Clinton Puts a Whuppin On

Submitted by politicalWinters on Wed, 05/14/2008 - 6:16am.

As expected, Hillary Clinton easily won the West Virginia primary - and with a big number.

She ended up with about 68 percetn of the popular vote, one of her biggest margins.

But it's not all rosy. She still lags behind Obama in total pledged delegates, superdelegates, and in the popular vote. She's also bleeding money. But what it does show is that Barack Obama still has a major flaw with certain voters - primarily white, lower income.

Quote: Clinton's victory in West Virginia may fuel her argument that Obama isn't a viable general election candidate. The Mountain State has many of the white, Southern, rural, older, low-income and low-education voters who have flocked to Clinton's presidential candidacy in previous contests.

In a troubling sign for Obama, barely half of lower-income, low-education voters in the state said they'd vote for him in November if he's the party's nominee, according to preliminary exit poll results..

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