I am a 71 year old white woman and have been for Barack Obama from the beginning. I want change and not the same old Washington politics. I was a Democrat for 50 years and switched to Republican when I heard Hillery was runnning for President. I then began to listen to and read about Barack Obama. At the time I switched I did not know McCain was running. I could never vote for him. Again another Bush Administration. He talks as if he had new false teeth! Seriously I am afraid of him. I will be voting for Barack Obama in the Fall. (Or I will not vote if it is Hillary) She cannot control Bill now, how can she control a country!!

I will be watching tonight to see how things turn out.
I am very skeptical of the polls and pundits and analysis
at this time. It is primary season and I am not sure if anyone
can say how things will go in November. I think tonight we
will have more drama and more action and factual numbers
to go on.

I am skeptical of all THREE candidates at this point! Will be watching the Best Political Team & still try to make sense of the issues of each candidate.
NEVER a dull moment in this election!
Also, thank you for providing the excellent analysts.

Imagine Tiger Woods playing golf with Bill Clinton—with Bill using Mulligans galore. That’s how Barack Obama must feel about this race with Hillary. Cheating is cheating, Hillary.

I think this thing could go either way. So I will wait and see what happens!

Obama has more problems than just working class whites and older women. Latinos and Jews are also very very skeptical of Obama. How Obama won Iowa was as a anti-war candidate. Also, Iowa does not have a secret ballot so when Obama supporters told people that they would be thought of as racist if they didn’t back Obama, they got scared and stood for Obama when they really didn’t want to. Thats when I decided I could never vote for Obama. He’s ripped the dem party apart by refusing to wait his turn. Eight years of Clinton followed by eight years of Obama was easily doable but he couldn’t see that. Now the dems are going to lose this fall.

John King,
Can you go over the charts at the “real clear politics” website?
From their statistics, it is pure fabrication that Hillary has over 17 million votes as she Misspeaks, no matter how you add things up.
She is NOT ahead in the popular vote, either, according to that site’s figures, though it is close. The gap widens for Obama with every bit over 0% in MI and 30% in FLA.
I honestly think someone, like Wolfson, puts a piece of paper in front of her and she believes she is ahead in the popular vote! I think? what they are doing, from her public statements, is discounting the caucus votes in their Obama tally. However, when they tally ‘total’ votes in her column they ‘exaggerate’ and include these. That’s the only way, from the statistics at ‘real clear politics’ that I can see someone could s t r e t c h her into a popular vote lead!?

A chance for a new beginning, that is what Barrack Obama is offering. How many times in your life do you get a chance for a new beginning? Democrats and Republicans are like an old married couple who fights all the time to know who has to cook the dinner and who has to take out the trash can. It is like if he is saying that both constituants must cook the dinner together and take the trash out together. Unfortunatly, the Republicans seems to prefer the status quo and the continuing yelling and bickering.

When a child grows up seeing is parents fighting all the time, he will most of the time lose it’s sense of how things should be instead of how things are. Sometimes you need to be out of the box to see it and that what Barrack Obama tries to do. When you are in a bad relationship, all your friends are always telling you what goes wrong and what you sould do but you mostly never take their saying into account. When the relation is over, you understand what your friends we’re telling you and you only realize that it is too late now.

NOW IS THE TIME TO WAKE UP!
Wake up America before it is too late!

Francys

Why does the media ALWAYS make race an issue? The majority of American’s (myself included) could care less if the candidates where black, white, hispanic or green martians. One stat I will agree with is the fact that Oklahoma is educated, and with the education comes the recognition for the change that Sen. Obama offers.
We want change!
Sen. Clinton has been in politics her entire adult life. Has there been any change? Stop and think about it people!

CNN has been biased in favor of Obama. Two brief comments.

1. Obama boasts that he will unite the nation. One of the bitter conflicts between blacks and whites, particularly but not restricted to blue collar workers is quota for blacks, disguised as affirmative action. Why don,t you feature this issue.?

