Why does West Virginia suddenly matter?

[George_Bonanza]

Honest question. I thought small states that would most likely go red didn't matter, as per Hillary.

[MadBadger]

1. Because she says she is going to turn it blue

[anonymous171]

2. Matters just as much as all the other states in the union.

It's a race for pledged delegates, not demographic groups.

[nxylas]

3. Because it's not a caucus state

So that makes it different from all those other small red states. Or something.

[anonymous171]

4. I think it matters because Hillary will win.

She did the same thing with PA.

[DarienComp]

5. WHTWWFHOAGD.

Whatever Hillary thinks will work for her on any given day.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

24. The goalpost was erected there 2 evenings ago. It's new and shiny too.

[Galway girl]

6. "Country roads take me home" John Denver said so!!

[rsmith6621]

7. Why.....Because....

....Because Hillary celebrate Thanksgiving in WV at a distant cousins home when she was 11 years old...:sarcasm:

[SoCalDem]

27. and when she was 9 she wrote a letter asking how she could be a coal miner

if she could not get into astronaut-school, coal miner was her second choice..

she even earned her "coal miner" merit badge in girl scouts when she carved Abraham Lincoln's face into a lump of coal she found...

[lisa58]

8. Only states Hillary wins matter.

[Vinca]

9. Maybe West Virginia will wake up and go blue anyway,

given the Bush administration's obscene record on mine safety.

[iamthebandfanman]

11. id imagine

some of you act like WV has never been blue. lol.

[Vinca]

15. And some of us do our homework.

West Virginia is usually Democratic - 6 of the last 10 presidential elections. I'm puzzled by their Bush love, though.

[McCamy Taylor]

17. Because he acts like a dumb, poor kid whose dad just happens to have money.

They can identify with his "I am just the idiot child in a family of smart kids who never made good until I finally got elected president" routine.

[bunnies]

10. Lots of white people?

:shrug:

[McCamy Taylor]

13. Oregon has lots of white people, too. So it doesn't matter? Get real

The difference between Oregon and West Virginia is Oregon has more white people who are not poor and Virginia has more white people who are poor and I am getting sick and tired of DU blaming poor folks in this country for their own plight.

[bunnies]

14. hmmm.

So Obama CAN win the white vote. Thanks for playing!

[McCamy Taylor]

16. Of course he can. What he is having trouble with is the poor vote.

[bunnies]

23. ....

Sorry. Im not used to Clinton supporters being so logical. :hug:

[McCamy Taylor]

12. This is a battleground state we can win this fall.

Check out how close it has been in previous elections and how many Dems come from West Virginia.

Oregon is also a battleground state.

[bhikkhu]

20. Oregon less so - it should go Dem with either of our candidates

But polling in WV suggests that Hillary would win it in the GE, while Obama would not.

On the other hand, there are states that Obama is projected to win in the GE that Hillary is not. All of this is very premature...but that's what there is to talk about as far as still trying to make a case for one over the other according to electoral projections.

http://electoral-vote.com/

[Arrowhead2k1]

Because the Clinton lady says so,

so it MUST be important.

[Arrowhead2k1]

18. Double

post. :(

XXXXXXX

[K Gardner]

19. Today, W Va.. tomorrow, Puerto Rico ! Then the Pacific... and onto the Carribean...

[Arrowhead2k1]

21. And then she'll put forth legislation to immediately include Canada in the process.

But not BC, Ontario, and Quebec because those provinces would probably sway to Obama.

[K Gardner]

25. Mais Oui ! Then Ireland.. we're coming !

[thewiseguy]

22. Who said it does?

[SoCalDem]

26. Because she still thinks she can dictate the agenda

There once was a filly, named Hillie
People may have thought it silly
She wanted to win the big race
Which was fine on its face
But she was undone as it all went south
Thanks to Filly Hillie's & Billy's big mouth