Election results from West Virginia at 11:00 p.m. with 69% of the precincts reporting:
Clinton 66%; Obama 27%; Edwards 7%
Update: Election results from West Virginia at 7:00 am with 100% of the precincts reporting:
Clinton 67%; Obama 26%; Edwards 7%
Not since 1916 has a democrat won the White House without the help of West Virginians. Senator Hillary Clinton won West Virginia by a commanding lead today showing that she connects with blue collar workers and people in the Appalachian region of our country. Senator Barack Obama will need Senator Clinton by his side as his running mate this fall in order to win those states. Although he may have won most of the other states he can not take the White House without the help of this region of our country. The reporters can blame it on racism or lack of education but the people from that region of our country are far harder to describe and box up as just that simple or straight forward on issues.
In high school friends of mine drove off the KKK from our high school campus because they were outsiders and West Virginians don’t take kindly to being told what to think or how to react to their own people no matter what their skin color. Eastern Kentucky will have the same reaction as West Virginia when it comes to supporting a presidential candidate. You need to be able to connect to the local residents in order to get their support. Senator Obama is not connecting to the people in the Appalachian region. He may think it is their problem but in the end it could be his problem.
Devotion to family, country and basic moral values are common links in the Appalachian region. Children are protected and loved by their extended family. One thing you can say about growing up in that region of the country is that nothing gets past your family. You are watched from birth to death by family that live miles in every direction. Senator Obama will do well to consider his next move carefully if he wants to beat Senator McCain in the November election.
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C. S. Lewis
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"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die."
The O'Coilean (O'Collins)
'A great host with whom it is not fortunate to contend, the battle-trooped host of the O'Coileain."
Abraham Lincoln
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
From NPR Radio
"Rosa sat so Martin could walk.
Martin walked so Obama could run.
Obama ran so our children can fly!"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."
Unknown
"Friendship is loving someone no matter what is in their past. It is accepting the fact that they are human and that they have made their share of mistakes over a life time. Trust is being able to tell your friend the most private secret knowing that they will not judge you. A life is not lived well without that one true and trusted friendship."
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
"My job is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable"
Albert Einstein
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Will Rogers
"I don't belong to an organized party--I'm a democrat."
President John F. Kennedy, Democrat
“If by a ‘liberal’ they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people—their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties—someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a ‘Liberal,’ then I’m proud to say I’m a ‘Liberal.’”
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase."
Lora O'Brien
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C. S. Lewis
"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."
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