'Uncommitted' Beats Obama in Half of Kentucky

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Dashiell Bennett - The Atlantic Wire


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 the protest vote that "Uncommitted" beat the President 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.

Again, to be fair to the president, most of his actual supporters aren't going to bother to come out for a pointless vote and the total number of ballots cast was only around 200,000 across all of Kentucky. (Notice the "turnout" in the photo above.) And Kentucky and Arkansas are unlikely to be in play for the Democrats come November. But it's still an embarrassment for the White House at a time when Obama needs all the good news he can get. With Mitt Romney's poll numbers are growing and the job growth slowing, Obama needs a big win to rally the troops and get back some of that enthusiasm that his supporters seems to have lost since 2008.

[perrhaps]

If "Should Be Committed" had run, he would have gotten 65%.

[Richard Cranium]

Last night was more of the same for President Obama. In Arkansas, he lost over 40% of the vote and a full 36 countries to a relatively unknown attorney who lives in Tennessee. In Kentucky, Obama lost over 42% of the vote and a full 67 counties to "uncommitted." Rather than blame the President's failed economic policies, his racial and class divisiveness, his war on the coal industry, or the decision to stop lying about his position on same-sex marriage -- Democrats prefer to describe their very own as racist: Those headlines have drawn a collective eyeroll from Democrats — and many others who closely follow national politics — who ascribe the underperformance by the incumbent to a very simple thing: racism.

They argue that conservative white Democrats — particularly those in the South and Appalachia — don’t want to vote for an African American for president and, therefore, are willing to cast a ballot for almost anyone else up to and including an incarcerated felon. …

"Race, resentment [and] fear,” explained Donna Brazile, a Louisiana native and Democratic strategist when asked about Obama’s under performance. “Democrats have not had any messaging in those states for more than a decade. It’s hard to get voters to like you or even know you when all they hear is negative stuff.”

Hey, maybe these bitterly clinging Democrats don't like Obama because they're tired of Obama's minions in the media and the party calling them racist.

Just a thought.

As I mentioned earlier today, the real story the corrupt media doesn’t want to tell is that Obama's having serious issues with his base. Thus far, it's not just the rural white working class breaking away in coal country. Overall…

In the 16 states in which voters were given an alternative to Obama on the Democratic primary ballot — whether it be an actual candidate, a write-in or simply “uncommitted” — Obama averaged 84.6 percent of the vote.

In the five states where there was a named opponent, though, Obama’s share of the vote was 72.7 percent.

Furthermore, in 2008 Obama won both North Carolina and New Hampshire and has been embarrassed with his showings in both this year. Maybe a smarter place to look for Obama's base problems would be his flat-footed and failed attack on Bain Capital, where the three most prominent Democrats who publicly defied the President -- Cory Booker, Harold Ford Jr., and Artur Davis -- are all black.

Riddle me that, racial demagogues.

Naturally, the anti-Mormon bigots at the Washington Post give this racism charge some serious consideration, which is a-okay by me. Nothing like a circular firing squad of ignorance to make last night's primaries all the sweeter.

[Acid Trip]

"Race, resentment [and] fear,” explained Donna Brazile, a Louisiana native and Democratic strategist when asked about Obama’s under performance.

There it is folks, the race card. Anyone who votes against a black (or half black) candidate is racist.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Anti Bush you were unpatriotic, anti Obama and you're a racist.