40% Of West Virgina Voters Would Rather Have A Convicted Felon Be The Democratic Nominee Than Barack Obama

Not according to some internet poll but among actual voters in last night's primary.

Inmate 11593-051 in 2012!

The inmate, Keith Judd, is serving time at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas for making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999. With 93 percent of precincts reporting, Obama was receiving just under 60 percent of the vote to Judd's 40 percent.

For some West Virginia Democrats, simply running against Obama is enough to get Judd votes.

"I voted against Obama," said Ronnie Brown, a 43-year-old electrician from Cross Lanes who called himself a conservative Democrat. "I don't like him. He didn't carry the state before and I'm not going to let him carry it again."

When asked which presidential candidate he voted for, Brown said, "That guy out of Texas."

Judd was able to get on the state ballot by paying a $2,500 fee and filing a form known as a notarized certification of announcement, said Jake Glance, a spokesman for the Secretary of State's office.

How unpopular is Obama in West Virgina? Joe Manchin, a Democratic Senator from the state won't say who he voted for. So a guy running for re-election this year would rather leave open the possibility he voted for an imprisoned felon rather than his party's sitting President.

Judd actually won more than enough votes to get delegates to the Democratic convention in North Carolina but he didn't register any.

Speaking of this year's Democratic convention...the voters of North Carolina rewarded Obama's decision to have the convention in their state by ratifying his anti-same sex marriage position in their Constitution. Naturally this makes them bigots or something.

posted by DrewM. at 09:20 AM

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