, those folks would stop going to church if they found out Jesus was black, oh wait a minute, Jesus was from the Middle East with skin the color of brass and hair like lamb's wool, I guess the myth of a blue-eyed blonde haired Jesus is as dead as Hillary's campaign.

[ryanjones2006]

It's appalling anyone would actual look to insult an entire state of people because of a geographic residence. I live in WV, I'm not racist, I'm white, I'm 19, I'm an Atheist, but I support Clinton because I like some experience. I've support Hillary way before Obama entered the race.

[NightRider]

The race is over so what is your vote? A statement vote? America wants to know.

You believed that 35 years of experience, correct?

And all the endorsements Obama received is because he has no experience. Correct?

God bless you!

[skepticalindenver]

Not a racist......white......19.....Atheist....WV resident


ummmmm..........Voting because of Clinton's experience? Add gulible and uneducated to that list of descriptors.

[KillTheMessenger]

Jesus was a terrorist. At least if you believe the documents of the occupying force, the Western superpower of its day which spent a fortune to secure the Middle East for questionable economic gains and experienced a steep decline and essentially complete destruction at the hands of people from the Far East. Wait a minute... that's just like us! Except that we won't be able to hold out for another four centuries like the Romans.

[ceesaw]

No, we are not trying to insult an entire state.We are simply reacting to the comments made by a lot of people from your state that they will not support a Black Candidate.To these people issues do not matter.They simply cannot get past skin color.Your candidate,senator clinton herself said she has the support of hard-working white people. At first she was using the code.Blue-collar workers, finally she broke the code herself. Ed Rendell said White people in small town PA will not vote for a Black Candidate. Therefore the victory tonight supports the statements. Now you talk about the experience of senator clinton,Really! WHAT EXPERIENCE? She makes up her experiences as she goes along. Infact, the Titanic was built by experienced professionals.She is claiming her 8 years of first lady as a copresident. Well I'm sure the BUTLERS, MAIDS, GARDERNERS ,COOKS that were working in the white house during those 8 years should become candidates also. They too have 8 yrs. of experience.

[112985]

That was ugly to say, Obama is not ready all he talks about is change he cannot change america!!!! I will never vote for him!!!

[SanityNowPlease]

then you must be republican.

[hugs4u]

Might be ugly, but so true.

[ErnestineBass]

Still doing your laundry on a washboard, 112985?

[bigbingtheory]

And you know this how? What do you base your asinine assumption on?

[DevyneOne]

Granted, some the comments have been ugly here--from "Obama-bots" and "Clinton-ites" alike--but what makes you say he is not ready? Consider this:

Obama -- 8 years as state Senator, 3 years as U.S. Senator
Clinton -- 7 years as U. S. Senator
By the math, Obama actually has MORE experience. Now, you can throw her First Lady years in there if you like, but I ask you this: would you hire the wife of a plumber to unclog your sink?