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Thread #145078   Message #3354949
Posted By: Songwronger
23-May-12 - 09:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: Obama Battles 'Uncommitted' in Primary
Subject: BS: Obama Battles 'Uncommitted' in Primary
President Obama easily won the Kentucky Democratic Primary last night, but the vote was much closer than it should have been considering he was running unopposed. Obama received 58 percent of the vote state-wide, but that means 42 percent of the people who came out gave their support to "Uncommitted." So many people took time out of their day to register a protest votes that "Uncommitted" beat the Presdient in 67 of Kentucky's 120 counties.

Obama faced a similar threat in Arkansas, where at least he was running against an actual human. Lawyer and Occupy Wall Street supporter John Wolfe also came in around 42 percent, or right about where he was polling....

http://news.yahoo.com/uncommitted-beats-obama-half-kentucky-110037550.html

That's MORE THAN HALF of the counties that Obama lost to Uncommitted in Kentucky. And in a related story from West Virginia:

In an embarrassment to President Obama, Federal Inmate No. 11593-051 – otherwise known as Keith Judd – won 10 counties and 41 percent of the vote in West Virginia's Democratic presidential primary Tuesday.

Mr. Judd is incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana, Texas, where he is serving a 210-month sentence for extortion, according to The Charleston Gazette. Judd had paid the $2,500 filing fee and submitted a notarized "certificate of announcement" to appear on the ballot....

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/President/2012/0509/Ouch!-Obama-loses-41-percent-of-W.Va.-primary-vote-to-federal-inmate