2. I am a Florida resident and I am being deprived of my civil rights of being able to vote for my parties candidate by Obamas forces. The Democrats fought for a fair expression of the voters will in the Bush- Gore election. What an outrage to steal my vote now. Your commentators say that were the rules. Rosa Parks fought against the rules. Are civil rights to be guaranteed only for one group. Why have you not featured this outrage especially as it was the Republican leadership that st the primary date?

Ok, so I am officially “DECIDED”, I voted for OBAMA, I live in Oregon.
I was torn for months between Hillary and Obama, back and forth, back and forth, my head was hurting from it. I even combined two bumper stickers together, when you hold it one way it said OBAMA, then when
you hold it the other way, it said Hillary.

I voted last week here in Oregon, and I voted OBAMA.
I went to one of his rallies and he was amazing. Still, I do love Hillary,
and truly agree with John Edwards: Hillary has made Obama a better candidate. If he can win against Hillary, he can win against McCain.
Obama owes Hillary a great deal. Her iron will, her savvy, her ability
in politics, has help forge Obama into a better campaigner. He’ll need
all that muscle against the Republican war chest and dirty tricks.

Hail to the chief-tess. Hillary is awesome.

And Obama will be President.

Decided in ORegon,
Tita

Those percentages don’t mean anything if you don’t give us the population of each of the two states. 2% of a million is a lot higher than 7.3% of a hundred thousand.

I have been disappointed with CNN political coverage today. I have heard more about Obama. Even when I clicked on Hillary Clinton in your web site you had “Obama” headlines. Kentucky has educated people also but you showed very few of them..

You even aired an interview with the richest man in the world, Warren Buffet, and made sure everyone knew he favored Obama. Such a timely report on the morning of the primary.

For goodness sakes can’t you continue to be fair to both candidates until the end of the primaries.

Mellie

The reason is very simple, Kentucy is a moderate conservative democrat state and Orgeon is one of the most liberal tree hugging states in the u.s. It is way left of Middle America and the south. It is more in tune with the liberal northeast. It is not that they no more than the kentucy or west virginia voters, Probably less than the other two states mention but it will make them feel good and get rid of their white guilt by saying I voted for a black man, see how progressive i am.

Principle to follow:

BO wins states with large black populations, states with almost no blacks, and very little outside these two groups.

His reason for winning the former is obvious. He wins overwhelmingly white states because Democrats in those states tend to be very liberal. Why? Because the low black population results in little or no racial polarization.

David Chico wrote:

“How Obama won Iowa was as a anti-war candidate.”

It helped, but the lack of racial tension was the deciding factor.

“…told people that they would be thought of as racist if they didn’t back Obama…”

I wouldn’t be surprised if that was true, but it’s not necessary. Remember, Red State Democrats tend to be quite liberal.

Winning KY by a large margin would seem to violate the above rule. There are exceptions, such as WVA. The exceptions seem to run in Clinton’s favor.

BO will almost certainly get the nom, but his demographic weaknesses are glaring.

Voter education levels, race, gender and age all play a part. I would like to believe that bigotry isn’t a factor but it does continue to rear its ugly head. I have learned something new today - there are “turns” in politics. Thank you David in Chico for this handy info. And to think, I thought we had free elections and it was your “turn” when you won the election.

Susan
San Pedro, CA USA

Why does CNN not want people to know how to access Michelle Obama’s thesis online? Everytime I post it it vanishes within 5 minutes. Freedom of the press to suppress.

During the noon hour I was watching towards the end of the
program. Right before the CNN Newsroom, there was a series
of bites from Kentucky voters, A question was asked to an elderly
white male about Obama. And his response was Obama needs
to stop being so black. And you all have to ask why Obama did
not campaign in the state. I think you all should really differentiate
between white voters and to stop making it seem that this is the
sentiments of working class whites. I think geography means
a lot as well.

