LOL - Texas INMATE gets 40 per cent of votes against Obama in West Virginia primary

[bsteadman]

Texas INMATE gets 40 per cent of votes against Obama in West Virginia primary

Daily Mail
5/9/2012

• Inmate Keith Judd got 40% of vote in West Virginia to Obama's 60%
• Got on ballot by paying $2,500 fee and filing forms

By Associated Press

Excerpt:

"Just how unpopular is President Obama in some parts of the country? Enough that a man in prison in Texas is getting four out of 10 votes in West Virginia's Democratic presidential primary.

The inmate, Keith Judd, is serving time at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas for making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999.

With 93 per cent of precincts reporting, Obama was receiving just under 60 per cent of the vote to Judd's 40 per cent.

For some West Virginia Democrats, simply running against Obama is enough to get Judd votes.

'I voted against Obama,' said Ronnie Brown, a 43-year-old electrician from Cross Lanes who called himself a conservative Democrat. 'I don't like him. He didn't carry the state before and I'm not going to let him carry it again.'

When asked which presidential candidate he voted for, Brown said, 'That guy out of Texas.'

Judd was able to get on the state ballot by paying a $2,500 fee and filing a form known as a notarized certification of announcement, said Jake Glance, a spokesman for the Secretary of State's office."
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[bsteadman]

40% of West Virginia Dems would rather have a jail bird than Obama as president

40% of West Virginia Dems would rather have a jail bird than Obama as president

American Thinker
Rick Moran
5/9/2012

Excerpt:

Perhaps the prison inmate and the president could switch places?

"Wall Street Journal:

Democrats-those are members of the president's party-voting in the West Virginia presidential primary gave 40% of their votes to a man whom the Associated Press identified as a federal prison inmate.

Keith Judd is serving time at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas for making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999, the AP reported. With 90% of precincts reported, he had 40.3% of the vote to Mr. Obama's 59.7%

Mr. Judd was leading or had won in at least five of the state's more than 50 counties.

Mr. Obama is not likely to contest West Virginia this fall, much less win it. Still, the results show why Democrats in the state have been so eager to draw distance from the president, and they may signal problems for the president in other parts of the region.

Earlier this month, West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin released a statement saying he was not yet able to endorse either Mr. Obama or the presumed Republican nominee, Mitt Romney.

Sen. Joe Manchin has been similarly noncommittal about the presidential race.

Mr. Judd has run in prior elections-for president in 2008 and mayor of Albuquerque in 2007, for example. For the curious, he has laid out a manifesto of sorts in a filing with the Federal Election Commission that touches on health care, the power of special interests and other matters.

Just kidding."
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