Texas Federal Prisoner gets 40% of vote in WV Dem Primary

[Lord_Feldon]

@spooje

If not, doesn’t a person who tries to get on the ballot in a state have to have lived in the state for a certain period of time directly before getting on said ballot?

I doubt that’s the case in any state for presidential primaries.

[BrainGlutton]

Look, can anyone be in doubt here? They didn’t vote for a convict, probably didn’t even know that; they’re red-state Dems, they voted for the only Not-Obama on the ballot.

[Chronos]

No, wait, that’s what Obama was hiding on his birth certificate! He wasn’t born in Kenya, he was born in West Virginia. No wonder he’s ashamed of it.

[JRDelirious]

@BrainGlutton

Look, can anyone be in doubt here? They didn’t vote for a convict, probably didn’t even know that; they’re red-state Dems, they voted for the only Not-Obama on the ballot.

Right. Heck, in the 2010 Senate election, (D)-then-governor Mancin ran successfully by campaigning hard ***against ***most of the Obama platform, specially emphasizing his divergence with the Prez on Obamacare, energy and guns. And that was facing a GOP opponent who did not even really live in the state and was caught casting campaign ads based on insulting clichés about WV.

WV Dems are very old-school.

[BrainGlutton]

@JRDelirious

Right. Heck, in the 2010 Senate election, (D)-then-governor Mancin ran successfully by campaigning hard ***against ***most of the Obama platform, specially emphasizing his divergence with the Prez on Obamacare, energy and guns. And that was facing a GOP opponent who did not even really live in the state and was caught casting campaign ads based on insulting clichés about WV.

WV Dems are very old-school.

The encouraging thing, then, is that only 40% of them despised Obama enough to vote for the unknown name.

[New_Deal_Democrat]

@CandidGamera

Given how racist, ignorant and backward this state can be? I’m pretty pleased with those numbers for Obama.

[ScarletNumber]

@Left_Hand_of_Dorkness

I guess what gets me is how conservatives are cackling about this, as if it says something about Obama.

No: it says something about conservatives. When your compatriots* are willing to vote for a total stranger (who turns out to be a federal prisoner) instead of voting for Obama, they’ve left the deep end and are swimming over the Marianas Trench.

You shouldn’t be saying, “See, Obama’s such a weak candidate that people will vote for a federal prisoner over him!” You should be saying, “Good Lord, the people who agree with me are so ignorant that they’ll vote for a federal prisoner over Obama!”

The takeaway from this isn’t that Obama’s weak in West Virginia: we already knew that. The takeaway is that the sort of aggressive, spiteful ignorance that has commandeered the Republican party over the last decade is reaching is insidious tendrils into the West Virginia Democratic party as well.

• Yes, Republicans: West Virginia Democrats are your compatriots.

I think it says more about Obama than it does about the voters.

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

@ScarletNumber

I think it says more about Obama than it does about the voters.

Thanks for sharing!

[lance_strongarm]

@jtgain

Yep…Obama is so unpopular in WV that he only wins 60-40 against a man currently in federal prison.

Bullshit.

Obama had no real opposition so the pro-Obama voters didn’t bother to vote. And most people understand that (perhaps even you).

[BrainGlutton]

@ScarletNumber

I think it says more about Obama than it does about the voters.

And you base that on what?

[ScarletNumber]

@Left_Hand_of_Dorkness

Thanks for sharing!

You’re welcome.

@BrainGlutton

And you base that on what?

Some people think Obama is a lousy president and doesn’t deserve reelection. I don’t see why that is so terrible.

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

@ScarletNumber

Some people think Obama is a lousy president and doesn’t deserve reelection. I don’t see why that is so terrible.

Well I sure do, as exemplified by my post that said NOTHING OF THE SORT.

The question isn’t whether people think Obama is a lousy president. The question is whether people think a federal prisoner in Texas would be a better president. Are you gonna make the claim that:
a) some folks genuinely think that, and they’re not a bunch of stupid assholes? or
b) some folks don’t really think that, but they didn’t bother to find out who they were voting for, and they’re not a bunch of stupid assholes? or
c) something totally unrelated to the thread?

[lance_strongarm]

@Typo_Negative

OK, help me out with something.

How an inmate get get on the ballot? He has been incarcerated in Texas for more than a decade. Doesn’t that make him a resident of Texas? If not, doesn’t a person who tries to get on the ballot in a state have to have lived in the state for a certain period of time directly before getting on said ballot?

Could I, as California resident, have gotten the ballot in WV?

Yes. Most presidential candidates try to get on the ballot in all 50 states.

[ScarletNumber]

@Left_Hand_of_Dorkness

Well I sure do, as exemplified by my post that said NOTHING OF THE SORT.

The question isn’t whether people think Obama is a lousy president. The question is whether people think a federal prisoner in Texas would be a better president. Are you gonna make the claim that:
a) some folks genuinely think that, and they’re not a bunch of stupid assholes? or
b) some folks don’t really think that, but they didn’t bother to find out who they were voting for, and they’re not a bunch of stupid assholes? or
c) something totally unrelated to the thread?

b)

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

@ScarletNumber

b)

Okay, fine, make it.

[ScarletNumber]

@Left_Hand_of_Dorkness

Okay, fine, make it.

As I stated earlier, they didn’t want to reelect Obama. So they voted for someone else.

This isn’t a difficult concept.

[Algorithm]

@ScarletNumber

As I stated earlier, they didn’t want to reelect Obama. So they voted for someone else.

This isn’t a difficult concept.

And what does that say about Obama?

[pravnik]

Let’s not pretend this had anything to do with either Obama or being in federal prison. West Virginia voters rewarded Judd for rocking the most kickass ponytail imaginable, as damn well they should.

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

@ScarletNumber

As I stated earlier, they didn’t want to reelect Obama. So they voted for someone else.

This isn’t a difficult concept.

Yeah, see, in light of the “they voted for a federal prisoner over Obama without bothering to find out who they were voting for,” you need to justify your “but they’re not stupid assholes” claim. Shit, that coulda been Kang or Kodos.

Or you could just keep making the claim without any justification, in which case, hey, wanna know what my cat’s breath smells like?

[CandidGamera]

@Left_Hand_of_Dorkness

Yeah, see, in light of the “they voted for a federal prisoner over Obama without bothering to find out who they were voting for,” you need to justify your “but they’re not stupid assholes” claim.

Speaking as a West Virginian, don’t hold your breath on that happening.