The whole point of having superdelegates is basically the same concept. They're an elite group that prevents any one group or faction from having too much sway over the nomination process, in this case, I think the supers are skewing away from Hillary's demographic.

I am a proud West Virginian who has a Master's degree in Severe and Profound Disabilities...thus, I am not stupid, as you imply all West Virginians are. It seems as though you could use my help as you come across sounding like a retard!

You cannot judge a whole state by a few uneducated residents. There are uneducated folks in every state.

Why are you Obama people so angry? And why are you so worried that, just maybe, Hillary will still pull it off and become the nominee? Looks like your paranoia is showing.

"You cannot judge a whole state by a few uneducated residents. There are uneducated folks in every state."
A few... According to the exit polls, they constituted 70%! And we're hearing that more than 20% admitted in exit polls that race was their decisive criterion and, given the Bradley effect, there's good reason to believe it was probably a whole lot more than that.
Then we read that in WV there are actually restaurants that not only refuse to serve, but get away with refusing to serve, African Americans.
The Democratic party and America should be held hostage to this?

This argument that you can't win the White House without WV is specious at best. If Obama can turn a mountain state like Colorado or New Mexico, it completely negates WV being in the Republican column.

Please give it up. West Virginians are no different than their fellow citizens in 49 other states. Like those other states, West Virginia has idiocy along side brilliance, ignorance right next to erudition, and bigotry in equal measure with human decency.

Exercise some human decency your self and simply find another reason to explain Barack Obama's loss here. There are plenty of them and none of them depend upon racism, which you can find in a 50 states.

Your facile resort to an imagined monopoly on ignorance and bigotry by West Virginians establishes the falsity of your assertion.

Go look in a mirror and assess how free of bigotry you are.

And this is from someone elected in a W. Va. county caucus to represent Obama at our state convention next month -- not a Hillary supporter, and not a Republican.

Please just give it up!

I don't know. West Virginia picked a pretty good president in 1960, when JFK won the primary victory over Hubert Humphrey that essentially clinched his nomination.

Unfortunately they picked a bad one in 2000. If Al Gore wins this traditionally Democratic state, we are all spared the Bush nightmare, Florida notwithstanding. This is a state that the 2008 Democratic nominee MUST campaign hard for, right there along with Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Maggi from WV,

The exit polls showed 70% uneducated. Not just a few. What is more important is the open hatred most "hard working white" WV voters have for people of color. The young white volunteers for Obama were cussed at while they were campaigning. Read the washington post for the article for detail. To me that is the uneducated attitude, not the fact that they were non college educated.

Maggi, If WV were a guy I would punch him in the face or run over him with my car. Maybe both. The order is not important.

Just kidding....Every state's got its bad apples. If there were more money, more educational opportunity, and simply more contact to the outside world you would have more of the pretensious pricks over there that think they're better than everyone simply because they were born somewhere affluent. It's almost a way of shitting on WV because it's poor. Racists and dummies aren't the only undesirables in my view.

For pete's sake. Leave WV alone. They've voted, they get to vote in November, and that's the way it should be.

Bussta, I don't disagree that there are ignorant racist rednecks in West Virginia (as there are elsewhere). I've been refused service there by some of them (something that has never happened to me anywhere else in North America, or the world). But not all of them are like that. And while I was there, I kept getting phone calls from New Yorkers, who invariably said, "What? You're in West Virginia? Why? They marry their sisters there, you know. It's like Deliverance." I really don't think that sort of talk helps anyone.

Look, Clinton won there, but our guy is winning overall. Their votes count for one each, just like ours. They can vote for whoever they want, for whatever reasons they want. Don't be a sore winner.

Bussta,
I agree with you about Terry McAuliffe and Lanny Davis. Everytime I watch Lanny Davis, especially, I seethe. I'm sorry, but the guy rubs me the WRONG way. I mean he really does. Terry McAuliffe hasn't been the same since he hasn't been the Chairman of the DNC. That's why they wanted him GONE and Dean IN. Because he was running the party in the ground with the same status quo. Dean came in and lifted the Party right back up, and he's been seething every since. I really think that Terry McAuliffe is pulling Hillary strings. Because it's his way of "sticking it" to the DNC and Dean.

West Virginia was a union state that reliably supported liberal and progressive policies until recently. The unions is this country have been eviscerated and the mining jobs in West Virginia have changed. Now mining increasingly means chopping the tops off mountains and poisoning the water tables. Obama probably was right (in Pennsylvania) in saying that folk in these locations don't continue supporting liberal politics when the bottom falls out. West Virginia is much more of an Evangelical right-wing Christian state than it was when the Democrats were winning it reliably. But insulting West Virginians isn't apt to win them back. We need to convince them that its in their self interest not to vote with the Bushes and Cheneys and McCains and Roves. We need to convince them that the Republicans aren't sincere when they talk about family values and that ethics do not call for voting Republican. Indeed, just as the Republicans have succeeded in portraying themselves as the party of family values when they are no such thing, Hillary convinced West Virginia values that she is on the side of hard working poor white people, even though she has voted in the Senate in ways that support the bankers and other capitalists. But Hillary has convinced a lot of the TPM community of the same thing, so naiveté isn't limited to poor uneducated white West Virginia voters. Their votes are to be taken as seriously as those of progressive educated TPMers. Let's work to win them away from the right wingers, and we won't do that be denigrating them.

Please knock off the denigration of one state over another. If you think for one minute that's a theme of Obama's, you've missed his boat entirely.

Barack Obama is no eltist, but you certainly are.