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Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Obama gets beat by a federal inmate in the W. VA primary

In an embarrassment to President Obama, Federal Inmate No. 11593-051 – otherwise known as Keith Judd – won 10 counties and 41 percent of the vote in West Virginia’s Democratic presidential primary Tuesday.


This image shows federal prisoner Keith Judd at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Beaumont, Texas in this March 15, 2008 file photo.

Mr. Judd is incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana, Texas, where he is serving a 210-month sentence for extortion, according to The Charleston Gazette. Judd had paid the $2,500 filing fee and submitted a notarized “certificate of announcement” to appear on the ballot.
He is even qualified to have a delegate at the Democratic National Convention, because he won at least 15 percent of vote. However, no one has stepped forward to fill that role.
But those are just details. The Republicans are having a field day with this slap at the president. Mr. Obama is deeply unpopular in West Virginia and was already certain to lose the small mountainous state in November. But the fact that enough people bothered to turn out in an uncontested primary to register a protest against the incumbent is telling.
“Just how unpopular does someone have to be for this to happen?” says Joe Pounder, research director and deputy communications director at the Republican National Committee, in a statement.
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Thanks to Swamprat for the tip-off

4 comments:

  1. I guess West Virginians are not as stupid as depicted by various stereotypes. They know when to hold them and when to fold them. The rest of the country should wise up and follow suit.

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  2. The nimrods on the left are screaming racism, but how would it not be happening in Alabama or Louisiana if that was the case? I guess Barry O. Shouldn't have fucked with the coal mining industry if he wanted their vote.

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  3. Yep those west Virginians are a hell of alot smarter then ppl living on both coasts ......
    sorry Wirecutter.......

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  4. Obama got beat by Joe Dirt. Fucking classic!

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