Kentucky is a closed primary - no Repugnants voting for Bernie.

[Bill USA]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-leans-on-democratic-loyalists-to-gain-upper-hand-in-kentucky-primary/2016/05/16/251e95aa-1b60-11e6-9c81-4be1c14fb8c8_story.html

LOUISVILLE — Hillary Clinton is putting up an unexpected fight in Kentucky, a state that her campaign had thought until quite recently might be out of reach in her primary race against Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

In advance of Tuesday’s Democratic primary, Sanders also campaigned heavily in Kentucky over the weekend, and Clinton planned two additional days there, a sign that she thinks she has a chance to stop Sanders from racking up an unbroken string of victories between now and the end of primary voting in June.

Oregon’s primary will also be held Tuesday, by mail-in ballot. Republicans held their primary in Kentucky in March. Republicans will vote in Oregon Tuesday, even though Donald Trump was declared the presumptive nominee after his victory in Indiana two weeks ago.

There is little recent public polling in Kentucky, but the Clinton campaign hopes to benefit from a different political environment than the one that greeted her in nearby West Virginia, a state she lost last week by 15 points.{West Virginia has an open primary - subject to Republicans sliding in calling themselves 'independants' and voting for Bernie, their preferred candidate_Bill USA}

For instance, Kentucky will hold a closed primary, shutting out independents who have heavily favored Sanders in other contests.
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[BillZBubb]

1. Closed, like the minds of many Hillary supporters. Welcome to ignore!

[jzodda]

16. Ignore for that?

You call him closed minded as you add to Ignore......

The let me only read what I agree with syndrome. If I don't see it or hear it it must not be there right?

This place is going down fast

[BillZBubb]

19. That and about 100 of his other bullshit posts.

He's not a first time offender. Don't you pay attention to who posts what?

[jzodda]

22. No I guess I don't

I just read it all

lol

[BillZBubb]

24. I give people a lot of leeway, because we all go astray at times.

But, some people are just of fountain of misinformation and innuendo. Once I've reached my limit, I put them on ignore.

[NorthCarolina]

2. Do you consider all people who voted for Bernie to be "Repugnant"? -nt-

[apnu]

3. I think the OP is referring to WV Republicans who crossed over and voted for Bernie

But I'm not sure.

[phleshdef]

9. That never happened because West Virginia is semi-closed

Independent voters could choose which side they wanted to vote in but registered voters had to vote in their own party's primary

[apnu]

12. Why did the exit polls show Bernie voters saying they're for Trump in the GE then?

Like 40% of Bernie voters said this. Suggesting then, that they are not real Bernie supporters, rather chaotic elements mucking up the system.

I know not one Bernie supporter who actually supports Trump or is willing to consider voting for Trump. I've seen plenty, and known plenty who are "Bernie or Bust" and say they'll sit out or write in come November, but not one has ever admitted supporting Trump.

[TCJ70]

13. The question posed to them was who they would choose between Trump and Clinton...

...Bernie had no bearing on the question asked.

[apnu]

15. So those Bernie voters support the conservative candidate?

Isn't that the polar opposite of Bernie's message?

[TCJ70]

18. No...you're misinterpreting.

You can't conclude they support Trump, you can only conclude they won't vote for Clinton.

Essential the order of choice for them is:
Sanders -> Trump -> Clinton

For many Sanders supporters, they'll be forced to vote for Clinton. Would you call them Clinton supporters automatically? No.

[apnu]

20. I don't understand, the choices were Trump or Clinton on the survey.

They picked Trump, how can we not conclude they support Trump?

[TCJ70]

23. Depends on your definition of support, I guess...

...do you really think the same people giving Bernie money would give Trump money? Canvas for Trump? Etc?

If your definition of support stops at voting, Clinton will have a whole lot of supporters in the Fall that really don't like her.

My choice should it come down to the two of them is neither. I don't want my name associated with either of them.

[phleshdef]

21. West Virginia is a weird animal. I was raised in southern WV myself. Its pretty awful.

Most West Virginia Dems were only Dems because of family tradition tied to the coal unions. Otherwise, a good number of them are racist, sexist and overall bigoted as hell down there. I left for Ohio at 18 and never looked back. The only reason Hillary Clinton won the WV primary in 2008 is because the alternative was a black guy with "one of them thar muslim names". Think about this, in 2012, during the uncontested Democratic presidential primary, 40% of the Democratic primary vote went to a convicted felon who is serving time in a Texas prison for extortion.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/prison-inmate-wins-more-than-40-of-democratic-vote-over-president-obama-in-wv-primary/

Anyway, a lot of them didn't vote FOR Bernie, instead they were voting against Clinton, because she is a woman and she worked in the Obama administration.

