Of course not every person who doesn't vote for Obama is racist and no one ever claimed such an absurdity. Many don't vote for Obama because they think he's too inexperienced, because Clinton(or McCain in the general) have more experience or knowledge of the way government works and that is totally legitimate. We are talking about people who will not vote for Obama under any circumstances just because he's black. We talk about people whose lives have been ruined by the Republicans awful and immoral economic and social policies but who dutifully will vote for a Republican only because the Democratic candidate is black.

not as an advanced country anymore. An economic and military super-power, sure, but also as a largely backward society with pockets of progressive modernity. We are perceived, and rightly so, as a war mongering and imperialistic country, out to force our will on the rest of the world and capture its natural resources. If this perception is not changed, and rapidly, by a new administration with radically new policies, we will become the world's renegades and the political and economic consequences to our nation will be catastrophic. Many West Virginians, among others, due to their isolation and ignorance, are unaware of it and continue to vote their ignorance.

I once drove through a southern state on a cross country drive and got into a conversation with a white man in a gas station while my car was being repaired. I asked him if he could ever vote for a black candidate for president. His answer:" I'm not a racist, but I would never vote for a n....r."

The fact that Clinton claims she should be the nominee because of her appeal to that particular dempgraphics should be her main disqualification, although she has many.

My dog was once kicked by a man who hates dogs. He never goes near that man again and whenever he sees that creep, his hatred for him is obvious, and he would no doubt go after him if I let him off leash. My dog is so much smarter than the West Virginia white trash who have been screwed by the various Republican presidents over and over and over again, but will always vote for a Republican for president, especially if the Democrat is African-American. Frankly, no demographics deserve to be screwed by the GOP more than the white trash who elect them.

and admit that tens of millions of US citizens still live, mentally, emotionally and intellectually, in the Middle Ages. Many of them live in states like West Virginia. Why did they vote for Bush twice? Because of medieval backward non-issues like guns and "God". Racism is of course part of it-they wouldn't vote for a black candidate anymore than they would vote for a squirrel. You can't bring people out of the Dark Ages against their will- they must actually want to join modernity, and those people are not anywhere near that stage.

The GOP right wing, the group McBush has pulled out all stops in his attempts to gain their support and trust, denies even the existence of global warming. Moreover, they are strongly opposed to any attempt to get corporate America to curb emissions and to develop green technology that would eventually replace oil. The notion that McBush would ever seriously challenge his right wing and corporate America on global warming is laughable. This was a cynical attempt to put Oregon in play in the fall.

Apparently, obama indicated to Clinton that he was willing to solve the MI and FL matter by splitting the delegates 60/40 in her favor. Her counter-demand was, get this:100/0 in her favor. In other words, she gets all the delegates. This is a reminder to those believing that at some point, maybe after June 3rd, she will concede defeat or accept Obama's win, which is inevitable. She will not. Clinton is aiming to fracture the democratic party and run on a 3rd party ticket in November.

It's totally understandable why she wants someone else to pay her back the 11.5 million dollars she has loaned her campaign. Who the hell can live on 97 million dollars?

to troll on Salon? Probably because he can sneeze and fart at the same time.

You claim that Obama can't win without the white trash vote. Well, no Democrat has been getting that vote for the last 30 years. Remember, Bill Clinton lost that group by a wide margin, twice. Even if Clinton is the nominee, she will lose that group by a 2 to 1 margin to McBush. Wishful thinking will get you nowhere. Dukakis tried to appeal to that group with his tank photo-op, Kerry with his hunting gimmick, and it didn't work. The Republicans appeal to the white trash lizard brain by using code words like:guns, abortion, gays and terrorism. Obama is forming a new coalition that can win without the demographic that wouldn't vote for any Democrat anyway. See, it was easy, all you had to do was ask.

The demographics she is supposedly doing so well with, uneducated white voters, is the most unreliable demographics as far as the Democratic party is concerned. For almost 30 years, in any presidential election cycle they have voted for the Republican, regardless how ruinous he has been to their financial welfare. This group is fool's gold or sand disappearing through your fingers, choose your metaphor. Every 4 years the Democrats think they have it, and those people end voting republican by large margins. Even if Clinton steals the nomination, two thirds of them will vote for McBush.