Racism is a big problem in this country, more so than most of you will acknowledge. The question is, what can we do about it? Do we just stand back and be apathetic and do nothing? Or do we try to enlighten these mis-guided souls? There has got to be a solution out there, and time is not it. We’ve had time, and America is still racist.

With Hillary, it is politics as usual. If you cannot win the normal way, you invent other metric to put you ahead. Lie if you have too to win. It was regretable that I voted for her in the Tennessee’s primary.

Edith Brooks………….

It is encouraging to read your addition to this blog. Obama cares about everyone in this country…………….poor, young, old, white, black,brown, red, yellow…….everyone. I do hope those that haven’t taken time to listen to him will give him a chance. 75,000 people in Oregon amassing to see him is an indication of things to come……………..

It is ridiculous to say that Hillary could win this or that state in an election in November. Running against a fellow Democrat is a lot different than running against a Republican………..

Obama may win the democratic nomination but in end will lose to Mccain for following resons;
1.Impact of Rev Wright on white voters.–Loses10% white voters
2.Obama wife-love the country for first in my adult life-loses 5%white and all other race voter.
3.Obama -will negotiate with Castro,Iran, North korea-loses 30 %Hispanic votes and 20% all other races inculding Florida,Texas,New Mexico
4.30% Hillary’s women democratic voters will stay at home and not vote for him.
5.35 % white blue collar democratic votres willstay at home and not vote.
6.Automatic White reaction to en bloc mass voting by African -Americans in his favour.
7 .Absence of Hillary on ticket
A survey on these lines will reval the truth and not what is projected by TV anyalists. Remember this data when counting ends in November

Because this race is based more on social class than ethnic background. Voters have always voted on a candidate based on
(1) political association
(2) what platform satisfied the voter
This is nothing new. Kentucky may have more blacks than Oregon but Kentucky is a poorer states, and poorer states lean toward Hillary. If she wasn’t in the picture they would vote for Obama because McCain and the Reps. have acted like the blue collar and middle class don’t exist.

“Hard Working Class?” Is this the new code word for white people that are losing their power & privilege? I am Black, 50 somthing and work hard… with white people, that also work hard. I don’t get it.

This is probably the last time that a woman will get a real chance to run for president.

Does anyone else see how ridiculous Hilary Clinton is getting in this election? She is losing in every category and still claims she will win when it is literally impossible to get the number she needs in the primary election. How can you count michigan and florida when Obama wasn’t even on the ballot? This race needs to end now before Clinton ruins the presidential election by causing democratic future voters to vote republican and prolong the war four more years.

The big win tonight is in Kentucky by Hillary Clinton. Obama doesn’t do well with white working class voters and he has not won the nomination. Hillary is the big winner and the best candidate.

In the case of Kentucky I think it comes down to the fact that Sen. Clinton appeals more to the less educated and we all know the less educated are usually more easily fooled.

It is a sad reflection of Hillary Clinton’s final, desperate attempt to seek this nomination when she is left courting the poor, white, rural, uneducated white vote. “Hard Working” was just Hillary Clinton’s condescending way to give a back-handed compliment to the only voting demographic she hasn’t alienated. What was she supposed to say? “The Unemployed Welfare Class?” If anyone thinks that Rev. Wright, dissapointed women who favored Hillary, or the miniscule amount of Cuban-American/Hispanic voters who will agree with McCain’s rants about maintaining our insane foreign policy that has continued unchanged while somehow expecting different results, they will be sadly dissapointed in November. The economy, Iraq, and energy policy/rising gas prices will dominate the agenda. The secondary issues that Republicans normally rely on like gay marriage or flag burning will not hunt this election cycle. There will be no Swift Boat or Willy Horton this time folks…The stakes are too high. And you must be high if you think we can afford another four years of Bush/Republican policies continued by John McCain.

What is so hard to understand?

Hillary is ahead in electoral votes. This is what matters in November.
I have already heard of two womens’ groups that will not vote for Obama in November. One group will vote for McCain and the other group will write in Hillary’s name.

