Some exit polls >>>

[El Supremo]

(CNN) – The vast majority of Hillary Clinton supporters in Kentucky are not willing to support Barack Obama should he win the party’s nomination, a sign of the continuing division in the Democratic Party as the primary race comes to a close.

According to the just released exit polls, only 33 percent of Clinton backers said they would vote for Obama should he be the party’s nominee. That compares to 71 percent of Obama supporters who say they are willing to support Clinton if she wins the nomination.

Those numbers are even worse for Obama than in West Virginia one week ago, where 36 percent of Clinton voters said they would back Barack Obama in fall.

As for the Clinton backers in Kentucky, 41 percent of them say they will back McCain if Obama is the Democratic nominee, 23 percent said they won’t vote at all, and 3 percent said they would vote for other candidates.

Among Obama supporters in Kentucky, 14 percent said they would back McCain, 11 percent said they would not vote in the general election, and 4 percent said they would vote for other candidates.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

[NightWatcher]

1. another exit pole

[jackpan1260]

2. Operation Chaos!

MSM better enjoy the whole "Obama can't connect with whites" myth today, because Oregon, Montana and Dakota won't give them much material to work with.

[skooooo]

5. those aren't the "hard working" white people, tho..

lol

[MindMatter]

22. Why don't we say it the way it is?

Obama can't connect with ignorant white racists from the confederacy.

I don't know what's so difficult to understand about that, or why it would be surprising to anybody.

[Skip Intro]

27. I wonder what you'd be saying if he was winning KY.

[MindMatter]

28. I'd say the racists stayed home.

We should all be thankful that the KKK didn't get the candidate they wanted.

[SunDrop23]

3. About this statement...

"The vast majority of Hillary Clinton supporters in Kentucky are not willing to support Barack Obama should he win the party’s nomination..."

To hell with each and every one of you.

[gateley]

I agree -- fuck 'em.

We just have to make sure Obama gets OVERWHELMING support on election day.

[anigbrowl]

9. Yeah, that 41% figure's a bit much. People not voting, I disagree but respect. GOP? Ew.

[NJmaverick]

4. Is Kentucky an open primary? In other words are republicans allowed to register and vote

in the Dem's primary?

[PM7nj]

11. No, you had to be a registered Dem by January.

[NJmaverick]

17. OK, thanks

[cali]

we'll see. this is not only the heat of the campaign talking

but the dawning realization that hillary has lost, fed by the rhetoric from hillary and bill and surrogates, strongly suggesting that she's been done wrong and cheated out of the nomination.

hillary clinton has an inescapable obligation to make this right.

[Arugula Latte]

6. Screw those ignorant asshats. We will win without them in the fall.

[4_Legs_Good]

7. Newsflash! Democrats may lose Kentucky in November

More at 11.

[ErinBerin84]

8. I knew exactly what this "exit poll result" would be when I saw the subject

This is the one that CNN salivates over, especially Wolf Blitzer. I'm glad to see that Obama supporters are willing to vote for Hillary if she becomes the nominee. Though I suspect the numbers would be a lot higher if they thought that there was an actual possibility that they might have to, but hopefully they would still be all about the unity.

[DerekJ]

10. Those ones that says they will back McCain should Obama win the nomination, will back McCain even

if hillary wins.

[shadowknows69]

12. More proof that ultimately the human race is too stupid to exist.

[cbc5g]

13. again like in west virginia

"only 33 percent of Clinton backers said they would vote for Obama should he be the party’s nominee. That compares to 71 percent of Obama supporters who say they are willing to support Clinton if she wins the nomination."


this is evidence of a large voting block of racist/nativist appalachian voters who will not vote for a black man for president. There really is nothing he can do to get their vote so he may as well just write them off for the election and focus on the rest of the country that has progressed more on race.

[ossman]

14. Im kinda sick of Appalachia (sp?) about now. We get it. You hate Obama for whatever reason. Buh Bye

[damntexdem]

This suggests what we knew all along:

there are more idiots among HRC supporters than among Obama supporters, but some (way too many) in both 'camps.'

[moondust]

15. Democrats trying to coerce Democrats.

They can kick and scream all they want. Especially when Roe v. Wade goes down.

[Imagine My Surprise]

16. I live in Louisville, and there are a lot of "Hillary" supporters who are basically DINOS...

I will say that my mother who is almost 70 and is a registered republican HATES McCain -- AND she is voting for Obama in the GE.

[road2000]

21. I live in Covington

and I don't know even one Hillary voter who would not support Obama.

Like yours, my lifelong Republican mother (almost 89) now, is voting for Obama in the GE.

[musicblind]

18. 67% of Hillary Supporters wont vote for Obama in the fall?

I'm a Hillary Supporter, but what they hell is WRONG with these people??? That number cannot actually be accurate. There is no way.

[writes3000]

24. There is a lot of resentment and racism in the South...

I don't believe all of these voters are racist. But I believe a bigger than normal percentage are swayed by racist feelings.

It's sad but it's a legacy of slavery and the civil war.

[jsmirman]

19. Which is exactly why Obama is more presidential. Way to lead your supporters into a petulant protest

that could lose us this incredibly important election, Hillary. I mean, hasn't that been the point of all her bullcrap these past weeks post-Indiana???

[cbc5g]

20. so what this also says is...

obama democrats care more about the party being elected then hillary democrats? Or maybe they are bitter and clinging to their candidate?

[Arugula Latte]

23. What the hell are you talking about?

:wtf:

[izzie]

25. I can believe it. I once lived in the South.

Some of the old stuff is hard for people to give up plus I think in the Mt. parts you find a lot of sort of old style people who have a hard time getting up to date. Fact is you find that type people every place. We may think it best to live with-in our times but their are always the people who hold off and fight every thing new or different. I am an old lady and have seen that my whole life. On the whole I think Am. is a country that looks for the new. I also think young people forget how near we are to some really old time thinking. It is hard to give it up plus it gets handed down. Some parts of the country are really hang ons to old style thinking where you would not vote for a man who's skin is not the same as theirs. Crazy but there it is. It is a wonder they will go for a women. In the general election I am sure, even if Hillary got it, they would vote for McCain. They would feel at ease with a 'white man'. I would think a lot of this vote is not for Hillary but to show how the feel for Obama. Heck I got out of high school in the 50's and had a girl in my class that had never been out of the state and we were 12 miles from NH. She said she saw no reason to go out as the town had every thing she needed. Now to be 18 and think like that tells one some thing about people.

[Upton]

26. Kentucky Hillary supporters are not real Democrats

How else do you account for only 33 percent of Clinton backers saying they would vote for Obama in the GE?