[apnu]

25. Yikes! Thanks for the local perspective.

It sounds like a strange place.

The South has always been a bastion of Conservationism going all the way back to the Revolution. It was over a period from Reconstruction to the 1960s did America's liberal-conservative poles switch between Democratic and Republican parties.

[CrowCityDem]

4. The more than a third of them in WV who support Trump, yes.

[NorthCarolina]

6. What about those Bernie voters

in places like North Carolina? Are they OK since Hillary won the State?

[CrowCityDem]

7. No matter where, if you support Trump, you don't deserve respect. We're Democrats.

[NorthCarolina]

11. Never said I was voting for Trump,

you just added it to the discussion. Your comment was basically Bernie supporters are Repugnant. I asked if that applied to all.....not sure why you saw fit to introduce Trump into the discussion on that issue. You either feel Bernie supporters are repugnant, or you don't. Which is it?

[apnu]

17. CrowCityDem isn't the OP.

I can't speak for either of them, but I don't find Bernie supporters repugnant. I do find some of their actions repugnant. Like publicly shaming Roberta Lange and trying to destroy her businesses and personal life for the shit-show that was Nevada on Saturday. But I don't carpet blame all Bernie supporters for this, just the jackasses bullying her now.

[Duckhunter935]

32. I don't support Trump

Am I still repugnant?

[Duckhunter935]

30. I guess I must be repugnant

[pmorlan1]

5. Closed Primary

I guess it should be a blow out for Hillary then. It's a closed primary and Hill & Bill have been campaigning all over the state and running more ads than Sanders. Yup, she should win by double digits and if she doesn't there's always Allison.

[hobbit709]

8. Ideologically, Hillary is closer to Rs than Bernie.

[Sheepshank]

14. But R's can't vote for her...so the point of your attempt at insult......?

If she wins in Kentucky, I'd say that means more Dems align with her than Bernie. That is actually what these votes are supposed to represent after all, right?

I still don't know why the losing campaign, the one with the lesser number of voters, thinks they should call the shots?

[hobbit709]

34. As opposed to the implied insult in the OP?

[Sheepshank]

35. diverting clarification of your statement, back to the OP is an obvious ploy---failure

How does you statement make any sense in the arena that R's cannot vote for a Dem...any Dem (even the ones Bernie courted)? Maybe just expand on your thoughts on this matter?

[Adrahil]

10. I think Clinton has a good chance to win this one, but....

I was reading a story about how a significant number of Democrats in Kentucky are very conservative, and vote Republican in the General Elections. Those voters are voting Sanders in hopes of damaging Clinton.

This was anecdotal, of course. I don't know if we'll get exit polls tonight, but it would be interesting to see if the exits bear this out, as they did in WV.

[MoonRiver]

26. Uh, that really doesn't make sense.

If they are REAL Democrats, why wouldn't they want the Democrat to win in the general? And, alternatively, if they are so conservative, WHY would they vote for a "socialist" in the primary?

[Adrahil]

27. Same reason as in where I grew up....

I grew up in a place dominated by Democrats..... conservative Democrats. For many years, the local politicians (county and state legislature) were all Democrats, but very conservative. And my district pretty much ALWAYS voted for the Repug in Presidential elections. That's changed there. They are mostly all Republicans now, but it only happened over the last 10 years. Some places STILL have people who are registered Democrats, but actually pretty conservative. Though that's been slowly changing over the last couple decades.

[MoonRiver]

28. My guess is that is not much of a threat any more in Kentucky.

[Adrahil]

31. I dunno... but the report I heard...

said that up to 25% of Democrats in KY have consistently supported the GOP nominee over the last couple cycles. Take a look at this:

http://wkyufm.org/post/many-kentucky-democrats-federal-elections-mean-voting-republican#stream/0

[MoonRiver]

33. Then best to think that 25% of Kentucky Dems are Repugs, and move on.

[Jester Messiah]

36. And no Independents voting for Hillary

Just like it'll be in the general.