Don't think you'll find many people in Mudcat to talk about West Virginia with, because the majority here support Obama. If it is bad news for Obama, they either ignore it or shout down the messengers and villify them.

That is the "Yes We Can" strategy, it seems, at least on the ground.

What should worry a lot of folks is the sheer nastiness of a certain percentage of Obama's supporters. The hate mongers who are the mirror image of the Rove Republicans.

We even have a few of them here in Mudcat.

Those folks are already causing problems, because they keep alienating the very voters they need to attract for Obama to win in November.

He can't win without the white working class voters. He doesn't need to win all of them, of course. Just the vast majority of them.

And he isn't doing really well with that group, as the WV landslide victory for Clinton just demonstrated.

And a victory like that after Obama's supposed "come back" in North Carolina, is pretty ominous for the general election trends.

They don't all have to switch to McCain for Obama to lose. Just enough of them, while the rest stay home & sit this election out.