The DNC and superdelegates are cramming Obama down our throats. Many of the states where Hillary won the popular vote, the superdelegates have went for Obama. In my own state (Okla) that has happened. I will actively campaign for anyone running against these traitors. Gov. Henry seems to think he know more than the people who put him in office. I am ashamed of Gov. Henry, David Boren and Brad Carson.

Hillary has experience
Obama has very little.

HILLARY IN 2008.

I will probably vote for McCain. My greatest wish is that Hillary would run as an Independent.

I live in Florida.

Today Howard Dean and the Democratic Party sent me an invitation. They dont want my vote, but they want my opinion and MONEY.

I sent their invitation back, in the postage paid envelope, advising them in very colorful language of my wish to switch parties to INDEPENDANT.

Lyn wrote:

“Is this the new code word for white people that are losing their power & privilege?”

They’d be very surprised to learn that they were ever “privileged.” Silly people, thinking that they built stable families and successful communities through hard work, frugality, and fidelity. Yep, it was all white “privilege.”

Chris - Hemet, Ca. wrote:

“… we all know the less educated are usually more easily fooled.”

Blacks are the least educated sector of our society, and they’re BO’s staunchest supporters. They apparently get a pass on that “education” thing.

The Obamatron mantra of “educated” = “smart” is wearing mighty thin by now.

Why an OBAMA-CLINTON or CLINTON-OBAMA TICKET WILL NEVER HAPPEN.

If Obama is the nominee, the Clintons will apply whatever force they deem necessary, either indirectly or face-to-face with Obama, to have him “select” Hillary as his VP running mate. Obama’s advisors/supporters, much less Obama himself, would NEVER subscribe to that scenario because they know that the Clintons would then hold Obama “hostage” and haunt him throughout his term of office, literally forcing him to be their “puppet” in order to run the country according to their agendas and to reward their “buddies” and supporters. Do you think for a moment that Obama would ever agree to a set of circumstances that, right from the get-go, would severely dilute, perhaps virtually curtail, his ability to deliver on his election promises and carry out his duties as President to his satisfaction?

If Clinton is the nominee, she and Bill will certainly brush Obama aside and offer the VP position to one of their own; thereby, prolonging and enhancing the Clinton legacy, as well as enabling them to reward those who have championed and “punish” those who have deserted the Clinton camp. Whomever the Clintons might choose as their VP running mate better be prepared for an off-site office and lots of travel in the event that Hillary is elected President!

Mahalo from Kauai,

George.

Obama can not hold a candle to Hillary Clinton…why he doesn’t want any more debates with her. She has much more wisdom and intellect and he knows she can out smart him. Where did this man come from anyway? CNN says he “warned” the GOP that they better back off of his wife…”warned”…and what if they don’t? What does he mean? People better really remember the stuff they’ve heard already…like “bitter”, Wright, his wife’s comments (just now proud to be an American), “typical white person”, etc….there is way too much negative about him. If Hillary is not the nominee, he will surely lose against McCain and the DNC knows this. I don’t think they will risk the U.S. by just giving it to him when she is the most electable and counting Florida and Michigan…he can’t be the nominee. I, along with thousands, maybe millions, will NEVER vote for Obama.

Kentucky and WV will go red in November. I don’t understand why, but they will go Republican. It doesn’t have to do with Obama or Hillary or McCain. They are Conservative states. Bill Clinton did well there but that was Bill. Hillary will not be the nominee so Bill cannot pull those votes. But really………….why do these people, who don’t have a lot of money and are overlooked by Republicans once they get into office, vote Republican?

There is a reason that educated and young people vote for Obama, they are using their brains.

Why do John King only think there are only white working americans…..are there any black, asian, hispanic, along with other racess that work every day……

Or maybe he remember when blacks were beaten if they read a book…or America was build off the backs of black slaves…….what was white americans then….

He make it a point to only use the word working with white america…what is the rest of us doing?…

.just standing around…..How many times have the word working been attached to black Americans….

How many bl;acks work at cnn,…when I go to work I see all types of races…..

For the record….I don’t give blacks any lead way in this area as well…this message apply to everyone……I tell my community, job, church, and every other race….not to judge…….

So black…..america and every other race take heed to this message as well…..I know everything in not going to be fair but in some areas….we need to hear working classes of people in every races…….

have always admired CNN and still do, but it is so unbelievable how Mr. Schneider and some of the other commentators seem to stick their heads in the sand and can’t see the obvious.

I have been to West Virginia, Kentucky and some of the rurual areas of Pennsylvania and the fact that Obama did not win those states did not surprise me at all. Yet some of the comentator’s seem to not want to face the truth, but instead look for other reason’s that they seem to dream up, why Senator Obama lost the so called white working class vote and those who did not attend college in these locations.

I know myself, as well as other Blacks I know who have been to some of these areas that the demographic’s for all of these places are pretty much the same, down to the clothes that they wear in West Virginia and the rural areas of Kentucky. These places are some of the most racist’s areas in the country and they probably wouldn’t even vote for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. if he was running for President.

In short, most people in these areas will not vote for a Black man or woman running for President, and for you to try to compare Oregon with Kentucky and those other state’s because of the percentage of white’s in Oregon being simiiar is unbelievable as well, because I am from Southern Caliornia and i know Oregon very well and most of the the White’s in Oregon are in no way like those in Kentucky, West Virginia and rural Pen.. but are educated and not racists. It is just unbelievable at how you and other commentator’s as well as so many White’s do not want to face the truth, but try to paint a picture of what they wish was the truth.

I am an Afghan American and I am proud to vote this year, I will vote for Obama. Hillary should make a graceful exit and enjoy her $100 million and fake marriage.

The hired guns, gadgets, and Holy Men will not convince us we are uneducated, old or stupid for voting for Clinton.
It is embarasing to hear women diss their own kind in such a way and set in the presence of men who are so inclined.
It will be remembered. by women of all races, colors and kind.

We are not as you preach. We are not less educated, nor lesser humans as you say. We are not old as you say.
You can not make us believe a vote for Clinton puts us in any of these catagories.
We are unhappy about what you have said and continue to preach on a daily basis.
A meeting last evening of 61 very well educated women brought this subject up.
All of us are sickened by your idea that you might be able to control the election cycle.

hillary is convincing everyone that she can do the best for the economy. am i the only one that can see she cannot handle her own campaigh finances. she owes millions. who wants to give her control over trillions

As a 50 yo professional woman the blatant sexism Senator Clinton has bee treated to is infuriating and even frightening. Sexism is the last bastion of “socially acceptable” bigotry. Just tonight on CNN during a discussion of a NY Times article that referred to Clinton as a “white bitch”, the Republican commentator said, “Well some people ARE.” and claimed to have no problem with that attribution!

I wonder what he would think if Bush or McCain were referred to in the NY Times as “white Sons-of Bitches”. I certainly think of Bush aka “shrub” or “twig” as an ignorant, arrogant SOB who has done more harm to this country than any President in history. But I would not expect to see such a description in any official journalistic venue and would think it inappropriate if I did.

If a any man behaved in exactly the same way that Hillary Clinton did/does
they would not be denigrated in such a patronizing and even sometimes venomous way. To me this race is an example of ANY attractive, charming young man having an advantage over ANY woman, no matter how competent or qualified they are.

I will never give up my right AND responsibility to vote for President, nor could I ever stomach voting for the current ideology of the Republican party as it has evolved over my lifetime. So I will not sulk at home on Election Day and WILL vote for Obama if he is the candidate. His ideology is nearly identical to Clinton’s so I have no problem there. But I will be voting with cynicism and some bitterness over how far we have NOT come in how we judge assertive, brilliant women who seek any real power.

Not only did Hillary win the popular vote in Florida but she surpassed Obama in the money race; $8.4M vs Obama’s $5.2M, according CNN.com. Does this not count? Why is it not mentioned??? Florida wants to make it count–not only did we vote but we contributed when it didn’t matter?!?!?!

As a country we made a HUGE mistake in electing Bush and we will make another mistake in electing Obama in ‘)8. It is so clear that Hillary is the person that can lead us out of the mess caused by our own vote in ‘04!

Edwards endorsement, coming off Kentucky, didn’t do much. Neitherdi

I have heard analyst on CNN Politics, using the analogy of a basketball game. In retrospect, they are right. Hilary Clinton, is like a little child, who shows up with the only basketball. Everyone else wants to play, so they pick her. They agree to the game rules, “first one to ten (10).” However, when the little spoiled brat (who owns the ball) loses, they offer compromise.
“Wait! First one to fifteen (15).?”
“No!”
“Okay, best 2 out of 3?”
“No! You agreed to first one to 10. You lose, now let us play on.”
It is here, the spoiled brat takes the ball and goes home, that no one plays.

If the democratic party allows this, imagine having to explain this to your children. Someone who would split the party; play the (feminine) race card and most importantly, try to change rules she agreed to and said is what should happen, if they changed their primary.
“If I don’t win, nobody does.”
The Clintons continue; to exert high morals…

I continue to find it disturbing when you speak of Clinton getting the white vote as being Racist. Yet Obama gets97% of the black vote and that isn’t considered Racist.

Why the different spin and turning the primaries into a race issue when in fact it should be on the qualifications of each of the candidates and quite frankly Obama fairs in comparison to Clinton.

I support Clinton not because she is a woman or she is white ,I choose to support the candidate that I believe is BEST qualified to lead our country in the most troubling times I have ever experienced. It is a volitle world we live in now and I do not feel Obama has the experience, knowledge and wisdom to lead our country in this particular time of history.

AC,

Why do we have such a difficult time beings honest? A question on the panel tonight was asked if race has anything to do with why Barack Obama has trouble winning the white blue collar vote. How about the most obvious answer…YES! How can you dispute that Sen. Clinton and Obama don’t have huge policy differences and on most fronts very similar policy beliefs, but then the exit polls say that many of her supporters would rather vote for John McCain rather than Obama in the general election. That is affirming that white blue collar voters would rather have another 4-8 years of Bushonomics, than vote for a bi-racial (not full black, but HALF black) candidate. It’s not just a passion for Sen. Clinton, but rather discontent with Sen. Obama because of his skin tone; not his policy or willingness to take this country in a positive direction. It’s very, very said that in 2008, we still have this obvious racial divisiveness in our country and even more overt racial challenges in particular regions of the country.

I know CNN screeners will read this so i will send it anyway. Question I ask America and CNN, you say Obama has a problem with rurual white votes. Let me Ask you this could the FEAR factor of him being black is the PROBLEM, Here are my facts you decide:

1. He has one is states where the black population is less than 6% i.e. Idaho, Iowa, Wisc. Utah, Alaska. They have rural white working class voters.

2. He has one is states where the black population is greater than 16% i.e. Georgia, Miss., NC, SC. They have rural white working class voters.

3. He has Lost in the states with a black population in between i.e. Ohio, Penn., Indiana, Kentucky, WVA. Why is this you may ask. Look at the Racial History and the news stories. They wont vote for Obama, but Mccain instead when he has voted against equal women pay and has explicitly stated he will stock the Supreme Court with judges who will over turn Roe v. Wade. Thats what they rather vote for than Obama who is identical to Clinton on policy just not Race yet he is half white.

I ask AMERICA what do we really care about.. I thought we were over this. I just ask for all of you to really take a step back understand what I said and respond. I will be checking but CNN will not post. I GUARANTEE IT!!!

Reading the blog entries of the OBama and Clinton folks it boggles my mind that the Democratic party is so confident that once they crown Obama with the nomination that all the Democrats will support him. This primary election cycle has been one of the most rancorous I have seen. Discouraging really.

Annie Kate
Birmingham AL

Chris - Hemet, just because people are less educated does not mean they’re fools. There are plenty of people who did not go to college but are still capable of making intelligent decisions.

I am fed up with so called educated people. A comment was made about uneducated people easily fooled. Well almost every highly educated person I know has no common sense, they tend to overthink every thing and will list the most ridiculous reasons for voting for Obama. Change? What change? He will not change anything and these so called highly educated people need to realize that a smooth talking man is not the person to run this country in these trying times. I am sorry that I am only an educated person, so I will only vote for Hillary. Obama can never earn my vote.

Just as the polling stations close in Oregon. The thought crosses my mind that Obama will be close to the delegates to clinch the Democratic Nomination, but that also leaves Hillary with two options…1) Stay in the race until someone tells her she needs to fade away, or 2) Split from the DNC and continue the run under a third party if she want’s the presidency that bad.

I’m a Florida Democrate and I will be switching from Democratic party to INDEPENDENT because os the dumbest move by the DNC to exclude Florida voters from the primary vote. Dean shuoild be dumped! He is voting for Florida. We voters don’t count. What the hell is this all about? Dean wants to choose the Democratic candidate. I’m gone…

There will be no melding of the rift in the dem. party; too much bad blood has been let that no amount of suturing can hold. The hate between Obama & Clinton supporters cut too deep.

Why can CNN make projections an hour after polls close for the primaries(in most cases), but NO ONE else ever comes out and projects that he is the nominee? Can’t CNN project him as the nominee?

If Iowa didn’t release the final vote count how do we know that Obama really won that big there? If states don’t release final vote counts, than the delegate votes should be questioned. If we accept these votes as true than give Hillary both FL and MI.

As this goes on I have lost all faith in the American voting process and politics as a whole.

So Christine, Obama will never earn your vote because of what other people say? Interesting… makes me wonder if my point earlier is true for you…Do live in KY or WV? Hillary and Obama virtually have similar political views aside from a few ideals… and he could never earn your vote… As I stated earlier…interesting

Gosh, there he goes, winning another state with very few blacks - and yet he can’t win hard working, white Americans? I’m willing to bet that Oregon residents work quite hard themselves.

The double standard that Barack is being held to is ridiculous. Hillary has knee-capped and marginalized his candidacy throughout the primaries, but he is supposed to tread lightly in order not to upset her. She cries sexism and everyone cowers, but Barack routinely defends the Clinton’s, Huckabee, and anyone else that race baits. He has never claimed that racism has been a problem in this contest, and yet she claims sexism in a contest when 55% of the voters have been women? Do the Clinton’s have the media and DNC by the balls or what?

I am a resident of Kentucky, and registered as a republican. I couldn’t vote for Obama as I wanted to because I needed to change my party affiliation before Jan 1 to be able to vote democrat in our primary. I know several people who were faced with this same issue. I doubt that this would have made Obama win here by any means, but the fact that independents and republicans couldn’t vote for him, nor could they change their party, certainly didn’t help.

I am a well-educated–um–older woman. I am a Hillary supporter. If Hillary does not get the nomination, I will support Obama. I won’t be happy about his getting the nomination. But I know that either one of them is a lot better than McCain. Democrats who are for one candidate or the other who say they will vote for McCain if their candidate does not get the nomination are cutting off their noses to spite their faces. I hope they will come around. We don’t need four more years of failed policies.

Jacob: I watch cnn every day. Obama gets no love on the news. Sometimes I turn off the news cause its false. Do you believe everything on the news? Everyone know that the news has been against Obama. Like I say all the time, The US is no better than any communist country out there in the world. We just sugar coat our dirt. Think for a second, why do you think we have no foreign relations. Look at the our presidential election. Its like watching people degrade themselves to become president. Other countries see this. Thats sad and we are suppose to be the strongest country in the world.

Jacob: You dont even know the facts either, Hilliry voted not to have your votes count to. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT! How can you complain and you dont even know the correct facts. OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT!!